Viking Saint

If Bertrand is fit, then why is he on the bench???

Given that Danso has played at LB and Cedric is also regarded as cover, you may well be right.....

SOUTHAMPTON They shifted everybody on the final day. Ralph Hasenhuttl has his squad. Am sure Stephens is still here or have I missed something???

Would've taken a point at 12.30pm but felt we were bossing the game before Danso's stupid red turned the second half momentum. OR and JV were outstanding and glad JV finally won a header in the opposition box. Three games unbeaten #WeMarchOn

Dean must've been desperate to give that....

Yep, really can't complain. Rash, reckless, and bloody stupid.

Why are we so much better in the second half of matches???

Long coming on.........

FINALLY!!!!!!

anyone got a decent stream??

Are we ever going to ****ing learn that attackers with the ball need to be shut down and not allowed to run at goal??

You'd think we would have an actual defender who can fill in at LB. How much longer is McQueen out for??

Massive let off...

Apart from Danso being an unknown quantity, I like the look of this. Nothing to lose, let's have a real go at them. Charlie Nicholas on Sky predicting 2-2, I'm going for us to win 2-1

Yep, exactly this, though might chuck Long on the bench

Agree with all you've said, but think it's a case of getting what you pay for. I know he doesn't fit our 'model' per se in terms of age and re-sale value, but felt he would've been an ideal player to organise and marshall our back line, and that the other players around him could've learned a lot off him. As it is, we've bought young, untried, untested to solve our glaring weakness and can only hope.....

Cahill would've been the obvious candidate

I fear the level of expectation on Danso may lead to some on here being disappointed. Fervently hope I'm wrong but we're asking an awful lot of a 20 year old CB whose previous English experience was with MK Dons to step into the hardest position on the pitch to adapt to, potentially against Liverpool next week, and expect he's going to sort out our defensive weaknesses.......

Agree with most of this, but would give Redmond a 6. He kept running, working, and trying to make things happen to the end. Ings no higher than 3, did nothing whatsoever, and while I'm one of the ones who believe's Boufal is worth hanging on to, I didn't even see him when he came on.

and this illustrates perfectly just how far we've fallen.....

I admire your optimism, but we've just been thumped by a team who do nothing but pump the ball long. They didn't have to do anything approaching quality football to beat us comfortably. We have nil leadership on the field and look no better whatsoever to last season. All the talk about RH having a preseason to work with the team looks like it's had zero effect. We still make criminal mistakes in defence at this level and didn't offer much up front again. As soon as we went one down, could you really see us coming back? The body language went to **** and there are no leaders out there. I fear a long, long season beckons.....

Thankfully, my thread has died for the last four minutes. I won't bother looking for another one

Getting embarrassed here. No better than last season whatsoever

Same old, same old

Umbro, not UA