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Djenepo on, hoping for some magic.

How’s that not a foul on Redmond?

Come on Ralph. Shake it up a bit!

JWP territory...

What, surely a pen. edit: no, went down too easy.

Same was said about JWP. I know it doesn’t really mean anything, but there’s still plenty of time for the lad.

Hopefully we are super fit and it’ll benefit us later on. I think the Smallbone experiment hasn’t worked. Djenepo on soon please!

Jesus, stop passing to Redmond. That was an awful shot. Ingsy shoulda gone with his parented cut inside and roll into the far corner.

Fuck, great save on Adams’ hard volley.

Should be 1-1. Poor shot by Redmond.

Need to be much better. Maybe change things up a bit at 60 mins if we can’t raise our game. Long and Djenepo on for Adams and Smallbone. Need a much quicker tempo.

Bit too slow and ponderous all over the park. Hoping for a Ralph shakeup at HT. Maybe give Djenepo a go. Need a bit of speed and guile in there.

If he was great at both defending and attacking he wouldn’t be a Saints player. Spurs would have kept him or he’d be out of our price range. We aren’t big spenders so that means unless we take a huge risk like with Ings, all of our players will have areas of their game that aren’t that great. Not sure what people expect us to do, bring in a couple of $50M players?

Even without the usual suspects there are plenty of doom and gloom merchants left.

Shows how thin we are in replacements when Armstrong out. Boufal isn’t reliable, Djenepo always injured, Smallbone lightweight.

All setting up nicely for the Ralph hairdryer treatment at HT and a great cone from behind win!

Calm down! 18 minutes into a new season FFS!

Balls.

Hope Jack is ok. I don’t really want to see Vestergaard today (or any day).

Looking at the replay and Ings must be disappointed he didn’t control it better and score.

Bright start, Ings and Adams linked up well.

Unlucky. Stephens couldn’t get enough power on JWP corner.

Might even be round 3. Didn’t Zaha get away with poking him in the eye last season?

Kit looks really nice!

Thanks. Didn’t have time to trawl through the threads. Is he fit? Yes... But is he Ralph fit? Er.....