Baird of the land

Maybe the playbook says don't attack an opposition's weakness

Not surprisingly given the abject lineup we look to have no attacking threat

is ABK injured? When i first saw DCC was playing i assumed it was for Bednarek

You'd also think the miserable conditions might suit playing a target man too.

Fingers crossed sulemana can have impact off the bench that he had as a supersub in the Spurs game.

So Bournemouth are poor aerially apparently so we threaten them with Adam armstrong glad to see dcc starting, hopefully he can have an impact at set pieces onachu not even on the bench for a game that seems most suited to him of the remaining ones.

Not sure I see the sense in throwing Che straight back in from the start given he’s been injured. Start onachu and then use Che from the bench.

The ideal draw happened. Wish i was convinced Saints could take advantage.

I don't really see this idea that Leicester have an easier run in than Leeds.

I'm sure our management team will look at the fact that DCC is the player that has scored from corners for us and that we've got a 6-7 striker and go no lets not try and exploit Bournemouth's weakness. Let's instead pass the ball sideways slowly.

Bazanu KWP DCC ABK Perraud Alcaraz Lavia JWP Walcott Onachu Djenepo

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.