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Salisu, Redmond and Ings on the bench!

Maupay misses a pen for Brighton and goes off with a hamstring injury not long after. Wish we could play Liverpool at the moment, bare bones.

17 for me too

No penalty was definitely the right decision for me, March clearly gets the ball. Good for Saints too, keeping us above Villa. Keown adamant it was a pen on the commentary. I think he’s a terrible pundit/commentator.

Castagne or Justin at Leicester?

Nice to hear on the Ralph thread (Kicker Interview) that Danny Ings is looking good for just the 4 week recovery. Would mean he could be back for the Brighton away game or would he still need to work up match fitness from that point?

MOTD saying our last game on a Friday night was the 0-9, just so they could squeeze in another reference. Guess we didn’t win 3-0 at Carrow Road on a Friday night in June then, I must be mistaken?

I agree we should be giving Theo the chance to impress up top with Adams for this one. He's not exactly started with a bang, but did assist Jannick and won one of Prowsey's free kicks against Villa. I'm intrigued to see how he would do further forward in our system and I don't think Long or Obafemi have shown enough so far this season to justify selection. Either would be a good option against tiring legs though later on. I fancy us to get a draw in this one. Would have been very confident of a win given our current form if we hadn't run into all these injuries. As many have said already, the LB position is a particular area of concern. Especially if our back up Vokins isn't available either. Wilson and ASM will definitely cause us problems. Hopefully they continue with a negative tactical approach and so they don't get too much of the ball. It would also be nice to hear from Ralph after this game to confirm all went as planned with the elective surgery on Ings. If it ended up being just 4 weeks that would be a massive let off. Sounds more likely to be 6 weeks plus time to get back up to speed, which could mean a January return?

Do you think he’s another Boufal?

He did look like the player we want him to be in the first half against Spurs, but other than that he's been largely ineffective. Very good goal against WBA though, he only scores special goals. So much potential.

I’m sold, get it done Saints!

Do we think Grujic would solve our number 6 problems? Is he good enough to replace PEH?

Damn, this is how desperate I am for a signing! My bad.

I recently signed up for 50% off. So £29.99 for the year, extra month free to cover the ‘off season’. Figured I’d see what all the fuss was about and the recent free to read article on Ralph’s managerial career peaked my interest. I’ve read back a few of Carl Anka’s Saints articles, really enjoyable and I was looking forward to him covering Saints this season. Hopefully Dan fills his shoes well.

KWP looked pretty fast after giving the ball away against Bompey and somehow getting back to block what looked like a certain goal

Agree this is a really good signing at a very reasonable price, especially considering the fee received for Targett. Bertrand was circa £10m before money got silly in football, he may have played a CL final (by default) but was still struggling to consistently perform for Villa on loan and was never in Chelsea’s long term plans. Felt like a gamble on a big club squad player at the time, one which worked out better than we could have ever hoped really! To buy a promising English player with 6 months experience working with our squad (Ralph often mentions it takes much more time to get up to speed with his system), with lots of potential to improve for £12m in 2020 is a no brainer. He looked excellent after lock down and I’m very pleased we have sorted out the shambles at RB. Valery showed some potential but doesn’t have what it takes at this level for me, concentration and defensive positioning are just not there. Cedric’s head was elsewhere and did have some clear weaknesses, despite his self proclaimed world class crossing...

Are we bigging him up now he’s playing well for Fulham? Haha!

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