Baird of the land

Forster Cedric/pied Stephens hoedt yoshi targett Boufal lemina hojberg tadic Long

Gotta assume that’s the final nail in the coffin. A performance akin to arsenal, utd & city games was needed and instead it was an embarrassing hammering.

what’s really worrying is how poor we are at holding onto leads. Even wham game which we ended up winning it was after we’d blown a 2 goal lead. The football itself hasn’t been terrible especially of late though. Given the quality I think we have the current points haul is very sub par. The only card he has in his favour is the lack of an obvious candidate out there. As wba have shown just sacking a manager without having a good replacement up your sleeve is dodgy. So i’m Still somewhat on fence. I’ll wait to see what club decide. Just hope if they do sack him it isn’t just to appease the baying mob and they actually have a plan in place.

Forster Cedric Stephens hoed yoshida targett Lemina Romeu hojberg Long gabbi Subs: McCarthy, van dijk, McQueen, Davis, Redmond, hesketh, tadic

Crazy by borough imo. Wins, up to 9th in a very competitive league in 1st season & they sack him. Wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to him at saints.

Personally thought Redmond was frustrating. Very diligent defensively. His pace caused them all sorts of problems but his final ball was either poor or he chose the wrong option. I personally was very surprised he was the one to come off instead of Tadic who was very sloppy twice before their goal after having a very bright start.

At least we are playing much better. Just a frustration that both Bertrand didn't finish the game off with his chance and that we gave them far too much time to put in that cross. Still of opinion we won't do much other than mediocreness as we can't hold onto what we get. Really hope Hojberg stays in the team.

Second half much better. Disappointed we didn’t get all 3 points but an away point isn’t horrendous.

awful goal to concede. Started from Davis passing back needlessly, then hoed horrible dithering.

Forster(I'd still prefer Mccarthy because i don't Forster's desire or coaching team's desire to palm shots away rather than catch) but can't see a change happening Cedric(if injured Stephens) Van Dijk Hoedt Bertand Hojberg Lemina Davis Boufal Austin Tadic

Frustrating last minute but a very impressive display otherwise. Not sure about decision to take off Long. Austin was a bit pointless in this sort of game where we were living on scraps and trying to break quickly. Hope they can carry on this form into Bournemouth game. Hope Cedric isn't out long.

Should be on the bench at least imo.

I'd keep PEH in definitely. If Romeu's going to come in it should be for Davis, who might best be saved for Bournemouth game Please no last thing we should be doing is inviting City on by playing 5 at the back. Actually think the opposite, i'd happily take redmond's pace in for Tadic, who is very ineffective in these sort of away games. Though i'd happily take Mcqueen as another option.

Find it funny that anyone on seeing wba/wham/Everton/palace scrambling around for mediocre managers that they think the grass would be that much greener for saints. Personally i’m Very happy saints have pushed themselves back towards mid table security with this win. Things have hardly been perfect under Pellegrino but given we’ve beaten the bottom teams we should be panicking. Another big game against Bournemouth next weekend. Hopefully confidence from this display will help us.

Best performance of the season by Saints. Lots of quick passing. Clearly everton are a mess but we needed to put them to the sword and we did so comfortably. Gives the manager some breathing room & takes the silly monkey over lack of goals off team as well somewhat. My MOM was Hojberg, such a different player in the one and a bit games i've seen him in this season than his appearances last season. Deserves a run in the team ahead of romeu who has been average this season. Not Austin's biggest fan usually but if he can do that in the box regularly i'll happily accept the lack of his all round game. After reading all the so called fans at half time on the match thread berating the manager and the team just because Sigurdsson pulled off a worldy of a shot it was lovely to see the team show them up.

This season the premier league has depressed me. So many poor teams, such a gap between top 6 & uncompetitive rest. Saints just one of that poor pack.

McCarthy Cedric yoshi van dijk Bertrand Hojberg Davis Boufal hesketh McQueen Gabbi Time to try couple of youngsters & hopefully McCarthy over sir palms a lot.

Still not completely in the out camp, mainly because options being spouted are so terrible such as Fat sam etc. Though if i was told it was Adkins coming back i'd be happier in the out camp. As good as potch was, it still hurts how we ditched him.

First goal tadic was terrible. Undid all the work of being organised that we'd put in to nullify them for first 20 minutes by a moment of stupidity. Third goal forster was terrible palming it right onto penalty. Hope that isn't what he is being coached to do. Only relief is that there are so many poor sides in the league. Next week vs everton is going to be huge. Think Pellegrino will hang on till then but if he comes out of that without a positive result & display of some description his days will be numbered.

I'd prefer returning to Long and Gabbi to be honest but playing Long makes complete sense to me especially away.

Nice to see hesketh back and scoring

There was a period either side of half time where we were playing well. Boufal and Redmond in particular were trying to make things happen. Davis and Romeu were ticking along nicely too. Then worryingly either our team's fitness was completely lacking or the opposition changing shape meant we barely had any decent possession from then on. Austin did nothing when he came on other than being lucky not to be sent off after he lunged to poke on a ball he was too slow and poor to control properly. The goal we conceded was poor. Maybe being harsh on forster but he seemed tremendously slow in reacting to it. Personally i'm not sure the manager is the problem, more an issue with the combination of players we have. We need a new striker in January, one with some aerial ability. Or else get Gallagher back and give him a go.

First 20 minutes were absolutely awful. Then we started to play with a greater intensity & created a couple of chances. Still by no means perfect but if we can carry on playing like that in 2nd half there's a good chance we can get the win.

You can only think Pellegrino is rotating the centre backs in an attempt to keep them all relatively happy in the short term. Maybe Liverpool will make a silly offer in Jan for Van Dijk. Tadic has blown hot and cold this season but he certainly hasn't been utterly awful throughout imo Though not sure what Redmond has done anything to deserve his recall but JWP his free kick apart was rather mediocre last week. Just hope redmond actually takes on players given he's been given the chance.

Thought we started well and got a nice goal. Felt we were largely in control first half but didn't press enough for the 2nd for my liking. 2nd half i thought we were pretty poor. Really frustrating at the end how players seemed to be out of ideas & just passing backwards rather than try a through ball or putting it in the box. Think we really need to sign a target man in Jan if we are going to persist with being desperate to get the ball out wide for crosses. I'd have preferred 3 points away to brighton but they aren't a pushover based on their previous results this season. Definitely not in the pellegrino out camp either. Needs to be given full season to see if can get more out of us than mid table mediocrity which we are probably on course for.