Baird of the land

Yesterday I don’t think there was any blame for the goals on him. outside of those moments I thought the same faults were there that have plagued him all season.

It wasn’t really. taking off a booked attacking midfielder and keeping on a more defensive one. the move worked, making them struggle to break us down. A calculated gamble against top of the league.

Yeah, Diallo got owned for the 2nd. Not sure if it was Diallo but someone went missing for third becuase their mid was unmarked from a throw in.

That was ABK wasn't it.

Honestly i'd put much more of the blame on the freedom of the city they were given from the throw in.

Thought JWP was immense today defensively.

Well that was a fun match. Never expected anything. We didn't get enough really. A point does very little for us, really just helps horrible city win the title. I have idly wondered in the past whether DCC might be more of a set piece threat than our other CB's I thought Diallo was really poor and you wonder about if we kept Lavia on would we have conceded 2. The HT Lyanco move was brave, as it was a move that would have killed us if they scored one early. As it was Lyanco was just what we needed in this sort of game.

Alcaraz looks so good. Probably too good if we are relegated.

Had that late cross from inside the box. Until then he'd seemed anonymous even defensively. You'd hope sulemana would be on at ht

There’s an element of truth to that, given we’re an awful bottom of the table club. however, parachuting in players out of nowhere who haven’t even impressed in b team or off the bench is deserving of slating.

Think sulemana is on the bench as an impact sub. The problem is with starting lineup I struggle to see us being in the game by that point.

Weird tombola selection going on by selles. only eligible for this slot if you’ve absent completely from the squad. Mara clearly really annoyed selles by scoring.

Am sure i'll end up watching, even though the rational part of my mind knows Selles no attacker policy + away to Top of the league equals only 1 outcome and it isn't positive for saints(so i should just save myself getting worked up).

I did love this quote from one of the articles i saw on this .'I remember my grandmother saying to me 'I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black.'' That's some evidence there Jada.

I hope we play an actual striker. Of the 2 Mara is probably better suited to a game where we'll be chasing shadows I'd like to see Djenepo start but we all know it'll be the awful Elyounessi I'd still prefer someone different over Bednarek. Given how much Arsenal fans seemed to be put out by Lyanco's physical approach in the draw earlier this season i wouldn't even mind if it was him along side ABK.

Are you sure you aren’t misquoting Theo. In the interview I heard He was asked a pretty horrid question about why we didn’t play a striker and he batted it back saying you’d be better off asking the manager. To me that’s fair enough as if he was honest he’d probably be dropped for criticizing the idiot selles.

Elyounessi is going to be playing up front right.

What winning mentality is he talking about. Surely we are bottom of the league because we don't have a winning mentality. They certainly didn't try to win the massive 6 pointer today, they were set up to be completely negative.

Indeed. He may develop into something but to splunk that money rather than simply recall our own player was despicable.

See he's defending his 0 attacker policy and the useless Aribo. More fun negative games to come then.

Surely Ballard should be given experience in remaining first team games, now we are relegated.

Also why we didn't change much at HT, given we'd failed to score in a huge 6 pointer.

"We didn't change much at half-time but the game got slower for us and we were caught on the difference in the tempo and when we concede the goal, we were not able to come back into the game. This truly laughable by selles. That evil Hodgson doing something despicable like increasing the tempo, that's not allowed.

What a cretin Selles is. Set the team out positively and then fans will support you.

3 teams get relegated you know. Think that is why bournemouth fought and scrapped to beat spurs