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Ah man, Walcott back to everything he's been the past 18 months.

Good stuff Baz, need one of these games from you here.

Absolutely massive opportunity. Got to right the Wolves mistakes.

Inches away from breaking his leg. Correct decision even if the contact wasn't fully there.

Horrible day.

Leeds equaliser too so jinxed it all.

Leeds losing. Forest and Leicester 2-0 down. A Brentford goal somewhat soon and we'd be looking far better. Ah, Chelsea second disallowed.

Seriously what are you on about?

Everton 1-0 up. Them and Bournemouth winning today is a nail in the coffin to be honest.

Ah what a shit start to the weekend this is.

He says whilst Bournemouth are beating Liverpool who just beat United 7-0.

Liverpool, Brentford, Brighton, Chelsea, Spurs & City. Got a clear one to cheer on in every game at least!

I really hate that logic as well. Lazy and ridiculous. As if we're paying money to head to St Mary's each week hoping that our goalkeeper fucks up so we can come back and say we were right on SaintsWeb afterwards? I was really excited about the signing when it happened and I've been drastically proved wrong on that front. We all want him to do well, he isn't. End of story. I don't want my club to be relegated.

Great news. Not sure he'll play this one anyway but essential for Brentford.

I don’t think Caballero or McCarthy are particularly good options either, for what it’s worth. Would I have tried one of them by now because I don’t actually think our goalkeeping situation could get worse? Yes.

Don't disagree whatsoever regarding the Meslier point. As saint_clark just mentioned though, people like to make it out like this is a strength of Bazunu's game which takes some of the heat off the rest, when in reality it's just another factor of which he's one of the worst in the league. Anyway, more preempting future issues rather than a reflection of what's just happened. Nice to feel lucky for once.

I actually think this is completely wrong. If we go down this season an absolute majority of the blame is on Bazunu Edit: apologies, definitely hyperbole. I believe this to be more true than it not being any fault of his, however.

The biggest criticism of him is that it legitimately may have been better for us to keep Long around for the role that he plays for us now. Absolute garbage. His second touch is always a tackle.

Finish! Forest been awful too. Happy if this stays 2-2.

I think you could make a positive out of any scoreline today, but yeah I’d go Draw = Forest > Everton.

This team had been needing somebody to play between the lines, make runs beyond the striker and ultimately put the ball in the back of the net. He's been a little up and down since he joined (Newcastle H was excellent), but I think he's proved to be a must start if he's fit. I don't think anyone else in our team makes that run and scores that goal. Would be about our luck that he's out for 6 weeks due to a knee slide.

It's the same case as it's always been with Che, a good footballer but a damn terrible finisher. Always thought we'd benefit purely by surrounding him with better players as his chance creation is very solid.

I think most people would argue he shouldn't have missed the ball leaving an open goal header from 5 yards. Leicester didn't have a shot on target yesterday and Bazunu nearly gifted them two goals. It's not "gotta trash someone", it's the reality of the situation. His "ball skills and distribution" being very good is nonsense as well, he has the worst completion percentage in the entire league.

Definitely a shame to hear the boos when Elyounoussi came on, he’s nowhere near good enough but I will never question his effort. I can’t quite see what good people think that’d do. Touched the ball 25 times when he came on and gave the ball away with 11 of them, however. He doesn’t help us control a game we’re leading and he will never be key to getting us back into one we’re not. Glad to see him out the starting 11 today, at least.

He needs to figure it out for sure. Making us 20x worse every game at the minute.