Baird of the land

Don't see this he looks lost at all. Sure he's not the deadly Ings replacement we were hoping for but he's definitely deserving of being around the starting xi of this squad currently. Personally i'd like to see us bring back Tella and have him challenge for that spot but right now Armstrong is ahead of Walcott/Djenepo/Mara/Edozie as a starter.

Same battling qualities but a bit more quality in possession than in particular Bournemouth display Really nice to see us score a good goal. Carved them apart. S. Armstrong has to start for his intelligent movement. Elyounessi had one of his good games. Good defensively and played his part in the goal. Lyanco is one of my favourite players. Adds a nastier mentality, though hopefully we can convince him to avoid the headswipes. That was an awful dive by Walcott. Happy with ref as it would have been easy for him to give them one of the extremely soft penalty appeals, given they are top of the league.

Not the worst display by us. Good goal by Xhaka. Don't really feel we carry much threat though, even when we have a spell of decent passing. Most disappointing thing is the set pieces. Zero Threat from the 6 we've had. Surely we should at least throw in the odd play it short or threat of it. Also still dislike how we pull everyone back for their corners. Makes it difficult for ourselves when we win the first ball. Perraud really struggling with Saka. Also not sure how the ref only came up with 2 minutes added time. Though was sure he was going to give one of those penalty shouts, so positive from that point of view.

Adams Hamstring issue. Got to wonder why he's even on the bench.

Really stupid by mctominay

Not a huge fan of that set up. With us it tends to end up being 5-4-1 with the 1 isolated rather than 3-4-3. If we are going to go 3 at the back i'd prefer to see 2 up top.

Adams wins it. Honorable mentions to the cb’s stopping a horrible performance resulting in lost points.

A sensible board would ignore the result (against what will likely end up being the weakest team in the division) and focus on the dire performance.

Might as well give Payne a game given the lack of options. Wonder if we should go 5 at the back as our wide midfield options are awful and our cb’s look decent for once. Bazanu payne lyanco caleta-car salisu djenepo diallo jwp armstrong adams armstrong

I’m happy we got 3 points against the weakest team in the league on paper. but i’m Not happy that our approach was a desperate backs to wall and being relieved that Bournemouth lacked any real cutting edge. Ralph has to go.

That was pretty pathetic. Especially in the 2nd half where for the bulk of it we contrived to avoid having the ball. Fortunate that we came against a championship standard team. S. Armstrong was excellent when he came on. Surely there has to be a place for his quality on the ball in the starting xi. Adams MOM. Worked extremely hard, got his goal. He's no Ings/Lambert but he's a solid premier league attacker and has to play 90 minutes if fit until we invest properly there. No clue what we'll do without KWP. Larios looked lost when he came on. I don't fancy seeing Elyounessi play there again. A decent team would have exploited him more than once.

Better from Lyanco and A.Armstrong there

Brilliant play by Adams

Elyounessi is not a WB.

Who'd going to RB

We look completely garbage this half.

Nice marking by Saints

I feel we need to be going for the 2nd more. We seem rather too intent to rely on not conceding which we haven't exactly got the record for.

That showed what subjective nonsense is the endangering the opponent stuff.

We seem to just play ourselves into trouble needleslessly

Saints leading to their own downfall on that counter attack by faffing about.

Good play by Adams to salvage elyounessi's awful pass and then to pull off his man and finish.

I'd assumed Lawro had retired. Seems he was pushed out.

Every group seems to be coming out with this area must be completely protected. Without having any authority truss/hunt coming up with anything to restrain spending seems far fetched.

Watch Saints appoint him with view of help attracting crop of Liverpool 18 yr olds next summer.