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Did Ralph not figure out the reason this system worked Saturday was because of Forster. We are only 2 down tonight because of Forster. FFS give Broja some help, an experienced centre forward would struggle up there on his own, never mind a kid in his first season !!!

When we were in Burnley’s position the home games you always looked at were mid table teams with nothing to play for. They’ve got two in a row now while Everton have got Liverpool next up. Whst a chance to overtake them or get 4 out of 6 points to draw level.

Sounds plausible given, like you say, nobody was lined up to replace him.

It might be just me but I thought Redmond was a bloody disgrace when he came on. A couple of times we were looking to break out of defence and instead of busting a gut to offer support he was ambling around, nowhere to be seen. Contrast that with Long charging down Ramsdale right at the end and you have the attitude and mindset of the two players summed up. I hope someone buys him in the summer and we can get rid.

With 8 games left? That’s bizarre. Player power maybe?

Interesting listening to the Total Saints Podcast where Dan Sheldon confirmed the club had spoken to him several times about his tweets. It was a very good discussion and a lot of very good points made by the panel. It shows a fair degree of arrogance or lack of interest in his “job” as club ambassador that not only has he failed to tone it down but has just become more and more controversial.

If you go by his record at Bournemouth he is whether you want to doubt it or not. It’s when he suddenly had the Russian guys money that they started unraveling. If you seriously think the Newcastle billions will be trusted to Eddie Howe when they look to plan for their rivalling of Man City etc then think again. They will do exactly what City did, I believe our old mate Mark Hughes was in the hot seat, and jettison him for a big name to attract the big players.

Possibly because it’s either stories relating to himself or it isn’t questioning the site of charcoaled bodies on the news being made up?

He does that a lot, when we go a couple of goals down he often just goes and sits down, any presence from the touch line just goes missing. Sort of sending out its own message to the players of “this games gone, you’re on your own”

When he's in the middle of the park he does like a back or sideways pass, which is fine, but fuck me we were 2-0 down, there were more Saints players in front of him than behind, we needed to attack, so he passes back to who ? Oh yeah a centre back who had ambled over to take one of those oh so effective long throws and not bothered to stroll back into position either because he thought the momentum was for going forward or because he couldnt be arsed. I dont like it when we have a full seven days to train, thats when Ralph gets his big boy coaching manual out and goes for the weird and not so wonderful. Ok, in fairness yesterday that was the strongest team he could put out but god knows what the game plan was. Give them as much room in midfield as they want to lull them into a false sense of security ? Taking Romeu off was a weird one, you want damage limitation so you sub off the only midfield player who will put his foot in? I dread to think what he puts out and in what formation for the Arsenal game. I really hope he doesnt use this as an excuse to put McCarthy back in goal....oh and scrap the bloody long throw ins, having a centre back take them and then be miles out of position if/when the ball goes to the opposition is reckless or bloody stupid.

Trouble is we either look very very good or we look very very bad and there isn’t a lot in between the two extremes. Whoever it was said Saints are a streaky team had it 100% right. Today was pretty shameful with the exception of Walker Peters and Forster.

Aaron Lennon gotta be 45 by now hasn’t he? To be honest it’s like us looking to Walcott to be our saviour.

I have absolutely no issue with those three going, in truth someone like Norwich might go for Redmond, Djenepo will vanish back into a European first division somewhere but I think we will be stuck with Theo. Maybe we could make him an ambassador, there’s a vacancy 😛

I would be very surprised if the club hadn’t been in contact with him before he stepped aside from his ambassador role.

Thing is he isn’t helping himself. Presumably he has to have some form of income and most of his work has been media orientated. So to slag off the very medium in which he finds payment is fuckin stupid. Potential employers will end up not touching him with a barge pole. Trouble with social media is you can’t delete it, once it’s out there it’s out there. It won’t be taken in context, although I’m struggling to work out in what context you could take that well.

It may well do but his chances of landing a big job in the future are getting less and less with each passing week.

Given the fixtures they have left compared to Burnley’s they are gonna have to.

Don’t give me hope if you don’t know for sure 🤣

I do wonder if there’s an issue with Redmond. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand the player but we’ve gone from Ralph playing him at every opportunity to him not always making the bench and barely getting on when he does. Has there been a little tiff between Ralph and Redders?

Greedy little bastard

He does like taking a lot of right backs to a tournament tho does Southgate so fingers crossed 🤣

Got to say, although I’m biased, but I don’t think KWP is doing himself any harm here whatsoever. Looking very good again.

Yeah, the tax office had been watching him for years and they totally screwed it up

Southgate will find a way I’m sure 😂

I think we all know that, not with Gareth having his favourites as well but lets just hope he gets a game or some time on the pitch at least.