Baird of the land

Make sub Ralph. Bring Adams and Tella on.

Trying to concede any time the opposition have the ball. Don't get Saints desperation to slowly work the ball out wide. We don't look the slightest bit threatening. For all the time on the ball only efforts i can remember is 2 offside shots and a JWP shot which Raya made a camera save for. Going to need favours from Arsenal and Chelsea to stay up at this rate which is truly pathetic from position we were in in March. Just saw Ings has at least done us a favour and made it harder for Burnley to catch us.

Any other streams? The weakstream one just died.

Great comedy swipes from our attackers.

Truly pathetic. Be really lucky to avoid relegation.

I don't see the need for a young prospect at all. If a B keeper comes through and impresses on loan great but it's hardly a straightforward position to develop players at prem level. I'd prefer to be singing a GK in the 24-26 age range given they tend to peak later. Old enough so they've got proper experience under their belt at a decent level. I don't have a huge issue with keeping Mccarthy but you want to be signing someone who can compete with him immediately and ideally sooner rather than later make him the bench keeper.

After reading the Guardian's blurb about the game where apparently Ralph Hassenhuttl's side has put in a few decent displays of late. I'm now worried that Ralph must be moonlighting as a manager of another football club.

Love Seeing City fail at the thing they want most.

I'm hopeful we'll get at least 1 point from here in. I do feel the we can lose every game brigade are a bit overconfident of Arsenal/Chelsea being incapable of dropping a point to a lesser team despite recent evidence to the contrary.

If we don't get another point feel we could well get relegated. My hope is that we can scrap a something from the brentford game ideally or if not last day against mid table leicester.. I could see everton getting the 8/9 points necessary(beat watford, brentford, palace etc), Burnley getting 6(beat Newcastle & Villa) and Leeds scrambling 7(beat Brentford, Brighton & then pulling a shock result like everton just got agasint say arsenal.. It's a pitiful state of affairs that we collapsed to this position.

Maybe the distant 'threat of relegation' will stimulate saints team to ditch the flipflops.

A very good bad weekend capped off by that everton win. Suddenly looking tighter than i'd like now, especially given Saints downing of tools.

Lyanco, livramento and perraud have been a good buys for the money broja a decent loan signing. Walcott a free that didn’t work out. armstrong is clearly the big issue given the size of the fee. If he doesn’t turn things around it makes it more of a steady window than a good one.

Hardly, We made the playoffs. Still bemused it took saints so long after his fa cup final appearance to give Baird a run in the team. we were shit when Andrew Davies won it despite only playing half a season.

KWP for me. JWP second placed.

I'm hoping Forest come up. All for a bit of change in teams.

I hope whoever we sign eclipses mccarthy's performances. However, McCarthy's been first choice for multiple year's and the sky hasn't fallen in so response seems hyperbolic. He's a serviceable prem keeper.

It's not a shock we are going to move on towards a younger less expensive keeper. I hope by younger they mean 24/26 not 20/22.

Wouldn’t be at all surprised if wan bissaka followed the zaha path back to palace.

We've got Valery, plus Ramsay coming back too. If we are going to bring in someone in as cover id assume it would be a young player on loan or a unproven potential(thierry small) type of deal.

Well the adams one would have been on a plate if he hadn't thrown himself on the floor in the 1st place. But yeah i do agree we didn't create a wealth of great chances for them from our spells on top of the game.

Long had a shot at top corner(when he probably should have passed to tella). He also had the one where he took way too long over and got tackled(when he likely was wrongly called offside). Adams had the early chance for the rebound from Livramento's shot.

Happy with the spirited comeback. Much better 2nd half display. We still look really fragile defensively(the disallowed goal for instance) Really happy to see Tella back starting. Caused them problems with his direct pacy running and involved in both our goals. A shame he cramped up when we were pushing for the third. Lovely goals from JWP and a good all round display from him. Adams was a real presence up front too.

Was it livramento's knee or his ankle he's done? CB's haven't been great again. Romeu has been awful today again too. Need to get diallo on for him. Pace, That's why we need to play Tella more often. Adams has looked good. Just a shame he didn't stay on his feet before the early rebound chance.

Generally ok with team. Happy to see Tella starting. Disappointing to see Long, says something about his faith in Armstrong though