Baird of the land

We definitely seem to have shifted to a bit more pragmatism defensively which is good. Great to get a clean sheet. before we scored I felt we were a bit labored and too slow. Lovely goal by Stu and interesting to see him racing to celebrate with the manager.

Adams has been poor last few games, so can fully understand Mara getting an opportunity.

Very important win First half was excellent. Alcaraz, Sulemana, A.Arsmtrong caused them problems. Took our chances. 2nd half very concerning. Was it a fitness thing? Struggled to get out of our own half. Glad the bad piroe turned up because he had a couple of moments where if he'd been on it it could have become a lot more fragile.

What a let off Get Charles on

Too slow with the change

I'd take Sulemana off. Seems tired & now doesn't seem as switched on

Nice to see us look more of a threat going forward (alcaraz, Sulemana and A.Armstrong doing a great job) Less of the sheer stupidity defensively is nice(still the odd moment unfortunately)

What is manning thinking there

Crazy midfield. Why has charles been dropped(for trying to play dm?)

I hate that phrase 'outcome oriented', horrible management speak. Hopefully he's out the door if the result is as expected/feared today. Also makes me chuckle imagining telling my manager 'you can't be outcome oriented' to any task i've been given to complete.

Opposite for me. Russia silence would suggest he's dead. Ukraine over optimism for me, now they are talking about clarifying info over possible death, which hardly seems like they had hard evidence in the 1st place.

Apparently not

Bazanu KWP Bednarek THB Manning Sulemana Armstrong Charles Edozie Armstrong Mara

Hopefully the whole can’t play in structure nonsense will end like branfoot/le tiss with him scoring a couple of screamers next time he gets on the pitch.

So was the poll removed in the merger?

Not flukes but he's been at Yo Yo clubs. Taken Fulham down twice and up once. Taken a Bournemouth side that missed out in the play offs 1 step further. It is not without worth but it doesn't seem a great fit for a club that seems to be a complete mess imo.

I know i should be confident of us beating an awful rotherham side that are 2nd bottom but with Martin in charge i'm not. Under him we're the gift that keeps giving

They'd all require compensation wouldn't they. Parker seems another Martin to me who almost bungled Bournemouth re-promotion despite massive investment. I have been half joking about Nige but seeing those names i'm thinking i should consider it more seriously.

It is a real shame we didn't have months of an open transfer window to address that. oh wait...

Reminds me of a highly successful former saints manager.

Smallbone and Downes seem to be the same player, except 1 of them has hair. I really see zero logic in playing both together.

Tranmere have an excellent caretaker manager

Don't agree. I'd have had Mara on. We just made ourselves extra toothless. Pretty wingers with nothing in the centre for them. And Aribo didn't look bothered.

I thought removing our striker adams and replacing him with a midfielder was very odd. We then proceeding to try and cross the ball to our non existant target.

Total control of what? Also in what world did middlesborough do nothing in the 2nd half. Is he confusing the 2 teams. Did he think Saints were the ones in red?