BotleySaint

Assume that's a joke.

Yup. Never gave him the chance he deserved. But we did alright without him. Until recently of course..

Newcastle awful. Their players going through the motions. Body language awful. Almost disinterested.. let's hope they stay that way. We huff and puff but not good enough to make a dent.

Austin gets in the way.....get him off!

Man City next..

Total lack of leaders on the pitch.

We'd be better off with another midfielder in there. Or JWP would probably do a better job up as a striker!

Newcastle are worse than us. But sooner or later we'll slip up and let them in. Starting to wonder if Hughes is the right man.. surely someone could get a bit more out of the players? Try something new.

I'm beginning to feel the same. If Gallagher was that good in training he'd be given a chance. He's obviously not showing enough there and probably needed to go out on loan again to get in the shop window.

He is so slow now, can't hit a ball cleanly, no composure when given a chance. Not sure where it all went wrong for him. Confidence? Fitness? Attitude? Or the odd malaise that affects all strikers who play for us recently.

Every game he is paired with someone different up front. No real opportunity to develop a partnership I guess.

Hardly hanging on. We were the better team over all but unable to create and finish the few chances we did create.

Cardiff scored three? Can anyone see us doing that this season?

We are preparing a £25m January bid.

Been a long time since we had any regular goal threat. We seem to have no idea how to create..

Hopefully he's ok. Looked awful.

I think that myth has been put to bed already this season.

Time to end the two up front experiment. Austin immobile. No threat at all.

Still no-one protecting the defence then! Knife through butter

8 games gone and we've reverted to the failing team of last year (with ings the only exception) and still haven't worked out the best formation and strongest side.

About what they deserve really. Apart from a few long range efforts we've been awful.

I'd say survival is being optimistic. Our record is worse this year than last so far.

Not sure it'll help. I don't believe the squad is good enough mentally or skillwise.

Any glimmers of hope are snuffed out by awful defending. This has to be the most depressing saints team to watch for many many years.

Seriously? Bednarek getting loads of crucial blocks in first half. Guess we don't want defenders that defend...