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No.

Don't forget the no look pass shortly after to give the ball away and invite Arsenal to attack again instead of clearing it.

I'm more interested in who we're shipping out. So many players who apparently "train well" and don't show up at the weekend that keep getting picked week by week.

Looking at today - we had the players to make a game of it in more matches than we did this season. Sure we'd probably still have been relegated but team selection and tactics have been as bad as I've ever seen across all three managers. We recruited so many players who never got a sniff who might actually have sweated for the shirt.

Story of our season. Some ok bits followed by a spineless capitulation in front of our own goal.

Let's, at least, give them the opportunity to pay for the privilege.

He's got some of the attributes of a really good player. He can pass and drift into space to give options. But only if the other side isn't in his face. As soon as the intensity goes up he's lost. For Martin's style of keepball he is pretty much perfect (hint hint Russ) but you can't play him in a holding midfield role.

The subs have made the difference again. Smallbone loses his man to rifle into the bottom corner.

So long Big Les. You were always better than Martin gave you credit for. Glad we got to see more of you in the second half of the season.

A central defence without THB, Bednarek and Stephens. They said it could never work.

So quick with the updates. Nobody's scooping you today.

That's the injection of pace in midfield we needed.

When we signed him to score the goals to get us out the Championship we had no idea they meant the 25/26 season. Such is the genius of Sport Republic's foresight.

To be fair he applied the common usage of brave so I understand the confusion. Instead of the previous Saints definition that was "blindly doing dumb stuff that doesn't work over and over again".

I think the whole squad has benefited from his coaching and the example he has set. One of the finest exponents of own half walking football we have. Possibly on a par even with Smallbone.

How is that an Arsenal corner?

Really pleased for the lad. He's had a mare with injuries.

Stewart

It's like Peter Parker vs Eddie Brock

Excited to see how this plays out. A young coach with something to prove who has outperformed expectations wherever he has been so far. Couple with a new backroom team to find him the players to make it all work. Welcome, Will!

And to think it only took Saints a few months to coach that into him. Imagine what we could have achieved if he'd been here the whole season.

That's a great finish.

FWIW I hope you dodge this particular bullet.

As y'all may find out if you hire that young progressive Russell Martin.