Baird of the land

Given how wolves set up wonder if we’ll go 5 with danso, yoshi and bednarek

Danny ings, excellent. Scored one, two decent efforts after that on pathetic service. Ralph’s response sub him. Sends a great message, play get hooked. Romeu worked his socks off. Gunn, made one save in the 2nd half. Awful for one goal, could have done better for 2 more. Time to step down to cup keeper for a bit. I really want to know if Ralph was happy minimizing the loss at 3-1, as looking on that seemed the plan of the 2nd half. Not sure how jwp played 90 minutes again. Barring the cross for ings in 2nd half it just wasn’t happening for him. Worrying times. Just fortunate through a mixture of djenpro and other teams incompetence we have 7 points on the board.

Back in form wolves, Leicester and man city twice is it. Hmm with javi Garcia available somebody in the league is going to pull the trigger. I still we’ll stick with Ralph but he’s engendering confidence

Pathetic. Lazy.

Ings disobeying team orders by trying to score clearly annoying Ralph.

Is it just saints that aren’t allowed to make double substitutions

One sub in 73 minute. Ralph preparing his my subs made no impact message.

Long’s Gone from barely playing a minute to being unsubbable.

Is Ralph allergic to subs or just happy to be settling for a loss

McCarthy wasn’t having best of season when dropped but I struggle to think of a non routine save Gunn has made this season. On top of that there’s the repeated atrocious errors of judgement.

On the plus side, given any kind of service ings looks dangerous. Everything else negative. Gunn atrocious Surely given our defensive issues we should be going back to basics. The second awful ball by Gunn, then bednarek cushioned header to romeu(too cute by half) given where we are. Others times we’ve got away with trying to be too cute. Annoyed me at end with 20 seconds of injury time left in the half we have a free kick and we muck about passing across our back line and are lucky to end up with a throw in Chelsea aren’t even having to do anything special to earn it.

Lovely by Valery and ings

Gunn really is useless

Annoying biased commentary, not even mentioning long being shoved in the back before the shirt pull

Pretty happy with lineup and start.

It’s going to be very interesting as to who plays right back on Sunday.

Still annoyed we lost Cork. Would have him back in an instant. Equally Chambers move was too early to arsenal & set back his career trajectory. Seems to be playing better for Arsenal this season.

Boris has pulled the release trigger on his derisory plan as a pretense to claim he actually tried to negotiate a deal. Intrigued to see what 's going to happen when he's faced with having to obey the Benn act. Hopefully parliament expediate it based on continued attempts by govt figures to claim they'll get round it.

Bet they wish they could play saints again this weekend as an easy bounce back.

Membership will end if not article 50 isn't extended requiring hard borders with EU. It's the Good Friday agreement that requires an open border in Ireland. The backstop was the UK's solution to that conundrum of a treaty/peace requiring an open border, the EU's goal (integrity of single market) and the uk's goal (integrity of uk market). The EU is well within its rights to make the treaty a prerequisite for a future trade deal, transition period etc. The reality is the only solutions are border in Irish Sea or alignment between EU/UK(backstop).

A finite end and/or a unilateral withdrawal makes the backstop worthless. Can't see why the EU would ever agree to selling one of their members down the river in such a way or destroy the integrity of the single market.

Pretty much the team from the Pompey game but Redmond in for me Mccarthy Cedric Bedanrek Yoshida Bertrand JWP Romeu Hojberg Redmond Ings Adams subs Gunn, Valery Vestergaard, Slattery, Obafemi, Boufal, Armstrong

Yeah I don’t get the focus on vestergaard for that goal when it’s bednarek who sees Kane, leaves him unmarked and then as he shoots twists sideways to make himself as small as possible

Nice to see at least one of them is unhappy with that garbage.

I thought he played better than Bednarek who was poor today.