Baird of the land

Other thing that annoys me about the penalty award is that Isak clearly has hold of aribo's shirt

See he got an assist in their win. hope we haven’t damaged relations with him from our petty antics and we’ll get to see him play for us next season.

Thought that was a decent display against a very good team. Next week is going to be the big test. i’d still like us to look to get the ball into the box more. would love to see how the game would have enfolded if they hadn’t been awarded that disgraceful penalty by var.

Did That’s what I wondered. It looked like it brushed his hair.

Pretty positive half. Slightly frustrated how little we crossed the ball until late. Isak is real threat and took his 2nd nicely. still fuming about the penalty award.

So looking forward to not having to deal with var. a really tough task made impossible by a system desperate to award them a goal

Hate var. don’t see enough there for penalty.

Apparently 1 win in 35 prem matches according to 5 live.

My point is Armstrong getting far more opportunities to be awful. i do agree today’s options are particularly bad. I even think Ballard is unfortunate to not even make the bench considering the attacking injuries.

So was Armstrong, who has been repeatedly poor.

I’d much rather try archer once with TP. (Not that I overly rate him)

How on earth does Armstrong keep getting starts

If that’s true I’ll be really annoyed Was looking forward to him being back with us plus I doubt using loan recall merely to milk extra money out of Wednesday will have endeared the player to us.

Maybe onachu and archer will finally both be on the pitch at the same time

Once again some positives to take from that late rally. Lovely to see TP score from a well delivered corner and help set up the 1st with a knock down from a free kick. If we can just get better at delivering those balls from open play. But we're not going to get anything only playing for part of the game. That 1st half was dreadful. Does feel that Les should play regardless of how fit he is, as we look different with him in the middle. Really hoping we can get charles into that midfield too once he's back. Downes looks a shadow of the player he looked like in Russ' set up. You can completely understand why West Ham were happy to sell him. Hopefully that's the last we see of A.Armstrong for a while.

how did they clear that

Completely baffles me how little we cross the ball from out wide when we have onachu on the pitch.

Is VAR suddenly becoming our friend?

Umm Ramsdale what a shocker

The immediate threat of onachu Knowing our luck it'll be offside

I don't really get why we've gone back to the try and pass the across an back anytime we get around their area. That KWP shot at the end is only time since i've been watching that anyone took any responsibility to try and do anything.

Saints looked so lackadaisical in the build up to that goal In particular why was kwp standing a mile off him.

Are saints ever going to learn about suicidally playing around with the ball on the edge of their own box

I’m assuming (changes) are a conditioning thing. Though does annoy me slightly seeing Armstrong getting a million opportunities.

Definite some shoots of optimism, though th collapse was depressing predictable You do wonder about the fitness levels. Hoping Charles returning can add something to the midfield depth.