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Sorry but this is just way off the mark. Regardless of what he had been told to do, Manning should have realised that Bednarek was going to try and head that ball and had the nous to not try and go for it as well but instead cover the defender. It's just basic common sense defending and has nothing whatsoever to do with tactics.

Anyone else's stream keep switching between the national and local feeds?

That's the most fucking pathetic half-arsed attempt at a shot I think I've ever seen in professional football.

Downes back is great news. KWP out isn't so much.

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He's not been the same every since we signed Brooks and he's not playing so much in his favoured position on the right of a front 3.

Yes. I've learned that we are nowhere near ready to be competing in the PL yet, and it's probably for the best that we don't get promoted this season because we would need to upgrade pretty much our entire squad in the summer to avoid getting utterly humiliated.

Che tries to take a quick throw in... Doesn't even get the ball over the line

Good save by Lumley initially. He's looked decent in his recent appearances.

Just see this out now and don't concede again. Take a 2-0 defeat and take the plaudits for a decent performance, and get this unwanted sideshow over and done with without being humiliated. Best result all round really.

Smallbone gives it away needlessly again. KWP off injured? Oh shit!

Fucksake Smallbone!

Panicked and snatched at it.

Disagree. I've been impressed with his defensive work tonight. A couple of times he's tracked back really well and put in a good block. He's getting stronger and I've no doubt he's going to be a top player eventually (but not for us, sadly).

Massive deflection. Would have been a routine save otherwise.

Bugger.

Very sad news indeed. Never saw him play, but he was manager when I began supporting Saints and that team he had in 1989/90 was a real joy to watch. Rest in Peace.

Calling for Bannon to sort us out is one thing, but a serving MP in the party of government claiming that the president of our biggest ally needs to be kicked out of office for the good of the west is quite another. How the fuck can Sunak even consider letting her keep the whip after that?

Well now, what a bag of shite that was. Millwall were fucking awful and we've gifted them a win. I knew the unbeaten run wouldn't go on forever, but for it to end quite as abruptly as it has is very alarming. 3 defeats out of 4 in the space of two weeks - two of them at home. I'm not completely giving up hope on autos just yet, but it's looking pretty unlikely now unless we can turn things around quickly.

Great save to deny AA.

Ipswich taken the lead again

OK so the two goals conceded today mat well have unique factors not directly related to the presence or not of Downes in midfield, but it's fair to say that with a proper holding midfielder on the pitch, the passages of play that led to those instances may well not have happened. So it may not exactly explain the two goals we've conceded today, but the fact that since he's been injured we've gone from being imperious defensively at home to conceding two in the first 45 minutes in 3 consecutive games. That's not a coincidence. It's also not a coincidence that, since he has been injured, we've looked like a disorganised mess defensively. So my comment was more along the lines of "when is he back so we can start properly dominating teams again and looking more composed, instead of the utter shambles we have been in the last few games without him". But apparently that makes me a dinlow 🙄

Wheels well and truly fallen off. When is Downes back?

And now Thick Lizzie has gone full Trump... https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-blames-deep-state-fox-news-2917840 Liz Truss blames ‘deep state’ for failed premiership in Fox News article In an article for the right-wing US news outlet, the former PM accused radical leftist institutions for sabotaging her premiership