Baird of the land

Seems rather an overreaction to the comments. That said i'll be very disappointed if he goes this summer.

I'd argue we need to be much more on front foot at home against anyone including the top teams if we have ambitions of repeating recent league positions. Very glad Fonte is unhappy at scrapping a draw against an on form but certainly not unbeatable liverpool side.

Slightly disappointed that at home we ended up a bit backs to the wall from the sounds of it. A reasonable point but a game we really needed to be winning if we are looking to emulate last season.

Hope classier doesn't start. Physical game away to hull doesn't sound at all suited to his style.

Concern was definitely my response to news of this mooted takeover. Real hope Liebherr rejects any advances or it is simply a minority investment stake.

Personally i thought Jrod looked ok and don't think he needs to go out on loan. We've got plenty enough games to have need of him. I don't think Austin sub changed the game it was just coincidental. Getting a slightly scrappy goal from a corner changed the game.

Great result. For a period in 2nd half we looked a bit lost but getting the goal from the corner settled us down. Thought Mcqueen did well again as did Yoshida. Looks much better and more confident actually playing in his natural position.

Forster Martina VVD Yoshi Mcqueen Romeu JWP Hojberg Tadic Jrod Boufal

Is Rodriguez still out injured?

One of those frustrating games where you wonder how things would have panned out of they hadn't of got the early goal. Hopefully the team can bounce back and get revenge against inter midweek.

Gritty performance enlivened by a spectacular goal by Boufal. My other favourite moment was in the 2nd half when Reed was put in a bad position back to goal, trapping, swivelling and playing a sublime cross field pass whilst under pressure. Great to see likes of Stephens, Mcqueen, Reed, Olomola getting the valuable experience whilst saints still got a result out of it. Only real shame was Jrod picking another injury in a game that would have been ideal in helping him get match sharp.

I was pretty pessimistic beforehand, so delighted the team bounced back from the unfortunate midweek defeat with a fantastic point at City.

I was pretty pessimistic beforehand, so delighted the team bounced back from the unfortunate midweek defeat with a fantastic point at City.

It'll be very interesting to see who plays in both fullback positions for us midweek.

Good professional result in the end. Too many missed opportunities in first half and slightly fortunate with Burnley penalty appeal against van dijk. Once we got the scrappy first goal we kicked on and put game to bed. could have got 5 or 6 in the end. Mcqueen looked good but better teams will test his defensive abilities and he needs to learn how to go down. 9/10 out of ten he'd get a booking for that superman dive. Their penalty was equally soft. Only downside was targett injury, i did worry about rushing him back for this game considering he wasn't fit enough for england. Hope we rest bertrand midweek and don't repeat the injury setback. The real test for this team is getting points from the games against the big teams.

The first jury thought beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a crime. Now even if a second jury has decided that there is enough doubt to acquit him that by no means makes it wrong for the police and CPS to try the evidence before a court.

Interesting read, wasn't aware of the situation regarding drunk consent. Case is a murky gray mess. Personally don't think Evans as a person comes out particularly well, nor do i like those using the result as some kind of proof that the girl was lying when she says she can't remember what happened.

Hope they can hold on. Personally I think efl was a decent compromise, helping academy players get a bit more real experience whilst not interfering with league. Sadly seems highly likely it'll only be a one year thing.

Decent result away against Leicester. Frustrating in some ways though as i thought we were the better team in possession. Ward Prowse failing to hit the target was a big moment but to be fair so were the Van Dijk/Romeu mess ups that we got away with. Thought Davis was excellent on the ball today. Romeu excluding his dreadful pass back was excellent too. Cedric was a loss and hopefully its something minor as while Martina is decent i think Cedric is a more well rounded player. Long looked dangerous once he was put up front. Should have come on earlier and for Austin rather than Tadic in my eyes.

Personally i think rotating during the group stages is completely the right call. We've already got 4 points via rotating and can't see a reason why we won't qualify from the group using this approach. Once we get to the knock out stages that is the time to start making the call as to whether we want to priortise it or our league position or trying to win the european competition.

Easiest selection decision ever imo, the team that played well and beat West Ham away. Hopefully they can repeat the trick and beat Leicester.

On the positive front we got the result we needed, an away draw. Utterly abject display though, could have conceded a number in the 2nd half. Feel sorry for Hesketh, didn't deserve to be hooked after 30 mins, especially when you consider how abject others were and how poor the the 2nd half display was and no changes were made till literally the last minutes. Man of the match Van Dijk, because he was solid defensively as usual though that header miss early on was bad.

I struggle to see why we'd sell van dijk's this summer unless there's a release clause in his bumper new contract. Surely part of the reason to hand out these new long term contracts was to avoid mane/clyne/wanyama situation & retain players marginally longer at least.

Listening to talk sport describe it as a problem with modern football. No it's a problem with dodgy old English managers. Had to go for such greedy stupidity. You'd expect it to be Southgate. Young, no baggage, has done well with u21's.

Things starting to come together under Puel. Great finish by Austin to get us the lead and barring a dangerous spell at 2-0 we were much the better team in the 2nd half. Really impressed by the midfield, Davis and Hojberg in particular were excellent.