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A good team performance. We lost to ten men a few weeks ago despite being a goal up. Utd have a great record at home and are a top side so controlling the game for long periods and creating the best chances we could have easily lost that one. Bazunu is my man of the match for two moments coming out and clearing and touching Fernandes shot onto the post plus some good blocks. The shape was good and we kept another clean sheet.

Elyonoussie, A Armstrong we're already scraping the bottom. Tella is better than most of the forwards we have been playing. I suggest anybody who wants to have a valid opinion forget historical views and watch him play regularly for Burnley and take a view from that. I am watching him every game that doesn't clash with a Saints game and he is easily one of the top forwards in the Championship. He can play all across the line and spends most of the time coming in off the back post side. When did Elyonoussie or Armstrong ever do that?

Whatever Burnley or Tella want his loan agreement finishes at the end of the season and he reverts to being another Southampton player. If Southampton want to keep him that will probably be the outcome. The more goals he scores the more likely we will keep him.

Another classy goal from Tella. Comes off the wing and gets across the centreback and keeper and heads it in. I still can't believe we didn't bring him back, instead buying for £8m a player that isn't even performing in the B team.

I cannot believe how a few vociferous people on here keep putting McCarthy forward as a solution. When he was playing I got sick and tired of the number of times he chickened out and was beaten at the near post going down early eg Wolves, Arsenal at home and getting his head out of the way as the ball flew over him into the net. I also remember several occasions that Bazunu threw himself and blocked shots at the near post. Good goalkeepers come out upper body towards the ball, Bazunu does, McCarthy feet first. McCarthy slows us down even more and when he plays it out, chips it up to the halfway area invariably to an opponent. At least Bazunu hits it fairly long. The management would be mad to bring back McCarthy. If you want us to be relegated that would just about guarantee it. McCarthy can deal with shots from distance but his faults can't be airbrushed out.

I'd love an £70m world class goalkeeper but we haven't got one. However some people try to spin it we've got three goalkeepers, McCarthy bought from Crystal as a reserve lucky to get in the side due to Forster's form falling off a cliff, Cabellero, a 41 year old brought in as injury cover and 21 years old Bazunu bought as No 1. That's it. There is no transfer window and it is what it is. McCarthy has too many weaknesses to be anything but a reserve. We either support Bazunu or stick our head in the sand and promote a proven failure. It isn't going to happen.

This is nonsense. Of course Bazunu went for the ball as aggressively as he could. He didn't quite reach the ball but Souttar had to be aware that he was going for the ball and could get caught in the face if he attempted to head the ball down so he pulled out to protect himself and headed the ball up onto the top of the crossbar. If Bazunu had got it wrong he could have given away a penalty but he didn't and his action probably gave us three points. McCarthy has never in his whole career managed to nail down a number one position. He has been substandard and a liability in many aspects. He has been really lucky here that he has been given a lucrative extension when really he should have been let go.

I think we need a bit of perspective regarding Bazunu. Anybody who thinks that putting in McCarthy or Cabellero will improve things is living in cloud cuckoo land. Has McCarthy ever saved a penalty because he has made diving the wrong way into an art form. Coming out feet first to avoid getting hurt. Virtually never saving anything on his near post. At least Bazunu shows courage and doesn't pull out at the near post, he had a decent game at Chelsea, was dropped in it by Bednarek at Leeds and in my opinion stopped Souttar from heading the ball down for fear of getting a slap in the face. That's why he hit the bar. I think Bazunu saw he was unchallenged by our non marking defenders and did his best to stop him. Our zonal non marking system is a clusterfuck. For example Elyonoussie allowed Onana to brush him aside at Everton, Just a regular occurrence with different culprits. Our defenders and midfielders tackle like pussies. We need a ruthless attitude. We don't have that. Elyonoussie and many others wave a token foot then pull out. Bazunu is often left isolated. He's young and trying his best. He needs support. His passing statistics have as much to do with players not winning balls or ducking out.

He was obviously trying to get a touch on but the ball was just out of reach. If he had stayed on his line I'm pretty sure Souttar could have got a better look at the ball and put in a better header, It must have caused him a problem judging the header with a hand flashing across his vision at the last second. I think Bazunu saved two points for us with that decision because yet again nobody picked Souttar up.

