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Good strike from Perraud. I don't think he's a world beater but definitely been hard done by since NJ arrived.

Was it really worth playing him in this game if he needed that much strapping?

Looks like a nice team, definitely crying out for that Hjulmand signing as mentioned. Not quite sure what the Lavia deal is, this is the one game of the three I had zero interest in him playing. Hopefully we see a bit (lot) more from Orsic in this one.

We need to get a striker in cause Che can't finish, ah yes let's go for Michail Antonio

His percentile rating compared to the rest of the Championship fullbacks. 62% pass completion (the worst in the entire league) so I'm expecting lots of long balls to nobody has been a common theme of his career under NJ. His positive attacking stats are likely skewed from his set pieces, which he obviously wouldn't get here.

I had the exact same process of thought as well. He's clearly playing the 3 centre backs cause we're a smaller team on the whole, so I assumed this was some 6'2 shithouse full-back but he's the same height as Perraud who he's frozen out for more height.

Thanks for that. So we're looking at 26 games played, 1 goal and 18 games missed through injury, brilliant stuff if you ask me.

In the year that has passed since this article was written, he has scored one goal.

Don’t disagree we’re a bit better but saying we’re not a long ball side is a stretch

Not even just that haha, constant diagonal balls by our defenders who cannot pass aimed towards Dan Burn? Absolutely mental

Anything possible to make sure the away fans have a good time, including letting them sit in our end apparently

Search dogs, metal detectors and a second ticket check on the stairs to get into the Northam today? How the fuck did the away fans get a flare in then? I wonder

Fed up of NJ telling us we’re hard to beat when Newcastle scored from their 5th chance from the exact same fucking move

From what I saw there were Newcastle and Saints fans having it off over the barrier as per every week, then a Saints fan got knocked down a step into a copper and then 30 of them were needed to kick him out the ground.

Alcaraz was great. Wrongly worried after the Everton cameo. Can’t say the same for Orsic but hopefully he adaps quickly. Che Adams, reasonable hold up play or whatever, will be a major factor in our failings this season. The guy is a terrible striker. We flirted with danger at the back post all game until it finally did us in. Also, fuck the police at half time in the Northam, getting worse every week. Last train back home cancelled just to top it all off.

Diallo holding my fucking god. Lavia instead and I’d love that team.

Just set off now. Hoping for Orsic in the team at the very least. Don’t give us much hope but didn’t v City either.

Sad but you can't blame the club on this one. Sounds like he's being poorly advised, as there's realistically no better place for him to be right now if he is that good a prospect.

I am both embarrassed and reasonably happy

TalkShite now saying it's not happening.

Incredibly uninspiring move, especially for that kind of money. 4 goals in 50 career first team appearances. They obviously have a decent eye for young talent, but this is a serious outlay for somebody who has enough senior experience to look like he isn't quite worth it. Absolutely massive pressure on the guy as well.

Pretty grim to be accusing a young lad of faking an injury, especially considering it looked pretty obvious what happened with the overextension. My immediate thought was ACL with the way it happened. His stock was rising massively since joining us, so I'm not quite sure what benefit there would be for ABK to sit out multiple months and not further put himself in the shop window should we go down.

Unfortunately I think that's a little optimistic, given the previous links to Keane (unless they were nonsense) suggesting that he probably wanted another CB in the squad.

Not sure if that's more embarrassing for Bednarek, who chatted shit about being part of a big club only to play one game and be happily sent back. Or us, who have somehow deemed this tool necessary to be part of our relegation.

I agree. The Jackson "update" is uh... vague to say the very least as well. Think he's just enjoying some attention from Saints fans and running with it.