Saint_clark

Proof if it were needed that we did zero scouting and just relied on Joe Shields. Given how quickly he moved on I'm honestly starting to wonder if he came here just to mug us off and give city a bunch of money for players they didn't want anyway. I will die on this hill - he's got no positive attributes to his game, shows no potential and will never be good enough for the premier league. We've been well and truly ripped off.

Agreed, but the best team in the world can't keep clean sheets regularly with a keeper like Bazunu. We only kept one against City because they couldn't manage a shot on target.

In a transfer window where Henderson, Pope and Leno were all available we got Bazunu and paid more than the other three would have cost us. Up there with Carillo in terms of how bad a transfer this was.

Yahia!!! There's a name. Actually ended up having a decent career in France. I'm sure I remember him playing for Tunisia on TV around 2012 and my mind being blown.

He's not asked to use it. When was the last time you saw him running beyond the defence? He always drops deep or backs into the defence, he's never making runs.

His form has dipped recently and I wondered today if it's a confidence issue from all the talk around the club being about needing a striker in order to stay up. Quite funny that so many people are criticising his finishing for being scuffed now though when one of the thing I said when we signed him was how most of his championship goals seemed to be scuffed into the net, and I got laughed at for it for a long time.

I get why you say that, but having conceded just 11 goals in 20 games with Burn at left back I don't think you can make a case for them having a weak link back there. We're going to have to hope to keep it tight at our end and rely on a bit of magic from someone from range I think. I'd actually probably take 0-0 now and go into the second leg as a one off 90 minutes (plus pens).

The only saving grace this season is that it won't take much improvement to get out of it with a number of teams struggling, could be a very low amount of points required to stay up.

Gazzaniga showed more potential when he first came. Even Bialkowski looked better.

Saved it. He reacts late, gets a hand to it and doesn't keep it out. If his reactions were better and he wasn't so limp wristed he'd have saved it.

I was wary of Cabellero going in but actually thinking about it out defence has restricted the opposition to relatively few shots on targets in the last few games, so maybe you're right that getting him in to organise the back line further will make up for his lack of agility.

We'll progress in the cup either side of another loss in the league, I don't doubt it.

Indeed, Ollie Watkins goal today moves him one ahead of *checks* Che Adams and equal with *checks* James ward prowse. It doesn't matter who we sign if we go all season with Bazunu in goal - we will go down.

We can improve but if I had to pick one position to improve this window it would be keeper. With a better keeper we'd have 7-8 more points this season and be in 12th-13th.

Course it can, we can still be shit but at a lower level.

50% overall win record if you take out the Liverpool game and this one though.

McCarthy would every now and then actually make a save you didn't expect him to. As limited as he was he's a better option for right now. We're halfway through the season and I can't remember Bazunu ever making any kind of positive impact on the game. Every other team in this league will have had a game where they can say "bloody hell our keeper kept us in that". We don't.

100%. I'm not that concerned about going forward, we have enough goals in our side to avoid relegation. But Bazunu doesn't save anything that isn't straight at him - and sometimes concedes even those.

What happened to waiting until the play develops!?!?

Only 4 minutes added on? There was that amount for the VAR decision alone 😂

With how quick Martinez has been off his line all game we STILL try to play the ball over the top close to the box.

Can see Jones after the game already, "not being funny but this team has been losing games at home long before I came here".

With the other fixtures this weekend being between relegation candidates it feels like a defining weekend where a divide will begin to appear.

Not a great first involvement from Orsic.

I'm getting pretty fucking sick of Saints babysitting this useless waste of space.