suewhistle

I agree, and I bloomin' well hope so. Only that when they have been playing well this season they've been a class above anything shown under Puel. All I can say is that we need improvement all round, but as Manchester United and Watford, two ends of the spectrum, have shown just changing the manager doesn't always help when the underlying situation undermines them.

Yes, I'd have preferred Adams starting, the other two benefitting more from not playing the full 90. The only reason I can see is Tella's pace but it would have been better used being closer to Broja. I get excited about new signings: my natural optimism I suppose. But I want to be _really_ excited this summer! 😉

Last chance perhaps? Some largely absent pace? I think Romeu and Armstrong have been looking tired recently: the latter since he came back from injury seems to have lost that burst of speed that took him past players. He's tried it and failed quite a number of times. But certainly they should have come on earlier and our passivity was worrying. I believe Tella was at Arsenal. He's probably one of those players they let go whilst assuring him that he'd make the grade in the professional game "somewhere in the lower divisions".. I think we missed Perraud and Livramento more than we might imagine, but I still don't know why A.Armstrong hasn't had a few more chances off the bench recently. He's not one of the worst forwards we've had to put up with over the years, and I go back to before Dixon and Speedie..

From the Everton-Brentford MBM in The Guardian.. 28m ago18.51 “Why is no-one talking about the Saints being in danger?” emails Chris. “Assume a spanking from Liverpool and they may need to get a final day result away at Leicester (if Burnley win their midweek game at Villa).” Anybody care to reply..?

As opposed to being force fed your opinions? Anyway, how do you know it's shit if you're not interested in it? Plus it engages you enough to comment. Must dash.. I'm off to a motoring forum to tell them I'm not at all interested in Formula 1.

It's to fool them into thinking it's the start of a new season so that they'll be all enthusiastic..

I was reading this thread and wondering when you'd turn up! 🙂

Hmm, equaliser on 6 minutes. What's Villa's defence like compared with ours..? Rhetorical question, please don't answer!

No, I don't know, but they haven't impinged on my consciousness like Doyle, Dibbley, Pearce who seem to have something about them.

I worked it out from the context! I see Wycombe beat MKD in the L1 play-offs tonight: two ex-Saints scoring and 3 in total playing: Tafazolli, Vokes and Gape.

Didn't you used to have a favourite spying tree? Anyway, 0-0 at half time according to Saints twitter.

Ok, I'll give you that!:-)

Ramadan finishes tomorrow, I believe, so let's hope the thought sustains him.

I know there is often a default pessimism amongst Saint's fans, but DT takes it rather too enthusiastically, don't you think? Quite a few Palace fans on the train and around town. Let's hope they're miserable on the train home..

A quick edit is in order, Dr...

I had noticed that there was no match thread but I didn't want to start it because Lord Duckhunter is such a fragile snowflake it might have given him the vapours..:-) I'm going to wear some lucky boxers, in tribute to John Boy Saint..;-) As to the result I rather agree with SNSUN, so if we can manage two halves like the second half against Brighton, and if one of the WPs can wind up Zaha we should be OK.

I've a number of alternative suggestions for next time: turn the sound down, use a dodgy stream in a foreign language (Al Jazeera or a chinese one for least understanding) or even a non-UK one for fewer nauseating Liverpool old boys. The South African one for Brighton - Saints had a player who seemed to know his stuff, no idea who he was.

I should add something more intellectual so, leaving aside the dribbling how cleanly he strikes a ball!

**** me!

You're very kind! Just watched the highlights: some cracking goals and a fair few Saints fans from the sound of it.

So did I. Perhaps somebody is blue, white and yellow colour blind? Or wasn't there? Or drunk?

I suspect keeping Long on was slightly caused by the loss of Livramento and a forced use of a sub. I suspect it was always planned that Tella would be substituted since as we saw he is not fully match fit after his injury. Stuart may not have started as we've all seen that he hasn't been 100% recently. Salisu will make it I reckon, but yesterday showed that there will be some blips along the way: I just wish he had a stronger CB partner to play with. Perhaps he can ask the Imam for dispensation on match days so he can eat and drink properly, as his concentration seems to be lacking at the moment.

Thanks..

This is probably the most interesting group, although I don't recall having seen Small play. All of them do have potential. I like the way Diallo and Smallbone move, surprisingly quick over the short distances that are so important in midfield. The former is still adapting to the Premier and the latter coming back from a very long injury so I haven't given up hope. Armstrong maybe just a confidence thing like Adams when he came to us and Tella has the pace, and I feel a bit more to him than Obafemi. We undoubtedly need fresh blood but I try to maintain a degree of positivity, and I'd hate to be as drip, drip, drip negative as some on here.

Perhaps he means he can't be openly racist, sexist, homophobic and gratuitously offensive?