Baird of the land

Honestly not a massive fan of Ranieri. I'd prefer to go for a younger up and coming manager even if we lose him after a couple of years.

Spells of bright play marred by complete cluelessness around the box. First goal was nice by Sanchez but if centre backs had of worked as a team it could have been shut out. 2nd was just awful. Thought the 3 in midfield were quite bright today. Gabby looked very off the boil. Can't quite understand our utter desperateness to work the ball out wide given how poor we are at getting on the end of anything. 3 corners, spoiled by twice not attacking the back post and once not having anyone on cech when he spilled. Got to say i'm fast running out of patience with Puel. Time for someone new and hopefully some good summer signings to add some directness to our play. Commentary really annoyed me, saying Saints fan would be happy losing to Arsenal and what a good season it is to lose as many as you win.

Decent first half. Thought for a period in the middle we were sitting too much but then we came on much stronger towards the end. They look a threat down our left though. annoyance is JWP put in 2 beautiful corners and both times no one gambled at the back stick either time. Gabbi you think would have scored his chance when his confidence was up during his early run.

Starting to look very composed. A definite positive from this lacklustre season. Next season ideally we'll have one of him and yoshida alongside van dijk or his replacement, which should hopefully offer a better physical balance.

Fantastic gritty display by Saints. Much happier than i've been about any of the last 3 performances. I can see why the stephens one was given as a penalty but loved the attitude of Saints especially forster doing everything to intimidate milner, who did exactly what tadic did last week(not close enough to the corner) which gives keeper a chance to make a very smart save. Don't get the logic of people who would prefer to see Saints hammered in exchange for having some shots. I want to see Saints pick up points first and foremost and away to a top 4/5 team that's how you get a result. If our counter attacking had of been slightly better would have been ideal.(Tadic flick to long etc).

Much better half from Saints. Very well organised display, though i think we are at times sitting a bit too deep and not pressing up on their midfield till a bit late imo. Still not sure this is a game suited to Boufal. Think Redmond's pace would be a better option.

Ill be content with a new manager who can win games.

Gazzaniga, martina, gardos, Jrod, austin, isgrove, caceres, taylor get rid of black, definitely leaning towards getting rid of puel too. Reed maybe needs to go as he's already 22 and has barely broken through. I'd keep long. Was very good last season & still does a lot for the team despite his horrendous goalscoring record this season. I'd keep Clasie & play him but there's no chance he's staying given lack of football puel is giving him.

Starting line up looked completely unbalanced. Worryingly Puel clearly didn't agree as his subs were to reinforce that set up. Not sure what Clasie did to get the cold shoulder. Scoring a goal and playing well a sin to puel. Is the coach behind our inability to put pressure on the opposition or is the team so lazy/disorganised that they can't do it effectively. Lost count of the number of times Hull would get the ball one of our plyers would close him down but the rest of the team wouldn't back him up and let him have an easy out. Hate how no one seems to want to take responsibility. The amount of hospital passes or negative passes backwards rather than trying to take the ball and drive is crazy at the moment Boufal, seems to be one of those kids who takes pride of beating his man 3/4 times rather than in scoring/assisting goals. Tadic, why have we got a penalty taker who can't place it in a corner? It was a good save by their keeper but if the ball had of been placed in the corner he wouldn't have saved it. Maybe we've been spoiled by Lambert/Le Tiss but it's really annoying to have a sub-standard penalty taker. I'm guessing cedric wants out based on the fact he completely bottled out of that challenge in the 2nd half. Positives, I thought Stephens was very good today. We didn't lose to hull twice this season!!

Truly embarassing watching how disorganised/lazy Saints are. When Hull get the ball we just give them nice easy options because we refuse to provide concerted pressure.

Being bossed at home by Hull, ohh how wonderful. Changes at half time needed.

Would really like to see some clinicalness from Saints, by putting hull comfortably to the sword. If we can't beat Hull at home you'd really have to wonder how poor our final league position will end up being.

Starting to get rather fed up of Puel, the positives such as the opportunities given to youngsters are being overweighed by his sheer tactical ineptitude. The set up yesterday was only ever going to lead to one outcome and that was defeat. I couldn't care less about how gallant we were in defeat, what i want is a manager who has a plan to get results against the top teams & not one who expresses how satisfied he is at getting beaten. Amazed it took them so long to sub Boufal too, he appeared to be a complete passenger for quite a time before he finally demanded they sub him. A league cup run doesn't mask how desperately poor we've been in the league as far as i'm concerned. Very worried some of our better players are going to be looking at the current set up and thinking it is going nowhere fast.

At least he competed for it unlike the saints players who wandered away from their men, acting as if their job of marking was over because the initial header from the corner had been won.

Predictable from Saints, zero concentration shown at a key moment.

It'll be interesting to see how we'll approach it. Poch attempted to mirror up formation wise with Chelsea at the weekend While it failed in the end it certainly caused Chelsea problems. Could we try something similar with Bertrand at the back and mcqueen at wing back. I'd really love us to give Chelsea a bloody nose but have feeling it will be a repeat of all the other limp league displays against the top 5/6 this season.

Not a fan of the way Puel set the team up today. At home we should have been more adventurous imo especially given city's defensive vulnerabilities. Really got to do much better against the top teams, this season in the league we've been pretty abject. The long thing seemed bizarre. Hojberg was poor and was amazed he both started and finished the game given how well clasie played last time out.

If Tadic and JWp are luxury players, then Boufal is a super luxury player.

Yeah don't get the fuss about Traore.

Bring back Cork of course. Perfect foil for Romeu imo. Sigurdsson, though of course i assume there will be a fight over him.

Got to say the best football I've seen us play is under potch. Remember going to Fulham and lallana, lambert and jrod tore them to shreds. There were certainly many positives from wba win but certainly wouldn't go along with hyperbole making it out to be some sort of perfection.

I can see the logic. Everton will need a reserve right back for a period till Coleman is back, Martina is a cheap free agent, seems to be popular in the dressing room and under koeman at Saints he performed solidly if unspectacularly apart from the arsenal goal.

Is hesketh still injured?

Typical attitude of refusing to accept when a saints player does well. Long played a very important part in the goal and there was nothing lucky about it. i fully accept long should be doing better when he carves out chances but that all the good play he's been part of these last 2 games. Clearly gabbi has s first choice but long still showing the value he has in a squad setup. Nice to see us win away against a solid team. Some lovely play and gritty defending. Good to see Forster recapturing some form. Centre back pairing excellent today. Unless there's an injury seems unlikely careers will play for saints. Great display by clasie, reminded me of how well he played in first leg against Liverpool.

Weakest bench I've seen for some time. Here's hoping starting xi play as well as they did vs palace. Good to have Bertrand back at least. Less confident than I was before palace game. I'll optimistically go for a score draw. Shane long to finally bang one in against his old club.