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Ralph, if he is staying has to start fresh, just like when he came here. Drop the 4222 and get the 433 system going. Players told they are playing for their place. Team picked due to attitude and application in training and then go from there. To pick up unchanged side after Newcastle was a mistake. Those in the team bar Ings are too comfortable and those coming on seem jaded. Players need to be out there with a point to prove, hungry for success. Our lot look like they’d rather be somewhere else.

Makes me wonder what happened. He came to Saints and got the boys playing well, got in Valery, rejuvenated JWP and then boom, new season and it’s all gone to ****. Cedric now a mainstay, Hoj and JWP as DCMs?? New signings not getting any game time. A talisman in Boufal sitting on the bench. Shane Long starting. Sticking with Redmond even though it’s clear to anyone who watches the game that the lad is woefully short on confidence. Substitutions, Armstrong gets 10 minutes. Adams 8? I’d have started both after the woeful performances of Long and Hoj at Newcastle. McCarthy Stephens Bednarek Yoshida Bertrand JWP Romeu Armstrong Djenepo Ings Adams If Boufal and Valery are fit then get them in instead of Adams and Stephens. Toss up as to Stephens or Bednarek alongside Yosiida. Ralph needs to find a CB pairing that works. No clean sheets at home since Fulham last season. Needs fixing , pronto.

Beautiful strike too, took it first time. We seem to coach the confidence out of players. He was magic until our geniuses got their hands on him. Class player.

Other teams have cottoned on too. They stand off and let him shoot knowing he’ll spoon it a mile over the bar. If he had an ounce of footballing sense he’d fake a shot and/or play in one of our strikers, nope like a red rag to a bull because once, he smoked one and it actually went in. Fraud!

100% agreed. Poor sod had to resort to coming back into midfield to get the ball because our useless gutless plodders couldn’t pick him out with a pass. As soon as it was 1-0 I knew it was game over. We were passing the ball around (ineffectually as usual) just prior to the goal, Hoj couldn’t control the simplest of balls and fouled their player by diving for it. Free kick, 10 seconds later...goal.

Being reported that Pukki played today with a broken toe, scored, got Leicester a point. Meanwhile Boufal...

More than I do in a year...

Nice goal by Gabbi today for Sampdoria *sigh*

Went out for some fresh air to help me cool off. Nope, I’m still absolute boiling mad with just how bad we are and continue to be. If it was a case of losing but getting bloody well stuck in, trying to do the right things and going down all guns blazing then it might be palatable but every game we look like a pub team that was just introduced to each other before the game. Passes astray, no communication, no composure, no one on the same wavelength. What on earth do they work on in training? We get all the photos and the sound bites but in reality, the plastic fake wall is out for 3 weeks because Redmond keeps ruining into it. We don’t have any balls to practice with after Cedric was tasked with crossing practice and Long shooting practice and they skied them all over the neighbor’s fence and our powderpuff midfield duo of JWP and Hoj were too timid to go ask for them back.

Also, why an unchanged 11? Rewarding those hapless ****s for the ****show at SJP?

What was Stephens doing at the end. Just had to go for the corner of the net, might get a rebound, nope, passed it back into a melee of players. Had it been us holding on, and Stephens been some player that hasn’t scored since 2014 it would have been drilled confidently into the top corner. It’s like our players lack self belief and confidence as well as talent. Same old ****ing story time and time again.

I'm embarrassed to be a Saints fan. Beyond pathetic today.

only since 1980. Must be why I'm so utterly sick of the sight of them.

Worst Saints team ever. How many times have we conceded at the death? Do we pile on and go for an equalizer? Nah, easy as pie for one of the leagues out of form teams. **** off Saints, just **** off.

Adams . Just ugh! Then Stephens passes with a wide open chance.

Need to empty the kitchen bin...

Think of all the times we’ve been clinging on and conceded at the death. Won’t happen to WHU today though.

Clear illustration of why we are where we are. Free kick gets cleared to a Saints player and those that had advanced into offside positions didn’t even try to get onside for the return ball. Just couldn’t be bothered. And now Hoj misses a sitter. We are just a very poor team. No game breakers apart from Ings.

Wow Stephens just wow!

Didn’t see a foul. We’ve been shocking but that was an equalizer.

Tries to keep ball in, gives it away and is now a mile out of position. He’s just too thick to be a good player.

At this point Long should actually try to miss and it’ll more than likely go in. Ings is the only one out there who looks like a footballer. Twice off the woodwork.

This is as bad as the Leics and Everton games, just shocking all over the park. Lol. Good old Shane Long. Why is he even near the first 11, that’s just how bad we are...

Just blow the FT whistle, we’re not scoring today. Might help our GD.

Hoj is just so bad...at everything. It’s laughable.