SaintBobby

Excellent stuff. That blistering spell in the first half was beautiful to watch. Nerd/trivia question - have we ever scored 4 goals in as few as 8 minutes before?

I’m not confident that SR will make a good decision. I’m not even confident they’ll make a remotely sane decision.

Excellent player. Even more exciting to watch. Easily our best player at the moment. This might be that he’s our only player determined to get forward fast at every chance though!

Interesting. But that’s probably beyond us. We must be heavy odds against to even make the play offs now. I can see the temptation by the board to just limp into, say, 12th place from here.

Pleased with the win, obviously. 4/10 Performance though. Maybe 5.

I'm not usually the trigger-happy type, but Still has to go. 2 wins and we are about 1/3 of the way through the season. That's pitiful. The performances have been poor but the standout issue for me is that there is no obvious strategy for how we are going to score goals. Ball over the top? Storm down the wings and pull the ball back into the box? Flood the box? Take your pick...but Still appears not to have picked at all. It's hapless and directionless. I think we managed one shot on target yesterday. That's risible. Another sign that things aren't right is giving Stephens a massive contract extension and the armband and the dropping him. I would have plumped for the latter - but to do both is nuts.

Bemused this was only £8m-£10m. Absolute steal.

Still have PTSD from that one. Tonight I just nearly died of boredom.

Pretty abysmal. Disjointed and error prone. Upsides? Hmm…does Fernandes starting make it a bit less likely we are selling him? Ok…that’s a bit of a reach, maybe. Other upside for me was Ryan Fraser. Very good again. I’m thinking he should be in the starting XI but confess I have no idea where I’d play him (right back?)

I guess add in Archer. But I’m not wildly impressed.

10000%

He then went on to say that in our last two cup games against Northampton, Saints had won both “respectively”!

God, that was dire. We just aren’t the same team without Bazunu and Stephens! 😃😂

Bit odd on the Ross Stewart thing. Not mentioned in commentary yet. Mind you, the commentator is useless.

He was excellent today. Very good with the ball at his feet too. I'm content that he's our default No 1 keeper for the season.

Obviously a great way to win. But that whole 3 at the back thing...wtf? In the closing stages, we finally seemed to go 4-2-3-1 which worked with Fraser at RB (although it might have been closer to 4-2-4 by the final minutes).

Well, that was boring.

Unreal lifeline for Ipswich

Not a great game this. But wow do Ipswich look poor over the first 60 minutes.

The Wade prediction machine is back. Awesome.

The Saints Marching site is all just AI generated so reads like some foreign language tortuously translated into English

Isn't that just goals conceded to shots saved? I don't think that's a complete picture. It's like only measuring a team on xG. He definitely isn't the worst keeper in the division.

I think I'd give Bazunu about 7/10 at Championship level. Not great, but not awful. You probably need a lot of 8s and 9s in your starting XI to get promoted. But there's a trade off here....it's potentially very expensive to get a better keeper and that cash might be better spent elsewhere on the pitch. I'm in two minds, but am not hostile to starting with him overall.

Am I the only one who thinks Bazunu might just be okay as our number 1? I mean I'm not totally convinced and some of his errors are seared into my soul - but he has looked great in a couple of friendlies and is an international goalkeeper. Perhaps I am just trying to be a "bed drier"?

Basically agree - it's a domino effect. Still, even within those constraints we sometimes seem on the slowish side.