I thought Elyonoussi opened us up with his awful play almost as much as Madisson. A Armstrong ?????, As for those criticising Bazunu, If he hadn't done that at the end, put off Souttar with his hand at the vital moment. Redknapp and Heskey thought Souttar would have scored if Bazunu hadn't put him off. I'm not sure about Selles, those two substitutions were poor. Towards the end our game management was poor. It was crying out to keep putting the ball into the corners and trapping it there.

At the moment we are bottom of the league taken there by three managers that all regularly picked him. That says more about the managers team selections than some of the misfits regularly picked by them.

Maybe we should be using the new players we have brought in at great expense instead of trying to incorporate them into the most unsuccessful side we've had in years. Saturday's selection was just another clusterfuck and lazy team selection rewarding a lucky win for holding on desperately for the whole second half with an undeserved unchanged side. Stop trying to use Onuachu as a workhorse and get him into the box with the ball. Put Sulemana out right to help with that. After more than six weeks why isn't Orsic superfit or is he just doing routine training. Something wrong there. If he didn't arrive fit then a fitness program needed to be used to get him fit. So get him fit. IMO Bazunu KWP Bella-Kotcha Salisu Perrault, JWP Lavia, Suleman Alcaraz Orsic (S Armstrong), Onuachu. Get the ball up to the byeline and into the box with Onuachu playing up on the centrebacks supported by the two spare with the winger on the ball. We got our best results recently with DCC at centreback so he could play with BC and maybe Salisu at left back. The likes of Elyonoussie AMN etc just drag the level down. Selles selections in the three matches in charge have been far from inspirational even effective. Just more of the same teachers favourites contaminating the team. Picking them and complaining about a lack of energy etc makes no sense at all. absolutely predictable.

McCarthy, Bree, Aribo and Edozie playing.

A successful team is one where the team performance is better than the sum of the parts. If Selles continues his current relationship with the players that could be the result. He, the coaches and the players could come together and raise our level of performance through teamwork. There is no doubt in my mind that whatever the situation with Ralph there was a lack of bonding between Jones, his team and the players. I hope this works and we can get on a run.

I think the interview process should last a bit longer. The positive doubt may act as an incentive to both Selles and the players who want him to have the job to nail a few top performances and hopefully results. Bournemouth did really well with a caretaker but the performances then fell off when he was given a contract. Let him know the contract is his to obtain provided we show that the early performances are no flash in the pan.

It's rumoured that Selles has told a number of players that they won't feature. Who? I've no idea. It may be that DCC and Orsic could be among them.

That team just didn't look right but putting it in a 4-4-2 worked a treat. Let's see where we go from here and what substitutions are made and when. AMN, Bednarek and Elyonoussi can be improved on.

So what the hell is that super gegenpresser!!! Elyonoussi doing there. Can't tackle, shoot, press, doesn't score goals or work hard enough. As for Bednarek.

I just hope I'm wrong that team looks like a clusterfuck, Almost drawn out of a hat. Maybe Selles is a genius or just another overqualified theorist coach.

No it won't just send the gobby ones off quickly, 1,2 maybe three that'll stop it. Just don't reduce below the limit but a further rule would be if the limit was reached and the match abandoned, award a 5-0 win and three points to the winner and also deduct a further three points from the culprits. Then double the deduction if it happens again. The clubs themselves would stamp it out for fear of the penalty especially as it's the top teams that are the biggest culprits.

Personally I'm not prepared to throw the towel in and accept relegation with sixteen games left and just give up and tread water for the rest of the season. I want us to get to it and give it a go to try and stay up however unlikely that seems in the present circumstances.

One conclusion, the leading clubs are all doing it, surrounding the refereee, stopping penalty kicks being taken etc. Solution, dispense with yellow cards. Talk back to the referee and it's an instant red. Surround the referee and they all get red, no ifs or buts. Send a few players off and the clubs will deal with it, as a few hammerings will be the result. Like a lot of things it's the repercussions that bring an end. Anybody see the supporter??? abusing opposition fans after the WHU v Chelsea game. Instantly laid out by a passer by. Anybody who saw that close up will have a new reality. Authorities have to show resolve and just support referees not hang them out to dry when the usual culprits have a whingefest.

I'll give you a clue, your Avatar was supposed to have been involved.

You're obviously not aware of the Bristol Rovers bus story shortly followed by him leaving.