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We forced them back to their keeper then, but we still had seven players level with the penalty area. And there's the big error they are going to pounce on. Fucking sort it out Saints.

Surely that was offside? Edit - no, it wasn't.

Can't get out of our own half.

What on earth was that from Manning?

It just looks very light on attacking options to me. We do have fit strikers in Downs and Oyekunle, but TE obviously sees them as surplus to requirements today. Not that either of them would be expected to contribute much if they did get on the pitch, but it does restrict our options significantly.

That's a bench that screams "desperate second half retreat" if ever I saw one. Just got to pray we can repeat our first half finishing and get ourselves into a good lead to defend.

It's just mind games. They smuggled him into the luggage hold before taking the video 😉

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That's a bit like saying a F1 driver who starts a race on a new set of soft tyres should be able to maintain that same pace for the full duration of the race.

So what exactly is your point then? Are you suggesting that it's not possible for us to recruit a keeper at least as good as KD was 15 years ago because of our current league status? Because that's what it looks like you're saying.

The red bar corresponds to his rank among the other GKs in the league, so although the save percentage is 60%, he's in the bottom 10% in that ranking This is what PsXG is for (see this post by SaintsBarry74) so the goals prevented stat takes into account the quality of the chance. Again, Baz is right at the bottom of the rankings for this with -3.6, versus +3.48 for Johansson. Only Nathan Baxter at Watford and Josh Griffiths at WBA are even close to him on this metric.

We could revert to a back 4, using Edwards as a traditional RB and play JRob as a winger ahead of him. Got to be better than sticking with the back 3 and playing Fraser as a RWB, surely?

Retired, obviously.

We had a much better keeper when we were in L1.

Probably been posted somewhere on here before, but I have a great deal of respect for Norwich for doing this...

A classic example of the sunken cost fallacy.

It wasn't even that 'great' a save. It was a scuffed shot that any competent keeper at this level should save comfortably, and he just barely managed to get enough contact to turn it onto the post.

Anybody know who this prick is? https://fanbanter.co.uk/brick-smashes-west-brom-fans-coach-window-at-southampton-after-7th-straight-away-defeat/

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Indeed. During our promotion season in 2011/12, Kelvin Davis was 'decent' for the Championship. Probably let in a few too many at his near post but overall saved us a lot more points than he cost us. Baz is so far away from that standard, he can only dream of ever being as good as KD (which he won't).

I didn't even realise Fraser had come on until deep into stoppage time, which kinda shows just how little he contributed.

It was a free header 3 yards out in the centre of the goal, and he didn't even get anywhere near it. Yes there was a player backing into him, but not forcibly enough for it to be considered a foul. By the time the ball hit the back of the net he had just fallen to his knees. Just another example of his total lack of physical stature and command of his box. It was utterly pathetic, and your continued defence of him despite the clear evidence of his inadequacy is starting to look increasingly bizarre.

For their second goal he was so weak - he absolutely should be claiming that. And that run of 3 saves - first one was straight at him, second one was off Manning's boot, only the third one can you claim is a good save.

So - anyone still think we don't need some reinforcements in Jan? After yet another shambolic second half performance after Scienza's batteries have run out, we desperately need some better options off the bench so we don't keep completely surrendering all momentum to the opposition like that.

So may opportunities to get rid of that. What a let off. The WBA co-commentator is at least good comedy value. Sounds like he's won a fan's competition to be there.