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Ralph needs to go. He has no clue I'm afraid. Another embarrassing shit show. Spurs could run riot here.

Why do we continually give away such soft goals?

Are we creating and missing chances then?

Well we conceded two soft goals already with this formation to be fair so it can't be any worse.

Is anyone other than Ralph surprised? He's just gone for extreme measures to try to stop the goals going in - trouble is, it doesn't work for us.

Are we going o let Spurs stroll around in the sun or are we going to get at them and have a right go!

Ralph continues to be an enigma - he continues to baffle with his decisions.

Unfortunately, that was probably our good half. If Spurs get another early in the second half it could get messy.

The new coaches have done a good job then 🙂

With two goals from free headers I'm surprised Ralph didn't immediately sub one of the centre backs and bring on Kotchap. Hope to see him at start of second half.

Ralph going for more records.

Bring on the big German.

3 centre backs and we still can't defend crosses.

80 minutes - it only took a few didn't it!

Who scored for Spurs?

Normal service resumed I see -as you were. We love giving away leads don't we!

Has Conte burst a blood vessel yet?

How are we looking? Composed or panic stricken?

Isn't Valery one of the three at the back with KWP and Djenepo as wing backs?

Not your fault.

Speed and quick build up play - I must have missed that 🙂

Palace looking ordinary without Gallagher pulling the strings.

Just watched a podcast hosted by a Spurs guy featuring a pundit (fan) called Michael Bridges plus a Spurs fan named Jason. This last guy said that Saints were the best side he saw at their place last season, said they couldn't get near to us and even said we were the best since Bayern Munich!. High praise but it begs the question where did that side and that style of football go - it just vanished into thin air. Why can we not seem to get anywhere close to those levels? I appreciate it is harder for teams like us to maintain and we were playing high energy, press football but it's so frustrating to see where we've fallen to from those dizzy heights of performance level. Ok, maybe it was a one-off and everything clicked into gear but you'd think we'd be able to get some form of consistency but it seems to be feast or famine under Ralph - let's hope for more feasting this season.

Only if you had any expectations of him when he signed. He's been pretty much what I thought he'd be so my only disappointment was that our management contrived to give him such a huge contract.

Not sure about centre back. For me 3 at the back does not work and causes us more problems than it solves - it's almost a case of too many cooks where nobody knows their job or takes charge. I think we'd be better with a settled pair at the heart of the defence who could develop a strong partnership and, where each knows his role and trusts the other. Whether that means we need to buy or can build this from our existing squad is the question - maybe try Salisu and ABK. We desperately need a number 10, a tricky midfielder who can carry the ball and dribble round opponents and pick a pass and create more for us plus a striker with experience so not sold on talk of Liam Delap if I'm honest.