Baird of the land

Today illustrates exactly why we are going down. Even 2 of our wins(against west ham and WBA away) felt like we tried to throw them away.

All season we've been pathetic when leading. It's worse when they make you hope by actually playing well and leading and then bottling it. Today nailed relegation on. Bad defending. Poor management not to bother trying to do anything whilst house collapses. Time to just accept relegation & play more of the u23's

Manager sat back and did nothing whilst we collapsed. Tactical genius

If we defend like this we'll concede 5 or 6 against lesser teams.

Why? We'd still cave at the slightest pressure even if they had 10.

Pathetic. JWP had chance earlier to take the ball down and show composure. Instead he shanked it back to them.

Again really poor defending of a cross. 2 men and they can't deal with Giroud.

Surely there will be retrospective action on that.

Apart from a horrid performance against West Ham hojberg has been good imo.

Expecting by end of today we’ll be pretty much relegated. Hope saints prove me wrong & relegation rivals lose their very winnable games.

I'd love us to bring back Adkins personally.

Mccarthy Pied Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand Mcqueen Hojberg Romeu JWP Long Austin Subs Forster, Bednarek, Hesketh, Gabbi, Tadic, Lemina, Sims

We need to beat Chelsea otherwise we really will look well adrift as Hudd & palace have very winnable home games.

Summed up the season really. Another nail in the relegation coffin. In a game against a somewhat weakened Arsenal where a point was very much within our grasp we flatter with some nice football but when it comes to the toughness to hold onto a point we go like jelly defensively. Third goal was awful, Tadic getting owned by Iwobi, stephens getting caught unable to reach the header, cedric weak as baby at the back post. Even worse is that we'd been let off from a virtual carbon copy five minutes earlier when Wellbeck shanked over from a yard out. I like Stephens but hope he gets fined. I'm all for passion but being an idiot and leaving up with limited centre back options for 3 games isn't good. Midfield and attack deserve to keep their places against chelsea. Romeu was much better than he's been much of this season and Long was fantastic.

Much better passion & performance generally. Still we are going down as defensively we are a shambles. Cedric may have been good going forward today but he was a nightmare defensively. All this season we've shown a complete inability to hang onto any sort of lead That was very much a game we should have got a point out of against a weakened arsenal team. MOM: Long

I'd have severe doubts. We have so many highly paid players who i think wouldn't be interested in staying & fighting to get us back. Equally if Hughes does nothing to keep us up i wouldn't be keen on him in the Champ. Much prefer we went & got Adkins back. That would require paying Hull though which our board wouldn't want to do. Only positive is that it might see a few of the younger lads actually getting a run (Mcqueen, Gallagher, Targett, Hesketh, sims)

Arsenal winning at least. If only Saints would actually put some effort in during their games.

Hard to pick a team given the 11 that played today don't really deserve to start. Mccarthy Pied Stephens Yoshida Bertrand Romeu Hojberg Sims Hesketh Boufal Long Subs: Forster, Hoedt, Lemina, JWP, Austin, Gabbi, Tadic

Think you are being extremely generous that we are even going in at 30% for 50/50's. 95-5 more like.

Completely embarrassing. Even worse than the wigan fiurst half. Completely disorganised. No pressure on the opposition when they have the ball. No desire to compete. Hopeless long ball football. Horrible errors for the goals. The entire 11 should be dropped for the next game. Third goal really summed it up. Gutless when we had the ball. Let them waltz up the pitch and cross for a tap in.

Conceding from our our corner. Our complete ineptitude continues.

Thank goodness Salah has scored. Willing to support Liverpool just to keep Palace down with us.

Disappointing to see Sims hasn't even made the bench. Hope Austin is sharp enough after so long out.

Replace yoshida with a Zouma or a martins Indi to give us better balance at centre back. Hoedt hasn’t been the dominant presence hoped for when he was signed. As good as Shaqiri is he isn’t what we need. We already have boufal/tadic in that sort of playmaker mould. Plus I also think Hesketh’s talented too. What we need is a pacey direct attacking midfielder.

Cork is the one I feel sorry for when I see Livermore in the squad.