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Agreed. In the last 2 games we’ve also been much more aggressive defending our box. Having a fit Downes really helps with that aspect of our game.

No glasses, just an honest view on both teams. It’s also obvious there is plenty of scope for improvement too, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were to absolutely smash a team before Christmas.

There was a clear gulf in quality between us and Stoke.

Agreed. More goals for us wouldn’t have looked out of place, we sliced through them with ease at times. A fit and firing Stewart looks like the missing piece of the jigsaw.

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Pragmatic is a lot easier to master than dominating possession, hopefully the pain we've gone through will be worth it in the long run

His distribution is as good as any keeper.

Yeah I’ve heard he’s fuming 🙄

Being able to switch between the 2 types of play can only be a good thing.

Interesting that Charles doesn’t make the starting line up, thought he’d be there alongside Downes. Fuck me we need a result today. Come on you Saints!!!!

Out of interest, where is that quote from?

Fingers crossed, I’m waiting on “wish we were Brighton” on SaintsWeb bingo

When it clicks we're gonna piss this league 😉

Nicely put. Good luck with the responses

Yeah, after going one up they all thought whoops, what the fuck are doing here?? Retreat!! Remember the plan lads, stick together.

Ok, on reflection, I’ve no doubt you are a tool and should be nowhere near youth football.

I’m not saying I’m happy with the performances, results, transfer window etc Or if the points we have after 8 games is above or below par. I just think it’s way too soon to pull the trigger on RM. I like the way RM has spoken previously, although you can now see he’s under a bit of stress. Players that have worked with him are generally full of praise and enjoy the football. We’ve also had so much upheaval that maybe failing for a little while the club gets its shit together might not be such a bad thing.

I’m not saying I’m happy with the performances, results, transfer window etc Or if the points we have after 8 games is above or below par. I just think it’s way too soon to pull the trigger on RM. I like the way RM has spoken previously, although you can now see he’s under a bit of stress. Players that have worked with him are generally full of praise and enjoy the football. We’ve also had so much upheaval that maybe failing for a little while the club gets its shit together might not be such a bad thing.

Where have I said I know more than anyone else? I think anyone appointed to a new role needs time.

How do you know that isn’t what happened?? Not saying the execution of the planning was any good but we have no idea when we started to look to this season.

I can’t help what you wrote Badger, maybe you didn’t mean it that way but they be the words you used.

Here you go Rev Saint - HTH

Keep up Badger, not tolerating errors made by school boys makes you "a bit of a tool".

haha I hold a different perspective so I'm a WUM - give me a break. Didn't we stop City from doing the quadruple? Not sure you're making much of a point here. Possibly a little bit bored but I'm a lover not a fighter.

Agreed, the road is a lot rockier than I'd hoped for but equally I'm not massively surprised. Those comparing us with Leicester and Leeds have a point, even though we went down together we were down at Christmas (albeit not mathematically): Leeds and Leicester were fighting much longer than us and so I think the rebuild is greater with us than those 2 teams. Leicester do look really good, I'm not convinced by Leeds, yet.