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Stick Adams on Martinez, whip some crosses in and reap the rewards. Shame Maguire’s unlikely to be playing.

When he wasn't included in the tour, or any pre-season matches due to "injury", there were five Instagram videos posted up of him training on his own. No strapping in the videos for injury and he didn't look too injured, or unable to train with the team. So, not too sure what's going on. One for the itks. https://www.instagram.com/_b3performance/?hl=en

What's weird is both Gibbs-White and Lingard take up the same position if they're going to keep the same formation they've been playing with. So, it's a choice between leaving a player on £200k-a-week, or a player signed for a potential £44m on the bench. You'd hope it would spur on, encourage them to put in performances on the pitch when they get their chance, but then neither put up much of a fight at either United, or Wolves when they were benched. It was consistent first team football at both West Ham and Sheffield United where they shone. Then you have the striker situation. Brennan Johnson's their star man, so he's an automatic starter every week. But, they also signed Awoniyi for £17m and Dennis for £20m. One of them has signed to sit on the bench, which is a bit much for a squad player. Midfield as well to a lesser extent, £10m on O'Brien, £12m on Mangala, Kouyate on a free who was on £65k a week at Palace and Freuler for £7m. To replace one outgoing midfielder, Garner, after his loan. Who's come in to sit on the Nottingham Forest bench? I guess it's exciting if you're a fan and they're at least giving it ago. But, it doesn't seem to be very coordinated, a player becomes available, Forest sign them.

Especially if JWP makes these crosses one of his new trademarks. He tried one earlier in the match against Leicester, but A. Armstrong was the target, so it wasn't as successful.

Given his name and double barrelled surname, Saint-Maximin should have ended up here. He’s torn Kyle Walker apart today, made him look slow.

The overriding positives of the first three matches of the season are the new signings. Usually, there's one, or two a window, who you can tell aren't quite at the required level straight away, a Clasie, a Juanmi, a Hoedt, a Carrillo, a Danso as examples. But, each of our first team signings this summer have certainly made our first 11 stronger. ABK and Lavia don't play like their respective ages. Bazunu and Mara, it's a bit more clear that they're at the early stages of their careers, but they also look like Premier League players and Aribo has brought some much needed quality to our attack. We desperately needed the new signings to add something to our team and they certainly have. Credit to the recruitment team and if this is down to the data driven analysis that Sport Republic/Ankersen reference a lot then I'm all for it. We can go back to the Mitchell days of feeling confident when a player does eventually leave us. Lets hope the next few weeks and incomings bring the same results. Fortunately, nobody came in for Adams with a suitable offer given all the rumours that he's available. Can't sell him after this. Scored two today, unlucky not to get a third and player a part in our two goals last weekend as well. And some thought we'd be fortunate to get £20m for him.

Aston Villa losing 3-1 against Crystal Palace. They need Bednarek.

Aribo’s the only one with any composure out there, we’re giving up possession far too easily.

Great time to play Leicester with the transfer window continuing while the season starts. Schmeichel gone, Ward a downgrade, Fofana and Tielemans not playing. What we mustn't then do is shoot ourselves in the foot and play the reserved tactics we've been playing this season, nor should Bednarek or Elyounoussi be in the starting eleven. As I said after the match last Saturday, if we didn't learn anything from the performance in the last 20 minutes, then ultimately it was pointless, despite giving us a point. This is a great opportunity to get three points. If we sit back and give Vardy, Perez, Barnes and Maddison chances, they'll eventually punish us, as Leeds did last week. Attack them from the off, take a lead, demoralise them and then possibly go more reserved.

Make it happen Villa, I don't get many predictions correct.

Purely from the YouTube videos, I'd say he was most comparable to Pelle of our strikers of recent history. Adams, Ramos, Mara and Armstrong seems a pretty good set of strikers for a club of our size to have for the season, hoping we don't sell Adams to facilitate this.

Lashed out a few times before the actual sending off. See him miss a slap in the video below at 0:44 and even moved his head towards Andersen in the play before actually connecting with him.

For some comfort, they started last season winning their first three matches and without conceding a goal in their first four matches. Then they finished 10th! It's a tough League One with Ipswich, Peterborough, Bolton, Charlton, Derby, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley down there this season.

Who is MLG's favourite Southampton player of all time? Marek Saganowksi

Next time we play Liverpool JWP has to wind up Nunez.

Once the window closes and Chelsea have their new striker, I doubt he'll be getting those stoppage time sub appearances.

He did appear to do a goodbye lap after the Leeds match.

Let this match be a learning curve. Every man and his dog could see that the five at the back formation was poor and there wasn't any reason to be stubborn with it. Hopefully, the two goals with the new formation has shown Hasenhuttl that we do have the players to be more expressive and take the game to the opposition again. Additionally, we do not need to keep being reminded that Bednarek and Elyounoussi are piss poor at this level and shouldn't be starting any Premier League fixture. How the latter started ahead of Aribo, the lord only knows. Credit to all of Aribo, A. Armstrong and Mara (And I guess the manager, although 70 minutes late) on changing the game. All need to start next week against a poor Leicester side and that includes A. Armstrong, who looked a bit hopeless last week, but with players around him, he could certainly be a nuisance as he was today. Positives were obviously Aribo, who gave us that Premier League quality in attack that we were completely missing and Bella-Kotchap. He has the same characteristics as Lyanco, but obviously a bit better and I don't think he celebrates making a tackle, but he does let his teammates know when they've made a mistake and urges them to play positively and quickly when they aren't. But, yeah, Hasenhuttl needs to learn from this and if the same mistakes that were made today are made next week then I'll be firmly in the out camp, as you can't start playing after 70 minutes and 2-0 down.

Exactly what we’ve been missing. Creates the chance and puts it away.

Personally, at the end of the 2020-21 season when matches were being played behind closed doors and the team went on a run of four wins in 21 league fixtures, losing 15 of them it was because the fans just weren't behind the team enough and weren't "into it" enough. We need to look in the mirror.

Especially the one at Old Trafford!

Getting into football and Saints in 2004/2005, Lambert's the clear legend of my era supporting the club. I remember signing him, going to Northampton at home the next day and him scoring on his debut and that was a sign of what was to come for the next five years. Such a good footballer and took the rise up to the Championship and then the Premier League with ease. 15 league goals in 38 in his first season in the top flight, we're crying for that now. We've had some good moments as England fans in recent years, and that goal against Scotland is still up there as one of the most memorable.

Just watching it back and it's interesting from the very first question how Hasenhuttl goes on about how we must always press and work harder than the opposition and that's why we've caused problems to the bigger clubs in recent history. One of the key things I've noticed from the team in the past six months is that they simply haven't worked hard at all. Giving teams too much time and space both defensively when failing to close down opponents and offensively when giving them all the time in the world to setup their defensive unit. Last season the players could fall on the modern day excuse of being safe and having nothing to play for, despite fans turning up every week spending good money, but Saturday's performance against Tottenham didn't give me any encouragement regarding effort levels from our team. Effort's the bare minimum and what I loved about the team under Pochettino and we simply haven't seen that for half a year now.

£15m is peanuts. We got that for Vestergaard in the final year of his contract and Matt Targett in recent years. Forest have been spending money all summer, £18m on Neco Williams, £20m on Awoniyi, £200k a week on Lingard and are reportedly putting in bids worth up to £40m for Gibbs-White. Fortunately, TeamTalk aren't a great source, but if we were to sell Adams for just £15m, it would be pretty stupid.

Was he any good?