Baird of the land

Don't get how anyone could claim Schneiderlin was only great for one season. https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2020/apr/18/premier-league-players-unexpectedly-brilliant-one-season

It could be applied from next month forcing those clubs to defurlough their staff.

As a body can't it bring in whatever rules it sees fit and penalties for failing to comply?

Predictable given the premier league didn't take any leadership role by issuing penalties to the early clubs bad behaviour. The herd then felt they were at risk of being disadvantaged.

Very morally bankrupt actions from those clubs. Wonder if at some point there will be a domino effect where all clubs do it because other clubs are and they risk suffering for it if they don’t.

Personally I really wouldn’t want that. Ruin possibilities of a fresh season for each team.

If blackout lasts through May, makes sense not to finish the season, other than perhaps playoffs. Calling it based on current positions seems marginally better than voiding. That allows new season to start on time and delayed euros to take place next summer.

Decent fight from the team in 2nd half when we had 10. Annoying that we had to hand to a toothless newcastle at the death. Mccarthy excellent. Real shame Valery had his brain fade moment after a pretty decent game. Thought Ralph should have used his bench a lot more in 2nd half. Djenepo very silly. Boufal not great either. Can we get Redmond and Armstrong back please.

I like valery a lot as a player but that was a brainless decision he needs to learn from quickly.

Refs probably got all the decisions right. Djenepo silly in todays day and age to leave his foot in like that. Was playing awfully beforehand too. Boufal moving his arm and it hitting him not far enough up arm to be shoulder. Though did the ref just avoid responsibility knowing var would review. Manquillo, probably a yellow. Though did var review or did ref just give yellow? Hopefully Saints stay as fired up as at the end of the half.

Glad to see Valery back. Let's hope Boufal and Djenepo can fire and stay fit.

Wish it was us but very pleased for Norwich

If there’s no djenepo or Redmond, could Valery not be a more advanced option if boufal isn’t working out.

Was just thinking var had had a quiet weekend. Can’t let utd lose I guess. Let’s just hope they consistently apply this offside interpretation going forward for all teams but you know they won’t.

Lack of desire compared to west ham was very disappointing. No doubt they would have scored a 2nd anyway but McCarthy’s misjudgment was very annoying. Nice goal by obafemi about the only positive. Smallbone looks like a prospect but away to west ham was not the right setting imo.

Hopefully we get a reaction from the players after Ralph called them out on that diabolical display. Would prefer we play one of our right backs, allowing us to go back to the first choice 2 in the middle.

Hope our non turn up performance isn't a repeat of our end of season lack of effort from last season.

Felt we were fortunate to be 1-1 but that was truly awful by mccarthy. Nice finish by obafemi. Some nice passing by smallbone but i'd prefer one of the right backs on & JWP tenaciousness in the middle.

Was hoping we'd play one of the right backs. Hope Smallbone can play as well as last week. Equally Ings is a big miss.

Hopefully Boufal is back available if Djenepo isn't.

Well we are playing Newcastle the week after, so there's plenty of time for Carrollitis.

Or Valery isn’t considered fit enough to start yet(as Ralph actually said pre Burnley), as he’s been out for months

Not a team we seem to do that well against. Hopefully we can put them to the sword this time. Like to see jwp back in the middle. Hopefully Valery or kwp will be considered ready by the weekend.

So VAR doesn't even check de bruyne handball. So when its man city or liverpool var suddenly gets shy.

A good performance but i'd like us to be more clinical. Shame mings blocked adams effort. Also maybe we don't want Villa to go down as we seem to play well against them