Baird of the land

Fulham didn’t really turn up but we were professional enough for the win. Hopefully will help confidence. Thought we should have pushed on and got more in the 2nd half. Yoshi looked very solid on his return. Good to see Bertrand getting back up to speed. Was incredibly disappointed to see long once again coming on. Utter waste of space.

Not sure why Fulham came in with the we don’t need a right side but I hope they keep it up.

Good intervention by Valery and save from Gunn.

the one time this midfield 3 worked imo, it was because Hojberg seemed much more advanced. Hope for a repeat tonight.

Austin running into channels lol.

Glad yoshi is in. Disappointed gallagher isn’t starting. At least he’s on the bench this week. 5 at the back and 3 more defensively minded midfielders is a bit overkill. Armstrong for jwp would have been better imo. Hopefully he’ll change sooner if it doesn’t work by half time or we somehow go behind.

Still can’t believe saints lost twice to abysmal Cardiff team.

That lineup is pretty close to what i’d Hope for. Wouldn’t have an issue if yoshi was in though.

Yoshi & Gallagher in.

Still back Ralph but he’s got it wrong two games in a row. Now a huge amount of pressure on Fulham game.

Not playing any strikers and not having gallagher on bench is working a treat.

Bringing on 2 strikers at ht. Be interested to see how self critical Ralph is post game

2nd game in a row where I just looked at the starting 11 and winced.

Agree i’d I’d much prefer to see Sam given an hour than another longathon. Still amazed long got given that goal schmeichel put into his own net.

First time Ralph has got it truly wrong. Starting formation didn’t suit opposition we were playing and he took too long to change it. Thought we had scrambled what would have been a fair point Only to concede a goalmouth scramble.

It’ll probably be Austin but I’d prefer gallagher. Ralph has hardly been shy of giving players starts.

Any clue what’s happened to Gallagher. Couldn’t see him in training pics either.

Sounds like Saints just wanted him off the wage bill. Hope he can sort himself out a good permanent move in the summer.

After a rope first minute foul I thought he settled down and grew into the game. Good to know we’ve got someone who can step up and look assured when we have a couple of injuries.

Seems crazy to have risked him again if he felt something beforehand.

I definitely like seeing us developing our own players. There’s a balance with buying a core group of quality players. Our current league position is due to poor past management and some terrible purchasing. The youngsters Ralph has played haven’t let him down at all. Very pleased to see slattery slotting in & having a pretty solid first league start. I like Stephens and thought he had a good game. He was being fouled by crouch and instinctively raised his hand. You do wonder if not for the McCarthy incident whether the ref might have given the foul. He’ll probably drop back to the bench with yoshi back and that’s fine.

Slattery certainly looked good today.

Yeah how dare our manager play our talented academy players!

Hopefully pre season fitness work next season will help us not lose energy late on.

To be fair McCarthy was wasting time every goal kick.