Jack

Would any of us really be shocked if Ralph went with a back 3/5 again against Leicester? I fear he’s too stubborn to admit defeat with it, even if it’s so obvious to everyone that it doesn’t work

Even KWP looks lost in this formation. Nobody knows what their job is. This is absolutely diabolical. I’m firmly Ralph out, he’s lost the plot by persisting with this

Jesus we’re bad at the back. Bailed out by Big Baz. Back 3/5 is horrible and I can’t believe we’re not a back 4 with 2 holding to protect them

I never want Djenepo to play for us again, horrible player. 2 bobbling hospital passes back to CBs already, horrible cross, first touch is dire. I know he’s playing out of position but shouldn’t be on the pitch

Yep. Deserved every bit of that. Gutless. Been on the beach for weeks

We barely deserve a point from this. Dross.

God we’ve been bad today. Decision making in the middle and final 3rd have been awful.

I’m sure I’m not the first to mention it but why the hell have we gone for an experimental lineup against an awful team? When I saw the lineup, I thought Armstrong at 10, maybe it’ll work. But Smallbone?? Bizarre move. We threw away a goal, lost every 50/50 and let them waste time from the off by giving away those goals. Pathetic. Watford are awful but didn’t have to be any good to beat us today. Fear we’re on the beach already

No there’s a small multi storey at Bedford Place which is spitting distance from Brewdog. Or a street level car park opposite The Bedford pub which always seems to have space when I walk by. Grosvenor square would only be a 5 min walk though, if that

First time at Villa park and it wasn’t a great experience. Trains only every 2 hours so it was heaving, and expensive. Decent beers in the city centre then a pretty miserable hour at Villa Park before getting the train home to avoid another 2 hour wait for the train. Rubbish. Was surprised by our performance and Villa’s to be fair. We were far worse than normal and they were far better.

Anyone else on the 10:17 from Southampton Central? The lads I’m going with are getting the train from London so I’ll be on my tod for the journey up. Would be good to meet for train beers on the way up if anyone fancies it

Right then. Diallo and Djenepo off at HT for me. Romeu and Stu on. Think we’ve got away with it to an extent

I get it in certain situations. But we’re nailed on to finish 8-14th. Cup should be the absolute priority

Nooooo what’s he playing at? Absolute car crash. We’ll lose this comfortably

Evening Standard reporting that Chelsea would let Broja (and the other Tino) go in the summer to fund other business. Maybe we need to encourage him to play shit for the rest of the season to keep the cost down

Ralph’s said in the presser it’s a good chance to rotate. Hope he’s bluffing too an extent and the disruption is minimal

Cresswell looked like he took a good knock yesterday, tweaked his groin in a challenge and they haven’t got LB cover really. That’ll be where we can hurt them, getting the full backs up the pitch as much as possible. Antonio looked knackered yesterday as well, they may rest him

I really hope not. We got away with it vs Swansea and Coventry, WHU are too good not to put us away if we mess around. Like you say, hopefully he’s learnt. It’d be a crime to throw this one given it’s our best chance of winning something and euro qualification

Full strength, unchanged for me. Rotate a few for Villa if needed. We should be putting absolutely everything into the cup run now that we’re safely mid table but way short of Euro qualification

On Newcastle, I think the stars have aligned for them. A few new faces gave them a boost on the training ground when they got the cash injection and it coincided with the best run of fixtures you could ask for. Their 4 wins: Leeds A 0-1 - Leeds have been dross for weeks Everton H 3-1 - we’ve seen Everton’s away form for ourselves, one of the easiest fixtures on the calendar. Set on their way by an awful wall for Tripper FK Villa H 1-0 - Villa in terrible form too, lucky deflected FK from Trippier Brentford A 0-2 - played 80 mins against 10 men, put on a plate for them And 1-1 draws with Watford H, and West Ham A amongst that. It’s a good run but it’s all gone their way. Amusingly, their shit £25m striker is still shit and hasn’t scored, their star man has got injured, Targett tbf has been 6-7/10 every week. Burn has given them some more presence at the back. I still think they’ll lose plenty of games but sadly they’ve done enough to stay up

Stupid but deserved red for Brentford. Really poor standard this, they both look like championship sides. Come on the Bees

We see it time and time again with Saints, and it’s no wonder so many players’ form tails off when they leave. Those sides mentioned have higher profile players on bigger wages, and are possibly more skilful individuals, but it means nothing if the work ethic and knowledge/lack of a system they’re trying to implement isn’t right. All credit to Ralph.

They rightly bigged up Romeu and Stu on sky, but KWP was absolutely outstanding again. He’s a top player.

Yeah, for failing to challenge for a title. Levy has always seen Spurs as bigger and better than they are.

Leeds are a mad side to watch. So reckless defensively. Looking forward to going to Elland Road in a few weeks