Baird of the land

Forster (No matter the opposition he's clearly more confident off the back of a series of cleansheets so perhaps worth a roll of the dice) Stephens Bednarek Vestergaard Bertrand Romeu JWP Armstrong Redmond Adams Ings

Play Stephens there

What an embarassing 2nd half display by Saints, coupled with the fact we didn't take advantage of complete dominance in the first half.

Saints haven't turned up 2nd half

Saints haven't come out of the dressing room yet

That's my worry, need to capitalise more when we are on top so much.

Yeah to me it was fantastic skill but then he held onto it for too long rather than playing through ball to Minamino and ended up having to play backwards.

I disagree, trump was done and gone as a loser. Instead the dems handed him a victory parade.

Hopefully the Democrats stupid decision to try and impeach doesn’t end up haunting them.

Hopefully Vestergaard comes back in.

Nice draw. Hopefully Everton and Leicester can knock out the Manchester teams.

Nice to get back to winning ways. Hope we can repeat the feat at the weekend. you can definitely tell why the club bought salisu. He’s very much a work in progress in terms of his all round play but in the long term will hopefully offer a bit more pace at cb. nice to get a var decision go for us. nice to see Tella back from injury with a bright cameo. not a fan of Redmond as a striker.

Not a fan of this Redmond as a striker plan.

Sorry disagree, think this game is more important and won't be easy. If Verstergaard is available we should play him, as he adds so much to the team.

Wonder might we go 3-4-3 with Djenepo and redmond as wingbacks if Bednarek remains out.

Well can't say i expect anything based on that lineup. Ramsay at least gets an outing for his career scrapbook.

Reed understandably developed by playing games, so has targett. Elyounessi was a massive waste of money, 20 useless games and we're still loaning him out. We bought a raw Djenepo, now 22 yr old has already had 30 games at saints in 2 seasons despite having numerous injury problems and being pretty erratic. Sims made an impact on his debut at 19? Had a total of 27(50% in his debut sesson) appearances, of which 8 were starts and 5 of those starts were during his debut season. The next 2 seasons we had manager chaos (Pellegrino, Hughes, ralph arrival).

Think the likes of sims/reed/hesketh were messed about by blocked pathway. i do feel we should sometimes be using targeted loans earlier to get real league experience. A few of the players to come in this season have looked reasonable but u23 games seem to lack in preparing them.

Terrible time to be playing them, just after refs have told them they made a mistake. Fernandes soft penalty incoming.

Well there’s always next season to look forward to.

Only 2 fullbacks in the club. Yeah that's going to end well. If we get one injured are we going to end up thoroughly annoying our captain by making him spend the rest of season playing as a makeshift fullback.

Really i'd really prefer no one over a player who has shown zero ability to adapt to the league. No doubt we'll be forced to play him every game too.

Really can't for life of me understand why we are in for Minamino. What a garbage signing

We looked better when we brought Adams on. Too little too late. We let them get a lead and sit on it. Before that it was one of the insipid displays of the season. Annoyed about the handball decision but more so by the way we approached the game, against a very average Villa side.

Why was Walcott starting in the first place