Baird of the land

My issue is less with jwp but with this current situation where he must always be fitted into the xi somehow and must be moved around rather than subbed if we need to change it. Moving him to right back when the right back Valery had negated their threat completely was bizarre.

Not a fan of var but am very glad we aren’t getting the awful extent of re-reffing, massive delays and still awful decisions. The penalty was soft but no travesty and likely could have been given by var rereffing. Hojberg’s arms were all over him even before the contact the player went down from.

Good away point. Plenty of positives. Hojberg much better. Valery and Bertrand decent. Yoshida good as always. Nice cool collected finish by ings. 532 seems to be much better shape for us. While there were still moments of shakiness from the defense but we looked on the whole more comfortable and it helped us make it less easy to score. You can very much see why boufal didn’t start. Some nice control but some terrible cheap turnovers. The bad. Ralph’s subs. Take off a right back who is playing well so you don’t have to take off jwp. Jwp looks a goal waiting to concede so he takes off Romeu to bring on another makeshift right back and turn jwp into a makeshift defensive mid. Was it Ralph’s tactics at 1-0 to have everyone sit deep and defend. If so that was crazy. Carrying on playing how you’d got to 1-0.

Now we’ve brought on another makeshift right back. Is Ralph trying to lose the game

It really is nuts that jwp is unsubbable. Moved to right wing where Valery had been good and he looks all at sea there

Bemused at saints dropping off and trying to defend at 1-0. Penalty slightly harsh but we deserved it for our mentality after taking the lead.

Hojberg looks much better in this shape as do much of the team. Been excellent today. Redmond looking dangerous but needs a word to not want todo ithimself every t8me. Bertrand playing well too. However defense still looks too fragile to simple balls and Gunn is an accident waiting to happen. Not a fan of var or new handball rule but they have saved our bacon today. Huge second half coming.

Just want to see us show some organized defensive shape today. Keep it tight and stay in the game rather than hand it to opposition on a plate.

Expected 5 at the back given how wolves set up. Danso didn’t shower himself in glory so get vestergaard recall. Shocked he’s stuck with Gunn. Not sure what McCarthy has to do. Not shocked but disappointed that jwp starts.

Feels like a very big game to me. If we get at least a point out of it we can head into a tricky spell of games with a little more confidence.

Mccarthy Valery Bednarek Yoshida Danso Bertrand Romeu Hojberg Armstrong Redmond Ings Subs Gunn, Cedric, Vestergaard, JWP, Obafemi, Adams, Boufal

Enjoyable listen. Lucy's been a very good addition to the pod imo.

No fan of Corbyn labour at all but turns out the odiousness of Boris and company is one of few circumstances I'll hold my nose and vote for them.

I certainly wouldn't be gambling with the finances in January to avoid it.

It wasn’t great by jwp but he lost it in their half. The calamity was gunn’s.

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.