OttawaSaint

It's basically game over, we haven't been in their defensive third at all yet and long and Boufal are totally isolated due to the back 8 sitting so deep.

1-0. Weak defending again.

Good defending by Danso.

It's basically a back 8. LB and RB and all 3 mids are very deep.

We'll got it n into the attacking third. Players will take a lap of honour and City will score.

3 across the mid: RM: JWP CM: Romeu LM: Armstrong Then it's Boufal and Long swapping back and forth to be a 1-1 or a 2 depending on where the ball is.

It's a back 5. RB: Valary RCB: Danso CB: Stephens LCB: Bednarek LB: Hojbjerg

Game is on DAZN! Watching at work.

BBC saying players got a warm welcome and Saints fans, although few in number are making themselves heard.

Are we losing yet?

Is he the shouty guy who's always trying to create soundbites?

Just noticed that you put your clocks back (or cocks back as Jimmy Hill once famously said on MOTD). We haven't, so the slaughter...I mean match begins at 3:45pm here.

Good answer! Can those who were at the game comment if at any time did a more senior pro go to him at all? From the TV it didn't look like it. He needed a more experienced player to put his arm around him a bit and help him calm down.

At 46 I think I might be a bit old. That, and I'm hobbling with a sore thigh from a foul on Friday night.

Play indoor football on a Friday. A few of the lads were laughing their heads off. Smashed in 3G and laid on 3 others in our win so that wiped the smiles off their faces.

Hopefully this really brings the players together in an us against the world mentality, other players will probably be giving them stick during our subsequent games. If they have any pride they’ll get ****ing stuck in and double their effort level.

Average salary in UK is apparently 36,611. So basically equivalent to a 100 pound donation, effing peanuts really.

We are in a real mess but looking at the table, Man United in 7th are only 5pts ahead of us. Who here thinks we can right the ship in time for when we play weaker teams that we can get the points necessary to survive relegation? Who thinks we’re ****ed? I think it’ll come down to whether we can overcome this drubbing and restore a bit of unity. We need to at least show some spirit in these 2 games vs City and then who knows.

We need to see some sort of reaction. We will almost certainly lose but whoever plays needs to give 100% for the shirt. The longer this festers, the worse it gets. Hopefully this will be in the past and when we play the likes of Everton and Watford the starting lineup will be focused on winning those games and not damage limitation.

Exactly, they realize they are in no position to shoot or pass so try to get contact and then go down. What’s a defender supposed to do?

Exactly, there are many explanations for what he said and no one on here knows exactly what he meant for sure.

Yeah it’s getting ridiculous. After VAR Hudson Odoi got rightly booked for a dive in the box yesterday. That run and dive was virtually identical to Doherty’s against us last week. My bet is that there’d already made 2 (correct) calls against Wolves so didn’t want to make a third one. The system is still wide open to corruption.

Late goal for Arsenal ruled out. Haven’t seen the incident though.

Forwards are now deliberately leaving their leg close to a defender to initiate contact so they can go to ground. Say what you like, that would never have been called a penalty a few years back.

So half saying definite pen the other half saying no way.