Dan Johnson

At £7m I think he’s an excellent buy, was expecting £15m! I think he’ll get 10-15 goals in the prem. Seems to fit the Martin mould too, was at Blackburn with Armstrong and Taylor Harwood Bellis (Rothwell too) so we know what kind of character we are buying into. i think he’s an upgrade on Che, time will tell how much of an upgrade

I remember listening on the radio round my next door neighbours, I must have been about 11? can’t remember what radio station it was but they always used to play the piano riff of Bruce Hornsby’s that’s just the way it is at the final whistle 👌 I don’t remember much but I remember it being a must win and celebrating like made when we scored

Only just came back to pre-season, exetended break due to the euros

Lis looks terrible

SAA and Dibling should be breaking into the first team this season, they both look like they're clearly at that level now

Absolutely, you know that if we did give youth a chance last season and it didn't go well, the same people complaining about losing our best youth players now, would be saying "same old saints, took the cheap option"

Allot of harsh comments on Che. In terms of effort, he always gives 100% and you cant really ask for more than that. As an outlet, with his hold up play, he was one of the best, he did the dirty stuff well. His link up play at times last season was superb, he was a big part of the way we played for the majority of the season. We all know his finishing was his downfall, the miss against Middlesbrough and the miss against wolves immediately spring to mind and ultimately that's what he was judged on, however with the rest of his all round play, if he could hit the target more often, he wouldnt have stayed with us anyway, he'd be playing for a bigger club. Good luck to him, I wish him well, he deserves more credit from us as a fan base but ultimately i'm excited to see who he could be replaced by.

Downes and Smallbone both exceptional tonight, their effort on and off the ball won us the game. id love to give Smallbone man of the match for his goal and contribution but Downes was just so so good. shout outs to McCarthy for some good saves and solid keeping. Highlighting how far Bazunu still has to come. Bednarek has been consistently reliable, easily in the top 3-4 performers this season. Armstrong gets the plaudits but so many around him doing great work. really happy with the result. scenes at the end with fans on the bit, especially those goading the West Brom fans was cringingly embarrassing

Jesus, reading through this thread you'd have think we lost 4-0, where on earth has all the negativity come from? Seems allot on here are basing their reaction on their anti RM agenda rather than basing it on the actual performance\game. Its was a good Away performance, in tough conditions. I felt we edged a tight game and I go into Friday allot more confident than before yesterdays game.

hearing this interview and his sky interview, where he talked of players in “preservation mode” and “playing for themselves” and saying “players that will run will start” in the next games I took the statement “we don’t lose 5-0 if jack plays” as more of a reference to Jack Stephens mentality and work ethic than his ability.

Its the players, Russell Martin cant take the blame for Brooks missing an open goal, Adams missing when through 1 on 1 with the keeper, countless chances we've put over the bar or wide in good positions. Not just in this game but in game after game after game...

Tough to read sometimes. All the negativity towards RM and his tactics, I think we go 2-0 BECAUSE of his tactics and it’s back to 2-2 because the players start becoming nervous and completely lose their composure. The amount of times we give the ball away isn’t because of tactics in my opinion. i agree subs can be questionable at times, and I’m not particularly keen on not sticking with the settled back 4 that saw us go on such an incredible unbeaten streak, but allot of the stick is unwarranted

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Found a way to win today, when the performance didn’t deserve it, which is exactly what Ipswich done against us a few weeks back, so I’m chuffed, because up until the winner, it felt like we were finding a way to bloody lose it! the result is obviously hugely more important than the performance at this stage of the season, so let’s keep the focus on the positives, 5 more wins and we’re promoted automatically in my opinion. the way we won might be the most significant thing about today, the results going our way, the last minute winner… the squad will feel the momentum swinging in our favour. freshen the squad up for Tuesday. Brooks, Stephens, aribo and Adam Armstrong all need rests.

Logged on to say the same thing 😄 got to be there to score them I suppose, king of the "Bundle" goal

I’ve felt the Charlie move was inevitable over the last few weeks, his appearances in the league have been restricted to 5-10 minute cameos and with the Rothwell signing adding more competition you had to wonder which player was likely to move on, with Charlie the most likely. £35m option is good money. Gutted it hasn’t worked out as well as we’d all hoped it would this season, it’s allot easier to swallow than it would have been last Summer, though. Amazing to think if Charlie leaves, the only players remaining and born outside of the UK will be Laros, Sulemana, Mara and Bednarek. I wonder if one of the strategies is to buy players from the home nations!?

