Baird of the land

Not the conditions i'd want to play Burnley but the way we folded in 2nd half was worrying. First goal, awful by vestergaard and surely gunn has to stop that. 2nd typical stephens switching off for a tap in. Glad i played pope in my fantasy team i suppose the sole positive to take out of it.

Might have been a yellow, never a red. Small positive that var didn’t force ref to review. Despite being high there wasn’t sufficient force for it to be dangerous.

I don’t think he’s appalling in the air. Most of his issues are to do with switching off imo.

Premier league looking like it’s going to be utterly atrocious in terms of competiveness like last year. Made even worse by horrid use of var. all the premier league refs will use discretion pr bs out the window immediately.

Maybe if it was a maradona handball, if it’s for encroachment nope won’t ever love it regardless.

My assumption is it is to do with Stephens ability to bring the ball out. Just hope Stephens can maintain his concentration.

New rule is a joke.

Interesting that hojberg is on bench and that Stephens is preferred to yoshi.

Pretty happy especially if Danso is in. Still some deadwood to shift to Europe to make it an even more perfect week

Does this mean lemina is now to be rehabilitated or slattery pushed further up pecking order. Shame we weren’t able to sell for a fee if we didn’t want to keep him.

So we didn’t sign vestergaard last summer. Good to know.

Maybe a loan in Jan. Carrillo shows you by and large what’s available in Jan imo, poor players who’s value is doubled because it’s Jan.

You could equally say the boring boring casual spenders moan that saints don’t do more transfer business. Happens every window without fail.

Agree glaring issues with pace and goals seem to have been addressed. If we have to wait longer to address other problem areas that’s understandable.

Can see the logic of this. Effectively a half year loan where hopefully he’ll be playing week in week out at a high level rather than getting cameos with saints. The fact he’s been given a year’s extension too clearly means this isn’t simply with the aim to move him on.

Gunn Valery Vestergaard Yoshida Bertrand Romeu Hojberg Jwp Redmond Adams Ings Subs McCarthy Bednarek Cedric Reed Boufal djenepo Long

When chambers came through as alternative to clyne did we only have one recognized right back.

Pretty content with the window in terms of signings. Just hope we can move some of the dross out before the window closes

Stephens is easily championship level. He could do a Mings if gets the right move and applies himself. Jwp is an England international, hardly a make do player. Shaw is a guy who has wasted his talent so Far. Watching him getting embarrassed by Huddersfield and others last season was funny.

No hesketh.

Ins: no one Out; lemina, Carrillo, hesketh

But they haven't got better by and large. They are largely the same standard.

What's the point you are making, that they all have some equally average centre backs as there's very few worldies in there.

His behavior with 2 previous managers left something to be desired. That said i’d Happily see him offered a another chance.

I saw seri early against Burnley and he was fantastic, though clearly that wasn’t always the case.