Baird of the land

Smallbone who has been injured most of the season/ seems less of fit for new manager seems an obvious candidate for a loan move.

As someone who has watched quite a bit of Charles and rate him. I was happy for him to go out on loan and play (as he wasn't a great fit with Martin's approach, was out of favour and his confidence was clearly affected. Situation has changed now though we"ve got a new manager who seems a better fit and loan has revitalised him. On your 2nd point, I think he should have a bigger role. So I think it's much better if he's plays for us in terms of preparation for next season.

Would anger me if that's the rationale for recalling him rather than playing him ourselves.

Fab news. Hope he gets a run in the team. Wonder if we plan to let someone else leave. Smallbone maybe.

Guess it'll be the same starting lineup as sunday. From what i saw yesterday utd threat seemed to be on the break. Curious how they do in a game where they need to take the initiative. Hopefully we can frustrate them and somehow keep it close.

I'm desperately hoping we call him back. Think we are exceptionally weak in midfield and would love to see him used properly in midfield for us. Have a feeling it will be another tella situation where spend the rest of the season bemoaning our CM options while he continues to excel at Wednesday.

Handy there is no var

What was Sully’s finger celebration about. Has he been getting some stick from the crowd?

Very noticeable they don’t have a real cb playing and their reserve keeper is poor. at least it’s a nice confidence booster so far

No Abk even on the bench. Does that mean a move is close?

No strikers at all. How disappointing. is bree playing as a cb or is manning playing left mid

What sort of answer are we talking about. Seems to me Moyes is a pretty safe pair of hands, who will make the most of resources given to him.

Resource wise i don't think Ramsdale was a great signing. the whole goalkeeping situation was completely botched this summer so that we ended up splurging a massive fee on him at the deadline as well as beeing stuck with mccarthy for the future. Would be ideal if Newcastle are desperate enough that we get that full fee back this wondow rather than settling for less in the summer.

I'm excited at the prospect of a game where there is a slight prospect of a win.

I see the audio of the ramsdale goal has come out. Apparently mateta just rests a hand on him. what a load of garbage.

I’d argue it was a coaching misfit last season. Think he would make a difference this season as our midfield is extremely poor.

Disagree completely. There’s the benefit of giving him extra months to work with Juric, as well as helping saints avoiding a record low points total.

At this stage i'm waiting for a repeat of the whole Tella debacle. We badly need a CM, we've got a young international CM doing well out on loan in championship. So We'll refuse to recall him and flog him in the summer.

I would just like to see Onachu and archer on the same pitch at the same time. It may be a disaster but what have we got to lose at this point. If ABK is still here you'd hope we might see him.

Going to need a big performance from Les in midfield. Wonder if we'll see a start for lallana.

Glad to see i'm not alone in the need to multi refresh approach to get main page working

That would super depress me. Was really hoping to see him properly as a saint now russball is over. At least when we lost fella it was to leverkusen.

Has there been any news on Charles? Can he/will he be recalled from loan?

Can someone else please take set pieces because fernandes is garbage at them. Really struggled today to generate chances, especially after onachu went off. really hope against Brentford we get chance to see onachu and archer together. no clue as to why bree is playing. He’s an utter snail which is opposite of what’s needed in that position. no way their first goal should have stood and fernandes can’t be chesting it down to them on edge of the box for 2nd.

hopefully get les on at ht. Too easy for them breaking on us. I'd have armstrong off ashe's not done much.