Baird of the land

Should have happened in the summer if we weren't going to use him. Loved having him at Saints.

You’d have to assume it’s down to his attitude.

If true hope he finds his way out the other side.

Gunn Valery Stephens vestergaard bednarek Cedric Romeu jwp Armstrong gallagher Redmond Be interesting to see who plays in goal, who plays at fb, if lemina is going to be back fit, Up front if gallagher is back in full training this week go with him. I just can’t put long or Austin in a starting lineup after today.

What’s the situation with obafemi and gallagher?

Very clear we need another option out wide as no 1 priority. Moi looks terrible. Johnson not ready. If anything happens to Redmond we’d be in trouble.

Don’t get the Cedric hate. He’s not my favorite player but today he was steady.

Jwp good, Redmond excellent. Slaterry was ok Barnes and Johnson offered nothing when they came on No clue how long stayed on for the 90 either. Austin at least put a couple of nice balls into the box. My positive is hopefully gallagher will be fit enough to play in the replay.

Long plays like he’s a defender who is shocked to find himself in the opposition box.

Came through defender’s legs and seemed to glance off Stephens back leg rather than make a clean contact. Ps that was a beautiful goal by redmond

Started well then soaked up pressure, then should have got second. Gunn very composed again. Cedric ok, nothing special. Targett terrible defensively, looks ok going forward. Both center backs have had one dicey moment each. Otherwise ok. Though Stephens should have scored at other end. Jwp excellent. Slaterry fairly composed apart from one bad error. Redmond excellent. Mo poor Long typicallly making nuisance of himself while looking unlikely to ever score Austin, game passed him by

Redmond has started very well at both ends. Targett already looked weak defensively.

Hopefully he can get fully fit as he has had spells of playing extremely well.

I expect any Italian club to loan and then back out of transfer fee.

We can’t loan him without negotiating early payment of ings transfer fee even if we were interested which club understandably wouldn’t want to do.

Shame but at least he’s able to show Ralph what he offers in training. No doubt we’ll freshen things up but given we’ve got a week till next game I hope we’ll play a reasonably strong team It’ll be interesting to see which striker plays. Are gallagher or obafemi fit enough yet. I’d prefer it wasn’t toothless long but equally not sure I want us starting away with immobile Austin. Assume ings will be rested if he’s not 100%.

Good that hesketh is fit. Hopefully he can impress.

He’s hardly guaranteed first choice long term, given the investment in Gunn. Why did Begovic trade stoke for being 2nd choice at Chelsea.

I guess we'll be looking for a rough diamond we can try to polish. Bournemouth did that with Fraser to good effect. To be fair in hindsight Traore would have been a good impact player to have.

Given Klopp got only fined for running on the pitch surely Austin should get something similar.

Don't see the point in bringing back Wanyama as the current manager clearly rates Romeu in that role. There's other areas we need to be focusing on.

If Davis truly is off, hoping he might play some part & get proper farewell. Wonder if Klarer might come in at CB. Would be nice if Gallagher is fit enough for bench.

I think with Ralph we’ll be fine in the league, so i’d Love an fa cup run.

Average would be my description of his performance which is an upgrade of targett’s poorness last game.

Thought he played well tonight containing hazard. Had one very nice run in the first half too. A nice bonus that he’s quite good in the air too. Could do with working on his throw ins perhaps.