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Great goal. Sinclair 1-1

Boruc looks very competent tbh. Our GK dept. suddenly looks excellent.

errr, no he shouldn't! he's no where near good enough. Which is why he's there.

Around £8m I think, and yeah - they've been well stitched up on that one. Looks such an awful player every time I've seen him, Man Utd fans have the same opinion.

Watch on link 2 - you shouldn't need to download anything, it will just stream in the browser. (Ignore the popups and just click on the X's)

But that was with the likes of Frei, Berbatov, Petric etc. They were as weak in attack as they could be yesterday.

Great save from Boruc there to prevent it from going 2-0. We're playing pretty well though, lots of possession but it's kind of going to bits in the final third. Stephens is having a pretty dodgy game though.

What a disaster.

He's injured........6/7 weeks out.

Who?

Yeah, out for about 12 weeks +. Bad injury to his shoulder. Matt Taylor will come in and did a decent job though. They're a well drilled outfit, well suited to being a mid-table PL team. They're beatable, but we'll need our best players available and we'll need to learn how to defend high balls between now and the 20th.

We'd have little chance of doing anything without them in the side. Teams will still score against us even if we don't have those players in the midfield. So leaving those out puts us at a disadvantage straight away. I think we need to carry on playing on the front foot, if you start dropping the likes of Gaston or Lallana for away games then you're kind of accepting defeat.

Pretty much this. In comparison to other managers, NA has had a hell of a lot to spend over the last 3 years - and we've achieved success through it. Redknapp isn't a bad manager, but he's not the right sort of manager for us.

Dickson and Butterfield, seriously? They're not for this level, let's be honest. They would be torn a new one. Free agents is probably the only alternative change I would advocate at the moment, but if players are still free in October then they're generally not very good.

Jos got himself in a bad position. and look at Gazzaniga's reaction, he knew it was going wide as he signaled that before Jos put his foot out - only to look at Jos with disbelief. Own goals can be unlucky, but they can also come from bad positioning. Which was the case yesterday.

But who replaces him? We'd be weaker straight away.

If you're not advocating getting rid of NA, what sort of change do you want? We've got to get the best out of this squad as this is it until January, and to be honest I'm more confident with NA at the helm than someone else. In my opinion the last thing we need during this crucial 8-week period is change. A new manager would have to work with exactly the same players, but would be at a disadvantage of having to learn the entire team.

Not a great deal, but bear in mind that 70% of his time here he has been accommodated in a position which isn't his. So that goes against him, as he hasn't been able to make a great of an impact. Yesterday was his chance as a central striker, and I didn't think he did too badly. His movement and runs along the back 4 are terrific and always well timed. You can see the quality there, but I think he's still not quite sure about his surroundings. Whatever though, it's a little silly to write off a player who is only 7 games into his saints career.

Is it really embarrassing though? I can think of many more embarrassing things, and not filling up a stadium isn't high on the list. To be honest, as long as I'm there and the people around me, I couldn't give a **** if there are a few empty seats elsewhere.

He's not a captain, end of. But he has been one of our more effective attackers this season in terms of assists. But he was completely rubbish in open play yesterday, if truth be told.

Yeah it was cleared off the line, but you're right - a cleaner connection and that was a goal. (but it did come to him at a fairly odd angle to be fair)

Puncheon was rubbish in the 2nd half.

I think the real test is going to come over the next 8 or so weeks. This is now the period where we need to pick up points, wins and potentially clean sheets. Our fixture list has in many ways falsified our position in the league. If anyone else had the start we had I'd expect them to be in exactly the same position to be honest. The next 2 months will tell us all we need to know about this squad, and if it has what it really takes. I think it's too early to be stamping feet and demanding change, but one thing that we need on our side is injuries as we cannot be without our key players at this level.

What a load of garbage that post is. If you're going to make a point like this, at least make an effort to spell it correctly. Otherwise you're on a hiding to nothing, especially when you argument is as flimsy as it is anyway.

Yep, that's football for you! But for all the debate being made about the substitutions, if you actually watch the game back - they helped us change the tide of the game slightly, and Guly was excellent.