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Are Saints going to make any effort at all? This lot don't look ready for a relegation fight at all.

Being offside from that free kick is criminal.

It's almost as if Saints go into these sort of games without ever believing they can win.

Liverpool offer an example of composure & finishing in the final third. That is basically the difference.

Too easy for 'em.

Call that defence?

Just one more crazy result required today then.

If the plan is to outscore the opposition let's be a bit more clinical to help ease the tension a bit.

Turned that half around nicely but still almost managed to undo the good work. I think we can predict the 2nd half now. Sit deep. Invite pressure. Drop at least 2 points.

Powder puff defending in the 6 yard box again then.

It's getting a bit much when we need ITKs yo tell us how ITK other ITKs are.

Is that 5 games unbeaten now?positively>

More home points dropped means that relegation is becoming ever more probable. Despite all that possession we hardly troubled their goal at all. Not good enough.

Playing for a draw already then?

Given the league position and recent form I'm surprised that anyone decent would be looking at a move to Saints anyway. It was always going to be a tricky window.

I was undecided. I hated the way that Saints ended up playing last season but I'd have been ok with Puel staying on if no decent replacement was available.

In just a few days we'll have a better idea of what this season holds. I'm feeling pessimistic in that I'm not sure the squad has the stomach for a relegation fight. Should relegation happen it'll depend on the fallout. It would be the height of incompetence to get relegated with this squad and I suspect things would get pretty nasty. As it is, should Saints survive in the Premiership, there are a lot of questions to answer.

How long are games going to last once VAR gets introduced more widely?

Same old story apart from conceding a late equaliser. Just.

Has Carillo been sent on to add more height to the defence?

Game is starting to sound familiar.

Then wait for Forster to have a MotM performance against Saints.

Is it just that Puel has better players at his disposal this season or that he learned a lot about the Premiership last season? His Leicester team seem to have a very different attitude to attack than we saw at Saints.

Defence is a shambles

It's good to see that others have at last come to the conclusion that the only way to really protest is by not turning up. I'm actually conflicted by this form of action because Saints have been my team since 1963 and I've supported them through thick & thin ever since. But recently something has changed. Is it me or the club or the Premiership or FIFA? Not sure but there is no way that I'm paying money to watch a team that is clueless and seemingly without fight. Money is either destroying football or my love of it.