The Kraken

Mara in absolute slow motion though getting dispossessed.

Absolute pathetic defending. Yet again.

Yep, but their player didn’t seem to appeal it at all.

Che running away celebrating like he meant it 🤣

Yeah but I’m astounded by it nonetheless

I’m not sure what you’re not getting. Apart from not being able to read properly.

Not the same thing. He said we wouldn’t be any worse off position wise, not we’d “definitely” be above Martin’s team, as you put it. Quite a difference between the two.

I’ve only read this thread once but I don’t think I’ve seen anybody say that. Who has said it?

Yes, my mistake. He started against West Brom, an excellent 2-0 away win. Then he was on the bench for the next game, a defeat to Hull. Then regained his place against the following game in the home defeat to Millwall.

It’s close but we’d gone off the boil two or three games before Stephens got his place back. He was actually on the bench for a lot longer than I remembered. He started in a draw against Norwich then was dropped again. We lost against Bristol and Hull, then he got his place back against Millwall (which we lost). Since that Millwall game our form has been LWWDLD. The three games before that were LWL.

Who has done this?

Duckie will be disappointed, Lego head has had his barnet chopped.

Fixed it for you.

Absolute fucking twats. Get the free kick in the box!

Unlucky Joe.

That’s a sitter, surely? Terrible miss.

TBF, for every Manning and Smallbone there’s a Stephens and a Bazunu.

Well that’s just bloody silly.

All rowing is backwards isn’t it?

The fact one has to go back to last season to highlight a “how did he save that?” Moment kind of says it all. He just really doesn’t make enough saves. Antti Niemi seemed to make at least one worldly a game, Baz seems a one a season man.

Get him behind the concourse bar and get those beers in the customers hands faster ffs. Cortese promised this before and it never happened; get on it Jase.

If he's resigned he'll be liable to the notice period terms of his contract. I imagine he's on a pretty long notice period otherwise Man United wouldn't have just offered a year's salary. United seem to think they're abiding by the terms of the contract, Saints seem to disagree. It's all speculation of course. But I can see the club dragging it's heels over this and having him "work" his full notice period.

Russ Martin in his post match interview said if we win all our remaining games we’ll end up on 98 points and no team has ever not got promoted with that total.

First goal. Poor quality photo but you can see that Bazunu hasn’t jumped, if anything he’s crouched down making himself smaller. Ok it was a great strike but I think the keeper has to do better. Second goal, went through the defenders legs and not too far from the far post. I think a better keeper than Bazunu reacts quicker to it but in general I find it hard to totally blame him for this one given it went through the defender. Although it’s another one low down on his left side which we know he struggles with. Third goal, I definitely blame Brooks, Rothwell and Smallbone for ball watching. But seeing this angle, Bazunu’s starting position is terrible, there’s only one place the ball can go from there where it’s a danger and Bazunu is nowhere near it.

Because he has an absolute fascination with playing all three of Stephens, Bednarek and THB and will compromise formations to get it to work. In fairness it wasn’t the formation that did for us today IMO, just some basic errors and sloppy play.