austsaint

True, but I'd much rather Swansea get beaten and maintain the gap. They are certainly well organised tonight, not sitting as deep as we often have when under the cosh - and they have some counter attacking threat.

Maybe he would have - yet against Watford JWP's first goal was a deflection which fell kindly and he had time and took 2 or three touches before "passing" the ball in the net - good finish. Boufal's opportunity was quite different, he ran on to the pass and had defenders around him and pressing; took one touch and had his shot blocked. Perhaps he should have tried to lob the defender.

Your point was perfectly illustrated yesterday! Romeu, Lemina and Hoj more than matching the Spurs midfield - and there was more press than usual.

No, in my book Reed get's a belated chance to redeem himself by booting Pellegrino, appointing someone like Silva and getting 2 or 3 quality players in. If that happens and we are still relegated then Reed will be canned for dithering but he will get some credits for doing something decisive at the 11th hour.

It would give the majority fan base (and probably the players) a huge boost, particularly with a couple of quality signings. Would Silva want to come here though? Would he want to bounce straight back into work so soon after todays events? Big Fat Sam is probably feeling a bit less secure in the Toffee job after this announcement.

That's a fair comment Dodds, even Cortese acknowledged Reed's role in the Club's rise. He's royally stuffed up since Koeman though.

I'm the last person to leap in and defend Glasgow, but the common denominator in the past two seasons decline involves Les Reed - he has to be mentioned when you try to work out how the Club has fallen so far.

You would rather sink into the Championship with Pellegrino?

Has it ever happened? A Manager sacked and re-employed by a rival Club within a week or so?

Wtf!!!!! Get him in the door quick.

But who is going to make that call on Reed and Ralph? Gao?? Who would Gao have to advise him about how to get rid of them and who to replace them with.

Agree - but it also tells you there is quite a bit of mediocrity studded throughout the squad, along with the selection, tactics and substitution blunders. Was it Tadic, Long, Davis, Ward-Prowse starting as our front four last week?

Lemina's ankle injury aside, Pellegrino's "use" of ML and Boufal has angered me more than the rest of his incompetence.

Did you watch Norwich v Chelsea overnight? If you did, you wouldn't be making such a dull comment.

Yes, quite so. In cricket these days, most commentators say nothing, offer no opinion, while the review process goes on. I suppose one of the differences with the Football reviews in these early stages of use, is that the game is often continuing and the 'taters might think they have licence to do the expert stuff. Pity someone in London couldn't have picked up that late show handball goal for Watford the other day!

You've got to hand it to the referee; he's had the balls to call out the theatrics of Chelsea.

Yeah; I mean they are under the cosh in extra time and defending deep, but they do have a lot of pace and skill on the counter - Murphy and Maddison both look likely lads.

Norwich look every bit as good/effective as us judged on tonights performance. Different Manager for us, and 2-3 recruits and it might be a different story.

I mean it would have been the equaliser if not for the great save.

He's having a storming second half! Just created a turnover and set Maddison up for the equaliser. I like him.

I wish you were picking the team! I'd consider bringing Gabbiadini on depending on how Long was playing and the state of the game. Lemina can clearly play a more attacking midfield role if needed.

He's not wrong though - whatever credit Reed is given for two promotions and the signing of players like Mane, Toby, Vic, VVD etc he has ******ed the gloss right down the drain to the point where the Club is inexplicably in relegation trouble. Even if we squeak staying up, Reed's legacy for me will be appointing and maintaining the worst Manager in our history.

The thing is though, there aren't that many Mane's around - he was outstanding and it really sparked Saints for two seasons apart from the time that RK benched him for the lack of the late note. These days we have virtually no pace out wide and no one to head crosses in when Charlie's hurt. Yes, JWP was on hand to score a couple last week but how can you play someone like him out wide and expect pace and width? Or even expect the lad to deliver these highly rated crosses and frees into the box when we don't have anyone to head them in? A player like Walcott would have been ideal to provide the pace, width and skill and give the whole Club an injection of feel good confidence.

I'm uncomfortable with the way your posts have morphed from trolling nonsense to hard-to-argue-with provocation. Quite apart from the points you make Glasgow, I think he should be "let go" in the interests of renewal, fresh thinking and progressive ideas.

The Gabbiadini situation is one of many poor reflections on the Manager - his failure to play our best players regularly, and get the best out of them.