hypochondriac

Definitely need to work on our corners. Coukd do with some height to attack them at least.

Needs must. If he stays he will likely be a bit part player. We need a guaranteed starter to compete with Aribo. We probably can't afford to keep both and he's our most saleable asset.

I thought we looked great today. Pretty bummed out we took off Sugawara who looked brilliant. No idea why we played Edozie. Bereton Diaz was a nuisance which I like. Still think we need some more quality in attacking areas and McCarthy needs to replaced ASAP.

There was but we had very little balls slipped through to the strikers. Quite a lot of pot shots that were blocked. We needed a bit of ski or magic to unlock something. I was surprised Alcaraz didn't get longer.

Not sure I agree. We had zero cutting edge today despite Newcastle's defence being decent.

I'm thoroughly fed up of shit keepers costing us points. It's not difficult. Bring in a keeper now!

Personally I'd have preferred it to be 11vs11 for more of the game to see how we shaped up. It's difficult to tell when you play against 10.

One thing this game does highlight is the worry I had before the game about Martin saying he doesn't care about positions. What this means is we have effectively no one up front and we lose the goal threat.

This result is on the senior management team at saints. We've known we needed a keeper for weeks and maybe even months. It's probably the easiest position to get someone half decent for.

If we go down by a point we could point to this game and say that McCarthy has cost us.

There we go. McCarthy...

Sugawara is just class.

It's quite noticeable how we have no central focal point up front.

They weren't conned. If one of our players did that I'd be pissed off at them for giving the ref a reason to send him off.

Don't lunge forward with your head then. Completely the Newcastle players fault.

Commentators can fuck off. You move your head forward and touch someone else then it's a red card. Everyone knows that.

Still time for it to be crap! Please kwp stay this season. We won't get anyone half as good.

Early days but we've been the better team so far.

What do we want from today? Obviously some points would be the first thing but if we can't manage that, I want a performance to be proud of, some promising passages of play, looking dangerous in attack and showing that we can compete with these players in this league. If we can't have any of that then just lose by one goal so we aren't bottom!

I was under the impression that woods was a proper backup option so didn't pay much attention to him. If he's the first one on following injuries or tactical changes then I'm concerned.

Team exactly as predicted. Interesting no Edwards or Charles on the bench. Good to see Alcaraz there.

Maybe. Will be interesting to see how he does this year.

Armstrong THB Downes Aribo I'd say they've all improved over the season albeit it was in a level below where some of the other people were previously playing. By all accounts Woods played the best football of his career under Martin.

Well it depends what you mean by worse and how you value championship records compared to Premier league ones. Adams scored more goals in the championship at 22 but the goals to games ratio was slightly lower than Archer achieved in the championship for arguably a worse team at age 20. It's unknown how many Archer could have scored had he been playing regularly in the championship at 22 but I expect it would have been a fair amount given what he achieved two years previously but I accept that's speculation. Adams score 4,5,7 and 9 for us in the prem. I feel confident that Archer could get similar numbers gi en that he got 4 last year at a younger age than Adams did. In fact if you want to get geeky about it, their goals to game ratio at the same age are strikingly similar except that Archer has played less games overall than Che although Archer has played an entire Premier league season, something that Che had not done at that point.