Saint Pete

Lack of urgency from us is concerning. Poor second half.

Get in!

Well deserved based on the first half. Fulham looking a decent side now.

Interesting. Great opportunity for him to make an impact. Good luck to him.

Great news 😊

Most premier league clubs would not leave themselves with no specialist full back cover (regardless of injuries) though would they? I get that Valery ain't great but he is a specialist full back and he has played a significant number of PL games. Sorry but I think you can count the number of PL clubs who would have loaned him out with no replacement in the midst of an injury crisis on one finger.

West Brom result good for us. But tells us a lot about the direction our season has taken that we are now much more interested in West Brom v Brighton than City v West Ham or Leeds v Villa. Sigh...

Agreed. Has that been Djenepo clattering into Kante in that way, I think we all know what the result would have been following a VAR review.

Was the assist for our goal "woeful woeful woeful" then? Sorry if it makes me happy clappy as well in your eyes but I can recognise that Redmond has been an important player for the club before (former player of the season) and that he was certainly one of our better players today against a good side. He's always been a confidence player and has been out of form, but you can see signs in the last couple of games of his confidence returning (if you are prepared to set aside vendettas and actually watch the game). Ralph clearly thinks so as he's restored him to the first 11. It's a shame that some are too blinkered in their views of Redmond to admit when he has contributed. You might say their contribution to this thread is "odd odd odd".

Just seen that incident near the end when Sheff U should have had a penalty but ref gave a foul on the keeper. What the fuck is the point in VAR if they can't get that right and reverse it? Clear as day penalty.

Vest and Adams in?

Got to be happy with that!

If only Ings chance had gone in. ☹️

Right, Jannik up top and play more direct now. Short passing tricky on this surface even versus 9.

Really tricky to pass it but we are getting chances.

Jesus wept! So close.

Tough conditions out there, need to play it simple.

Absolute class! And a red card.

Yep. Those calling for Ralph's head are off their rocker, he is the best thing going for us right now irrespective of recent form. How he produced the results he did out of this bunch in 2020 was miraculous and we were never going to keep that up given lack of support off the pitch.

Great to have a few players back, especially Romeu, and excited to see what Minamino can do. Let's put a few wrongs right today. Come on you Saints!

The only positive is that it happened before and we came out the other side pretty well. So we know we can do it again. And I guess that Mike Dean doesn't ref all of our games.

Not sure you gain much from that having lost by 9 to be honest. Just make yourself look even more silly. I would like him to day we will appeal the second red and leave it at that for now.

This just seems utterly bizarre given that KWP is injured, we also have injuries in midfield limiting our options to play the likes of JWP there and we have failed to bring in our targets in full back positions. And we let Vokins go out as well!

Armstrong is the one I could see being rested in normal circumstances and he did look knackered towards the end on Saturday. But if none of Redmond, Djenepo, Tella or Romeu are still fit enough to start options to do that don't look appealing!

I really hope he does go with Vokins rather than shifting players around and weakening other positions to be honest.