Baird of the land

See he's now playing for struggling Dundee.

Be interesting to see how he manages the squad with 2 games so close together. Will Long start this one, leaving Austin fresh for Swansea.

A mixed bag of a performance. At least 4 once we held onto a lead & Bournemouth didn’t send us down. Once again not really a fan of Hughes tactical changes. Seemed to invite more pressure with each one. The goal once again from the inability to deal with an aerial ball. This summer regardless we need a big tall strong Centre half. Tadic excellent. Hopefully he can repeat that sort of clinical display in the next couple. We also got the good lemina today rather than mr jeckyll. Still think we’ll have to play better to stay up.

One or two interesting nuggets around a lot of drivel. The way it waxs lyrical about a manager who so far has got us one point suggests it might be coming from his agent.

No excuse for refusing to warmup. Shame as he's got talent but assume we'll end up getting nothing back for him & will have to loan him out to get him off the wage bill.

I’m not sure any of them are terrible players but none of them are the co-ordinating dominant aerially center back we desperately needed. The fact we spent 15m on him as a direct van dijk replacement is why people are critical.

Yes please. As well as potchettino & Koeman did i’m Still unhappy at how a fabously successful manager was treated. We played lovely football under him too.

Mccarthy Cedric Bednarek Yoshi Hoedt Bertrand Romeu Hojberg Redmond Austin Tadic Subs Forster, Stephens, Lemina, JWP, Long, Gabbi, Sims

Both goals were disappointing. More evidence of us being unable to deal with aerial balls. Disallowed goal was frustrating. Not too much wrong with it & wonder if ref would have been so lenient on our keeper. Thought Redmond looked better when he came on. If only we could bottle that direct play and use it regularly. Long, frustrating. Clearly causes teams all sorts of problems but just won’t shoot when 2 decent opportunities arose.

McCarthy Pied bednarek yoshi hoedt McQueen Davis hojberg lemina Long Austin Subs Forster, Bertrand, jwp, hesketh, sims, tadic, gabbi

Apparently Hughes is demanding we take more risks and go for it. Hmm would someone please tell that to the muppet in charge of the tactical changes. Ohh wait.

Well i’d Definitely keep long. Guy scored a hatful last time he was in the championship with reading. Romeu has been mediocre so you think he may not have people beating down the door and we’ll need a physical presence in midfield. Jwp you’d hope to keep too.

Hughes has promised rotation. Wonder what that means. Hopefully the likes of sims, McQueen, hesketh.

Why not put hesketh on the bench then. Surely he’s an option.

Don’t agree. You can look across at Swansea who appointed a championship manager to see a manager how a manager can affect results. 1 point in 4, you might as well have kept pellegrino for that and not had to pay as much compensation.

Redmond annoyed me. Had the ball in dangerous area of space near the edge of their box. Rather than shoot he shovels it all the way over to the left. Complete buck passing which is so rife in this team. At least sims would have tried to take them on.

Davis the captain?

Get rid of him and pay whatever it takes to get Adkins off hull.

Saints stumble from bad manager to yet another one. Tactically he actually he actually handed momentum to Leicester by taking off long. Utterly cowardly too. No doubt he’ll claim the most pointless point ever was vital. Please get rid off quickly.

Jwp’s ultimate Prem player saints player selections show our problem. No lambert anymore or Van Dijk to win headers at the back.

Felt sorry for long most of the half as no one would try playing a pass to his feet, all they wanted to do was the usual shovel out wide nonsense. Then finally when he gets a lovely ball he ******es it up by trying to pass the buck with an extremely difficult pass rather than just having a go as you’d want your striker to. If we are going to carry on the mindless cross stuff we should have Austin on. First 30 minutes thought we were very poor. Last 10/15 we were the better side but didn’t rest the keeper with either presentable opportunity we had. If I wasn’t so convinced the team would bottle it anyway i’d Think not taking those opportunities would be costly.

A couple of times we’ve already looked dodgy defensively.

Looks like we may have the ignomity of finishing bottom now WBA have learnt how to pick up points.

Most likely 3-1 loss. Start brightly score, rollover. Personally hope he rings the changes and brings in youngsters.

Agree completely. They should all be playing remaining games.