The Kraken

No surprise that Peter Walton agrees with the VAR decision. Such an utterly pointless man.

Yeah, all Saints players (apart from Moi) did well but Armstrong stood out, looked very busy and set up Aribo’s header. Mara seems like a class act, hopefully he’s up to speed and able to start soon. McTominay is really not that good and got exposed for what he is today. To be fair, Lavia was excellent, such a cool head and so often in the right place. We are definitely missing a clinical striker. Adams does a job but today showed what he about, gets in good positions but not able to finish. I get the feeling our transfer business is done and we will end up being overly reliant on players like Aribo, Mara, and the Armstrongs for goals from behind a lone striker.

A game when we’ve looked really good defensively, really good going forward, but just not clinical enough to even get the ball on target. De Gea really hasn’t been made to work, despite us dominating large parts of the game.

Definitely one of those that if the ref had given the pen, VAR wouldn’t have overturned it.

Che Adams has got himself into some really good positions but made a Horlicks of it every time.

Hasn’t been a good second half at all, that goal,was coming. Need to freshen things up a bit, but not too many options on the bench.

Saints have done well but I feel like Man United haven’t yet got themselves out of first gear. Expecting a sterner test of it second half, hopefully our lads can pinch a goal and hold strong at the back.

To be fair to Djenepo, he’s so far had an excellent game. He’s defended well but has obviously been given instruction to not bomb forward too much. Armstrong has also looked quite lively. Moi has been anonymous again.

Wtf just happened?!?!

Concerned that we often look outnumbered when United are on the break. I do like the look of ABK though.

The pitch is an absolute shocker. Looks worse than it was for the Leeds game, and it was bad then. Looks a bit hard and bobbly as well. Very rare for a Southampton pitch to look so bad, the Dell and St Mary’s have had excellent surfaces for many years now.

There’s a decent series going at the moment about Palace, it only focuses on their academy system and each series follows the fortunes of a few kids. It’s quite interesting and a decent watch.

Not sure if that’s indicative of good in game decision making, or that he picks the wrong side in the first place.

No it isn’t.

Personally, I think it’s best all kept in one thread. That said, I think a separate MOTM vote poll should be done for each match, and there shouldn’t be any need for mod involvement in that one, it just needs any random user to start the poll up properly after the game. I’ll even say that I’ll incentivise it by keeping a running total of the winner(s) each week so that, by season’s end, we can have an alternative player of the season award. And, as long as I’m around at watching the game, I’m happy to set up the MOTM poll (if I’m not around I’m sure someone else can do it).

That is good news 👍 Its a long recovery yet but very encouraging signs, kudos to the lad and best wishes for his further recuperation.

It was very passive aggressive indeed. And, despite many people watching the game via a stream these days, it still happens! During the Leeds game I remember someone got very shirty about all of the negative comments in the first half and came out with “it must be very different actually down here at the ground rather than for those who can’t even be bothered to leave their own house”.

The thinking must surely be that Che didn’t train most of last week so needs the run out.

He made a prat of himself yet again by starting a James Garner transfer thread which then got locked by the mods. MLG has been hiding/sulking since, though a quick check shows he’s still logging on, he’s just a bit too moody or embarrassed to post at the moment.

Thanks, Ill definitely do that 🤙 It would seem a bit daft IMO to get an RB over a LB, but it’s their choice and I’m sure they know what they’re doing.

Why? We’ve already got a good RB, and hopefully Tino will make a full recovery. We don’t currently have a starting LB, who knows when Perraud will be back. And, last season, Ralph often preferred a right back playing at LB over Perraud.

I think I read it on fantasy scout website, they publish on Friday and he was down as out with a knock. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/team-news/

Fairly sure Chelsea said the day before the game that Broja wouldn’t be involved due to a knock.

I’d hazard a guess that that’s exactly their point.