I bloody love a last minute goal. I can not understand for the life of me, fans that are complaining about them. It’s the best way to win a game!? Surely there’s no better indication of the teams desire and determination than a last minute goal, trying till the very end. Im old enough to remember the Man Utd of the 90s, you just knew they’d always score late because they never gave up, the famous Chmspions League final commentary sticks in my head “can they score, they always score”they never gave up, “Fergie time” it was called back then. i had that same feeling watching us today, attack after attack in that second half, I just knew we’d score. 87th minute winner vs Sheff Wed 97th minute equaliser vs Norwich 94th minute winner vs Plymouth 95th minute winner vs Hull 96th minute equaliser vs Preston 93rd minute winner vs Millwall Some of the football in the second half was just immense to watch, it really was.

Yep, completely agree. 7 Pts from Leeds at home, Stoke away, Rotherham at home. Bitterly disappointed to not take the 3pts today, but I'd have taken that points return from those 3 fixtures at the beginning of the season every day of the week!

Frustrating result, should have won but 7pts out of 9 from the those last 3 games is a decent return. hope the fan who suffered a medical emergency is recovering, very distressing scenes

Hoping we come out of this game with a positive goal difference. 4-0/5-0 I hope 🤞

I’m absolutely gutted After our first 4 league games I really thought we’d turned a corner and found the right man. Im trying to be as pragmatic as possible, the last two defeats and the last 3 goals have all come about through individual mistakes, ordinarily you’d not blame the manager for glaring mistakes made by players. Excluding the mistakes made by Charles/Holgate/Harwood-Bellis for the last 3 goals we’ve conceded, Downes/Smallbone/Manning/KWP/Charles/Harwood-Bellis/Holgate have all given the ball away on multiple other occasions that could and probably should have led to us conceding more! This isn’t by trying to play difficult/intricate passes, we’re talking the inability to play 4/5 yard passes to a team mate and instead playing straight into the oppositions feet or dwelling on the ball for too long. Why is that?? Burns from Ipswich said after the game “It was easy to read where their passes were going, and you saw a lot of the time that they were kicking balls away, off the field or straight to us, because we’re shutting angles that we know they want to play” Is our intensity so poor in training that those angles are open in training but not in games, lulling the mgmt and players into a false sense of security that we have the personnel to play a specific way? Martin is cultivating an environment where he wants us to be “Brave”, individuals mistakes aren’t being punished by the manager if their in-line with how we’re looking to play, but those mistakes are consistently costing us points, so in that context Martin is as culpable for those individuals mistakes as the players, it’s clear mistake’s are indicative of the way Martin is trying to have us play and the environment he’s created. Team selections and substitutions have been questionable and sometimes it’s easy to point at those to berate the manager but we don’t know the ins and outs of players fitnesses/how they’ve been training/their mentality etc so I don’t want to look too much into that. However there is a point to make about selections when it comes to consistently picking players who are making mistakes and cultivating that environment of “bravery” where individuals mistakes go unpunished by the manager. Players who consistently make mistakes should be dropped, no question! lastly, post match interviews, consistently talking absolute bollocks!!! Against Leicester we were an embarrassment, every Saints fan and media publication write up saw it that way too ”Leicester tear through terrible Southampton” ”Leicester thrash woeful Southampton” Yet the manager says “I am proud of the players” And talks about how it was a close game we just didn’t take our chances. Post match interviews have been the biggest red flag for me, scarily so. It’s shown arrogance not bravery. Bravery would be playing his style, putting in good performances, conceding goals we can do little about and losing games by small margins due to the oppositions quality. Arrogance is playing his style, making mistakes, handing the opponents goals and games, refusing to change the style or the personnel to steady the ship, blaming the issues on the clubs past. My last complaint is about intensity, the complete lack of it. This should be the absolute minimum of expectations! I thought when JWP left our intensity might increase and the side ways passing would end however it hasn’t and if anything, JWP has clearly shown that he can play with intensity since he’s left, so the issue is clearly with our group of players and the way they’re being motivated. I’m not calling for Martins head yet, but I’m watching the angry mob from outside my window considering whether I want to join them. Leeds is simply a must win

I’ve been an advocate for Russell Martin, he’d won me over and felt like the long term appointment we needed but that post match interview is a massive red flag!!! What game was he watching!?! We we’re desperately weak in midfield today, Downes and Smallbone both utterly terrible and both extremely weak. We lacked physicality tonight, they both let players run through and past them consistently. Every single player was guilty of misplacing multiple simple 3 yard passes. Edozie looked good going forward but he leaves us so hugely exposed defensively, 3rd goal he didn’t stay tight, let the man run off him and it resulted in a goal. Charles needs to play in midfield as the holding midfielder.

Man of the match again for me today.

Has he signed yet?

JWP to West Ham Stephens Captain Martin confirmed another player coming in opposite direction on loan as part of the JWP agreement, didnt name names but though to be Flynn Downes Expects more to leave in the next 3 weeks Lavia not featuring tomorrow