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Is he good in the air? If he is then that's fine with me 'cos that is most definitely something we're missing.

The call from McCarthy should have been either "away" or "'keeper". Did he make any utterance at all? He started to come for it and then went back. The more I look at it the more I see it as the 'keeper's ball. Mind you, he'd have to be brave.

Djenepo gets in some great positions but never finds the right ball.

Every Saints corner has been pants.

And there goes the optimism.

Ludicrous.

If only we had a defence.

Frenetic stuff but Saints giving a good account. Just needs Walcott to get into the game really.

Has the ref forgotten to pack his yellow card?

Let's call that a brave selection there by Ralph. 😐

McCarthy in goal? Oh well.

No chance of that. Pass back to the defence and look to slowly recycle, unless the ball is lost of course. 😁

Are we missing some height up front - and at the back? Am I alone in bemoaning the lack of a Pelle style character?

Still looking bereft of ideas and slow in the attacking third while the midfield and defence always have a mistake waiting to happen. Livramento looks a good buy and made an instant impact today but unless we have some goals in us we'll struggle. Long? Why? We could easily end up with nil points at the end of September. As for the season, well, 40 points looks a long way off.

Have learned today that McCarthy should not be first choice?

What on earth has happened to Armstrong? So poor today.

Tino MOTM already.

Handy subs those.

Ref could have given us a pen just to help try and make a game of it. Would have probably missed anyway. As an attacking force Saints look as sharp as a big wobbly, bobbly thing. We looked ok for 15 minutes or so but then Athletic had the measure of us. Is this performance designed to fool Everton into taking it easy next week?

Shambles. Even Armstrong.

So it was all about the money then. 🤐

Just get rid if in doubt FFS

His ankle was tapped about 3 seconds before the dive mind. 🥴

Oh dear. Best get that sort of mistake out of the way in a friendly.

Southgate says that he chose the penalty takers based on what they've shown in practice. At least it's nice to hear a leader take responsibility.