Baird of the land

I'd prefer to see Liverpool win and increase chance of everton relegation.

Thought maybe i'll listen to football on radio. Ohh wait bbc gone for the man city game because that'll be as interesting as watching paint dry.

Watching Utd struggling is at least a small silver lining to the pain of Saints giving up on the season in March.

I think as a squad we're comparable with the other teams battling for 10th in terms of quality with an underperforming Leicester leaving 9th door ajar. Unfortunately as has been shown once the desire & effort goes quality is all for naught.

If the answer to a question is a 35 year old goalshy striker who's contract is expiring then the wrong question is being asked.

Personally i've been far more impressed with Lyanco's limited appearances this season than with Bednarek's. Lyanco wasn't great on wednesday but nor was bednarek. To be honest was surprised lyanco played 2 games in 6 days after being out so long.

For me the main needs are Gk(we’ve only one under contract), DM (our only one is over 30 and needs refreshing) & striker (we’ll be losing both broja & long with Armstrong having struggled to adapt too) i also think 10 is important( personally I like Armstrong and I like tella. You’d hope we could shift a couple of djenepo/Walcott/Redmond/ elyounessi I don’t see cb that high on the list unless we sell salisu(I hope not), we sell bednarek(yes please)

They aren't representing Russia or Belarus, they are working for themselves, not even living in Russia. This isn't Davis Cup. Restricting whether someone is allowed to work based on their ethnicity is wrong. If people are stupid enough to want to support Lewis Hamilton because he was once born in the UK but ran off to Monaco at the earliest opportunity that's your idiocy. Pretty sure UK isn't at war with Russia currently so yeah we shouldn't be shooting any russian soldiers. Ukraine's forces are quite within their rights to be shooting invading soldiers. Soldiers aren't innocent casualties regardless of how they were recruited.

It doesn't get that message across at all. It sends a mccartyite message of coming after people based on ancestry. Russian media won't even have to spin it as punishing someone for sin of being born in russia when not even representing Russia is going to engender outrage. It even bans players who have been anti the war.

Forster Kwp lyanco salisu perraud Tella diallo jwp Redmond Armstrong adams

Curious to see if at weekend we try and freshen it up and he is dropped for Diallo

I’d prefer to see someone else starting rather than broja at the moment(even if I do think he has potential) However today I have some sympathy as for over an hour he was isolated by a manager determined to lose to Burnley at all costs.

The worrying thing from Ralph's comments is that he was happy with the 2nd half display. There was a 5 minute spell after he eventually made a sub where we had a couple of chances for adams but that was about it.

I'd do hope we get a good 10 in. However i'm struggling to understand Ralph's persistence with the starting both Armstrong & Elyounessi. Redmond as he showed tonight has the ability to cause teams problems even if he's not perfect. Equally imo a game like tonight was screaming out for the direct running of Tella.

Livramento looked to be playing RB in a 5 to me. Even if it was a 4-2-2-2 why are you brining on a RB to play a 10 when you've got other options on the bench.

Yes the brief spell where he played our best rb out of position before he reverted to 5 at the back by subbing him off for another RB. He's a tactical genius.

If that display puts the 5-4-1 formation in the bin it would be the only positive from that outing.

Not clearly in out or in camp. Will say i'm getting very sick of this 'look very good in a handful of big showcase games' but go through spells of looking clueless. Same tactically at times you'll think Ralph is getting better and then you have games like today where you think Ralph's IQ is subpar.

Why would you want a like for like change when 2 nil down. KWP was playing like more of a right wing before he was subbed.

That doesn't explain the manager's deliberate hamstringing of the team and slowness to react.

What you think all the other subs got injured warming up?

Great bring on a right back rather than an attacking player. Caps a truly appalling management display.

Too much to expect our manager to take off an anonymous player

One of those ones where you want adams to have some composure rather than lashing the ball.

Marginally better actually having a 2 forward player. Still no clue why we are playing 5 at the 5 back while 2 down away to burnley.