Baird of the land

Does the 3 on target count the 2 disallowed goals?

It struck we with that chance at the end, KWP in the past would have crossed but had no faith in any of our players being able to shoot straight that he thought let's just have a whack myself. My tiny positives. Mccarthy a couple of half decent one on one stops. KWP, he really must be looking forward to getting a transfer away. Same with Lavia. Djenepo, one of the very few players other than KWP willing to try and take anyone on. You'd think based on that he'll be more involved than garbage like Aribo/Orsic/Edozie. I'd even throw him in at LB instead of the awful perraud.

What is the point of Aribo. Slow and can't control a ball, why are playing this clown? Also how did perraud manage to complete 90 minutes, he was horrific.

Get perraud off and get one of the kids on for last 10

Really i’d Prefer to see Ballard or Doyle to Walcott/aribo.

We just go backwards way too often, at times there doesn't even seem to be a thought of not playing safe.

What is it then?

So does the position of the arm make no difference? Is all the talk about unnatural position nonsnense or is by his side like that judged unnatural?

Think in the premier league their player gets red carded for that assault on KWP.

That penalty decision left me bemused. I thought it was about being in a natural position, which lyanco's most certainly was. Lots of Saints positivity in the middle third but the last third is truly hopeless. Who would have thought A.Armstrong scored a load of goals at lower league level. Mara's effort at the end was abysmal. Hopefully we put a few of the kids on.

No bednarek, woo hoo! intersting to see lavia stays, obviously no concerns about his durability. Was hoping Ballard might get a start, but at least good to see a couple of kids on the bench.

Would like us to play 4-3-3 mccarthy kwp abk dcc salisu alcaraz lavia jwp sulemana onachu Djenepo

Yeah Lavia has been excellent abk has been very good. outside of that. Far too many attempts to be too clever. tall Paul looks at winning aerial duels& holding the ball up but if you are playing crab football then less so. sulemana, looked bright under jonesball but under the return to Ralph ball where we don’t seem to value pace much less he has looked flat. My main issue with his signing is splurging a massive fee on a pacey winger (when we already had one on our books who’d shown flashes in Prem and is tearing up championship) let’s hope he’s willing to play in champ. edozie, there’s a player that really needs a season’s loan in the champ to develop. Well he’ll probably get it next season with us. dcc. Weird is all I can say. We looked to be improving with him at cb. Then he gets the red card and disappears and we are now using shitnarek instead. orsic, weirder. I thought signing a 30 yr old was odd. But signing one who isn’t deemed ready for Prem is plain bizarre. alcaraz, looks like he might score, then scores and then is disappeared under this return to unthreatening shape. Really hoping we go back to 3 in mid and he can deliver on that early promise. mara, very odd flashes of potential. Seems a lot of money for that though. Hopefully he can develop next season. bazanu, bad signing, like others signing a league 1 kid and expecting him to float in our team was crazy. He may develop despite this season’s effect Ray or may be that someone else will buy him because he’s young and think he’s the next rams dale larios,garbage signing. Like some others think he’ll get eaten alive in champ. Will end up probably having an ok career in Spain. Also odd as Payne impressed in league cup and then club bought kid to block his path.

Now wondering if the whole thing was a publicity ploy (given they now say they are releasing the original worded version too)

Had some Saints coaching for a couple of weeks, to get running with the ball out of him.

My concern is that some of the garbage will be unflushable.

Expect us to win next week just to get everyone's hopes up again.

Truly abysmal performance by Saints. I think i can remember 1 shot on target (and that was a long range 1 by Onachu) Pathetic goal conceded. Really hope that is the last time Walcott plays.

I dislike bednarek but that's not a penalty, Bamford initiaies the contact.

AMN was ok last week but yeah i don't get the logic in not playing 1 of our best players because we won last week.

That was bad. AMN being exposed. Lucky to escape Bednarek's normal brainfart too. Get KWP and DCC on please.

While i don't like our choices at the back, i do feel we should have chances to get at theirs as it looks weak to me.

Disappointed(but not shocked) to see he stuck with that lineup. Just hope it doesn't backfire.

No real shocks to me with an away game to Leeds next. A goalie who has been injured for months, our 3rd choice right back in this manager’s view, an out of favour mid & a young winger with no little end product.

At least to me it seems to me Geldof should be able to use whatever pronoun he feels like. Sam Smith seems just as desperate as prince was back in the day when he demanded to be referred to as a symbol rather than the name Prince.