Baird of the land

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.

On the positive side. The team fought for the point. A few chances created in the 1st half. On the whole though really abysmal. Clinging on desperately at home. No identity at all. Bizarre quadruple sub that seemed to make us weaker. Time surely has to be up for Ralph.

So amateur that our sub isn't even ready to come on.

Don't understand why we have all 11 so deep from corners. Just brings pressure on us even if we win first ball.

Would have been unlcuky if it got chalked as goal imo. Would open up a can of worms if that got disallowed.

You'd hope that'll be 4-3-3.

Interesting. The stoke thing is an obvious worry but stoke have been a basket case club for quite a few. Done extremely well twice at Luton, so could get behind the idea.

It does seem to fit with chelsea’s New owner scattergun approach, deciding they want Lavia on transfer deadline etc. Concerning that he is so desperate to get out the door so Soon though.

Personally hoping we have ability to recall in Jan. Used correctly I think he could help us.