James

Bree has been terrible. Gives the ball away in seriously dangerous areas.

It's pretty clear McC, Bree, Lyanco Djenepo and Mara are nowhere near the standard required to trouble the top end of the Championship. If, at the very least, this game makes that clear to Martin and Wilcox then that's a positive.

Hardly rushing to judgement. Some of them have been sh*te for years.

Some of these lads are nowhere near good enough. Bree and Lyanco in particular.

Will only be disappointment if the players who are sold aren’t adequately replaced.

Yes, if it's a free then low risk and he had serious potential a few years back. Would have to be in addition rather than instead of Piroe or Stewart.

Think we need a more physical CB next to Jack. His confidence on the ball is perfect for the way RM wants to play though.

Agree that sorting the forward out is key, was the main concern for me along with the CB position (where I don't think we can have Bedders and Stephens, we need one of them alongside a more physical defender or we will get bullied at set pieces). If we lose Adams we need to get someone like Piroe or Ross Stewart who know where the net is at this level. As much as I admire his effort Adam Armstrong is not the answer.

As in winning games and looking dominant after years of being complete sh*te.

He was brilliant last night. Had their full back on toast and I thought it was a big sign of confidence that most of our attacks came down his side despite having Tella on the other flank. If he could sharpen his end product he will be brilliant for us.

Either there is no pleasing some Saints fans or this is a wind up. Last night was the best we've played in years.

Very encouraging. More cutting edge and we will be extremely good this season.

Yep. At what point do we just admit it isn't going to work out for him here...

We essentially aren't playing a striker. Armstrong totally anonymous.

Would also be absolutely amazed if Lavia played...

God he looks horrendous in that video. Great scouting Saints.

Agree. Given that I'm nervous of getting a result against a glorified League One side it also shows how far off Premier League quality we were last year.

I think the team will be: Baz Manning Janny B Stephens KWP Smallbone JWP Alcaraz Tella Adams Edozie Possibly Arma in for Edozie.

Gutted to see Tino go. Annoying also that all of these protracted summer departures seem to be speeding up on the eve of our opening league game. Fingers crossed that (a) we aren’t too disrupted/have enough to put away some of these early teams and (b) we have replacements lined up ready to go. As West Ham are finding, once everyone knows you’ve got cash burning a hole in your pocket then suddenly the price goes up and a few more games go by before they are in the door/up to match speed with a new team..

Isn’t this TacticallyMatt guy just a BS merchant anyway?

Yep - next step in the Liverpool play book is Klopp encouraging the player to go on strike...

The way that the Liverpool based journos decry our player valuations whilst Liverpool themselves are pocketing overinflated fees from Saudi for their castoffs is just weird. Smacks of a completely entitled club. Didn't see them complaining when they pocketed £25 million for Rhian Brewster despite him barely setting foot on the pitch but suppose that's OK as he is from the mighty Liverpool.

Yeah, I mean one way to "free" him is to stop making such low ball offers.

I think we need to move for Piroe. Sounds like Leeds interested too so getting him also takes him away from a potential promotion rival. We desperately need a striker and RM knows him well.

If by injured you mean bottling it then yes.