coalman

Looking at the positives from this. No Stephens for three games AND Ten Hag gets to say Man United have turned a corner to get another 5 games in charge.

Has Garnacho stopped rolling yet?

(Bruno) Fernandes gets his regulation yellow for kicking the ball away

Of the 5 we've conceded this season at least 3 have been self inflicted. We've dropped 2 points so far as a result. There is a time to put your foot through the ball and we need our midfielders to turn into space when it's there rather than passing back into the danger zone. A pre-requisite for any player in midfield has to be finding pockets of space and being able to play on the half turn.

8/10 Ramsdale took it from a 6 to an 8. We're stronger in every department. But still some doubts over who is going to score the goals to keep us up.

The lad has a genuine shout of making himself England number one. Can't believe we've pulled this off.

It would make a nice change not to be desperately phoning around our 5th and 6th choices on the last day of the window.

I'm in danger of wearing out my Ctrl and R keys waiting for news. Please please please please please....

But is he injured enough to for Saints to go for him?

One thing about Saints is we're a good place for a goalkeeper to look good due to our world class ability to give up clear cut chances. Admittedly you're probably also getting more hospital passes here than at any other club.

Why are you asking me? I'm just posting a philosophical point about the contradiction inherent in arguing about intolerance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I'd hope we'd have learned our lesson from last season over bringing in too many midfielders. For the the love of all that's holy, Saints, get a striker.

Fucking hell. I'd have been happy to get him on loan. Well done Saints for getting him for reals

Oh my. That's a thing of beauty

You start to wonder if there are payment clauses which kick in when he has attended enough team training sessions.

Our goalkeeping coaches are world class at training the good habits out and playing as part of suicidal defensive possession unit is a surefire way to crush whatever confidence they arrive with.

It's a classic Saints season. Start slow in the league, crush an opponent in the cup and build momentum before surviving by the skin of our teeth. Or start slow in the league, get outplayed by lower league opposition in the cup and set our sights on being relegated with 5 games left. Something like that anyway...

Defender didn't get the ball. Did go through the back of the man. Penalty all day long. The attacker has every right to get his body between the defender and the ball. The only thing not in Stu's favour was he had his arm up trying to pull the defender out of the way.

I think the problem is the other 10 players aren't used to playing in Trent's quarterback system. We don't have wide receivers running the right channels and our linebackers aren't blocking their zones.

Stop Trentwanking in midfield. Play Foden to his strengths. Have width on the left. Give Kane support or pick a different player. And for fucks sake move the ball quickly and stop standing off opponents. Picking Alexander-Arnold in midfield reminds me of the dark days where Elyounoussi was undroppable. It's an international tournament - we can't afford to play a man down. Lest there be any fucking doubt - the second you want to play someone at quarterback (a position from a completely different sport) you should probably compose a long and detailed apology to hand in with your resignation from being a football manager.

It seems straightforward. Drop Trent. Play Foden in the middle. Play Palmer on the left.

Even Nathan Jones couldn't make this group of players look thus bad. There, I said it

We should try Trent in midfield. Only his passing range can unlock defences. No, wait..

Cole Palmer has to be feeling pretty hard done by here.