SouSaint

What an absolute mess.

That was actually a blessing on Saturday. It meant none of that noddy "we support our local team" shite was chanted at an away support that is mainly made up of Mancs.

RM is out of his depth at this level I'm afraid. As are the owners. Embarrassing season ahead.

Without Ramsdale we'd have conceded 5 here. Jack Stephens and Bednarek were deemed surplus to requirements two summers ago, it's an absolute joke that both appear to be our first choice CBs.

Absolutely shocking defending for both goals. We are going to get battered against this bang average Utd side.

Yeah, Martin's style of play is going to see us absolutely embarrassed this season. Absolutely shocking defending, shocking defensive recruitment this summer.

Championship standard CBs unfortunately. They're all over the place.

I hope Armstrong/BBD aren't playing as wide as they were last weekend or Brentford CBs will have their easiest game of the season.

Edwards has also looked very suspect.

That would be a weird celebration.

Wood looks as bad as he did when we thrashed Swansea last season.

I wasn't his biggest fan but it feels like that Archer and BBD are downgrades as things stand. I hope they both prove me wrong but cheap options come to mind.

It was loud at the beginning of both halves but performance on the pitch made it go a bit stale, shame about the other 20,000 fans who'd rather sit there in complete silence though.

The formation yesterday was a weird one. The two forwards playing as wide men ensured the Forest CBs had an easy day. I'm not sure what the thinking was behind it but hopefully that will be binned off pretty quickly.

Did he even touch the ball?

Yep, it's going to be an embarrassing season unless something changes quickly over the last few days of the window. Edozie, Smallbone, Stephens, McCarthy and Aribo should be nowhere near a Premier League squad.

It's going to be a very long season.

There isn't even a pass to make there. I've got no idea what he's seen there. He should never have got a new contract, he was 3rd choice for most of last season. It is neglect from the club to not sign a goalkeeper after the shocker of a preseason he had.

The warning signs were there all fucking preseason and the club haven't acted. Failure of a transfer window starting with that clown in goal in a Premier League game.

It does surprise me that we've not looked to improve our starting CB options considering how many goals we conceded last season against lesser opposition. It's hard to see us getting anything today, I just hope there's some hope and we don't get absolutely thrashed.

Useless twats.

Not a single minute for Lallana/Stewart this pre-season then.

That seems good value when you consider what we paid in transfer fee plus wages for the League One standard Bazunu.

It's 10% or 3,000 to the away side for the Premier League. Football League was a minimum of 5% of the capacity. I hope we've capped it at 3,000 as I believe we were actually giving out 3,400 last time out in this league.

Jesus, what a goal from Lazio.