Baird of the land

Ralph useless again at using his subs. Momentum clealry changed once spurs made their subs. So ralph decides to do nothing. Just infuriating.

Yeah but there's no way that gets a cursory 2 second check if that's one of the title chasing teams.

Bad VAR again. That looked like a handball(penalty) to me, certainly more than a 2 second review that was used. Fantastic performance by saints (just not the finishing/luck to go along with it) Sure we'll be made pay because spurs won't be that bad in the 2nd half.

Any streams of tonight's game? Tried hesgoal but doesn't seem to be working for me at least(ignore me its working now).

Surprised we didn’t go 5 at the back like last time against them. Bench is still ok imo even if we are missing the likes of tella/Redmond and livramento.

That’s bad news about lyanco. Was hoping he’d just be out for a month.

'stick the boot in' by yelling Maiow every time he touches the ball.

Very silly thing to say imo. Short term probably little impact as its still some way off. However if he's still here for that last year it'll likely be horrrible. Hope the club wouldn't accept such a scenario and would cut him loose early.

Yeah it worked well last time till Salisu's moment of madness. So while i think it was a mistake against coventry i'd be happy to see it on Wed instead of a 4-2-2-2

Shame his debut didn't go as hoped. Looked good going forward but hopefully coaches can work with him on his positional sense defensively. Was nice seeing before the game seeing KWP with his arm around him giving him advice.

Last time we played them we went 5-3-2 if memory serves me right. So something like.. Forster, KWP, Stephens, Bednarek, Salisu, Perraud JWP Romeu Armstrong Broja Adams

Not a good draw but at least we are at home. Other disappointing thing is how easy the big teams draws are. To have a real chance of winning we need to start thinning them out & i don't really see Luton/Peterborough or Norwich doing that.

Back from the game. First half we were awful and luckily got in one nil down. Just seemed nothing to our play. The 5-3-2 wasn’t the right choice for this sort of game imo. Small has to get better at defending. A few times he looked a threat going forward but that’s not the bread and butter. A.Armstrong reminds me of early Adams before he got the city goal. Looked a bit lost unfortunately. Of the fringe players Valery was probably the best but still had one horror show of a backpass in the 2nd half. The positives, it was a win. That was a glorious goal by Stu Armstrong.

Newcastle transfers are generally sort of calibre you'd expect given their situation. Most good players aren't going to go there while they are stuck in a relegation battle. Massively overpaying for steady players makes some sense. Worse case scenario the likes of Burn/Wood will help them get re-promoted.

Find the rumoured Cantwell from Norwich to Bournemouth very odd. His stock has really dropped / he must have really burned some bridges at Norwich.

You could easily go down a rabbit hole with a broad definition of dangerous which would be bad for the game. Players can get injured in all sorts of ways.

I just don't think it was a game suited to Moi. Shame our options for 10 were so limited today.

To me a glancing/raking blow like that might well be painful but i don't see the nature of the challenge itself as dangerous. If it is dangerous play i just think that widens massively the notion of dangerous play. Any sort of lunging challenge regardless of whether the ball is got rather than the man becomes dangerous which is a major issue in a contact sport like football.

To be fair its nice that he isn't going for the easy 'we didn't play well' excuse. Saying they played well is good praise for us.

I really liked how spiky he is. Got in the face of the city wingers and didn't let them settle.

Annoying hearing analysts on sky talk about potential red. 'Laporte' didn't get out of the way. Glancing blow seems the perfect description as it was vertical rathr than horizontal direction of contact.

I thought they were all the same size but a google search does seem to suggest ours is one of the smaller. Makes sense with our pressing style.

Jinxed us now. We will probably get them in the cup.

Also nice to have a positive refereering display I was sure Var was going to intervene too but was positively surprised by the var official showing sense. The non penalty wasn't a clear and obvious error imo and while armstrong caught the defender quite high i don't think it was dangerous. It was a scraping one because he just missed the ball.

Absolutely magnificent display. Just a shame to concede from a set piece. Salisu was amazing, surely the club must be doing their upmost to agree a new deal with him. Good to see Armstrong back to something like his best. Still think i'd prefer to see Lyanco over Bednarek. Just has so much more to his game. Assume Redmond must have picked up an injury as Elyounessi was less effective.