Baird of the land

Good to see a more positive result..

Don't agree. With exception of Wolves game we've been pretty good in a tough run. If he comes out of the the much easier(on paper) 4/5 games with bad results picture may change.

First half were overrun too often but showed some bright moments. Ralph made the right tactical move at HT and we played very well and got deserved equalizer JWP challenge was never a red imo. Not off the ground, one footed, barely catches player. Yellow card was right call but once he was called to monitor you knew he'd change his mind. 2nd goal came from our inability to put pressure on the initial ball by (barkley?) Felt we should have brought adams on for armstrong when down to 10, to give us a physical presence to aim for. Shame Mccarth's save for 3rd didn't count. His save at 1-1 was top quality. No doubt his detractors will describe it as a routine save. Good to see Tella finally get a game. Offered a lot with his pace. Hope he's a regular fixture in the team.

KWP has been excellent most of the game. The loss is on the ref for his appalling red card decision.

Not sure the difference between that salisu challenge and the JWp one.

I think that's a bizarre red card. He's not off the ground.

Chelsea are playing some very good football. We were fortunate with the first var as we weren't playing for offside and were cut to threds. just fortunate lukaku was a couple of inches off. Thought second var could havce been disallowed for multiple reasons(ball looked out of play too), so not sure why Chelsea fans are booing. Our threat has come from KWP/Tella on the left. Livramento looks off it today. Wonder if at some point we'll take him off for perraud and switch KWP. Wonder if Diallo might be the first sub for walcott, maybe changing to more of a 4-5-1.

Thought he had a few nice moments on the break. Decent strike in first half, just a shame it was down the keepers throat. Service to him into the box from midfield was pretty abysmal. Once again annoyingly Djenepo refused the quick pass to him when well placed late on.

Made 2 decent saves today. No fault for the goal for me, yes he ends up slightly left of centre but no chance of saving that regardless of where he is stood.

I think we missed his ability on the ball. Bednarek and Salisu are very limited in that regard.

Worst performance of the season by quite some way. Slow, ponderous, midfield refused to show any bravery on the ball. Thought prowsey was very poor. Twice in presentable positions to shoot and passed the buck. Goal we conceded was an embarassing long ball where bednarek was simply outmuscled. No clue why Ralph decided playing with 10 men(plus long) was a smart idea. Tella who was one of the best players against Sheff Utd completely ignored.

Pitiful by Saints. Every player wanting to shirk responsibility

What a joke bringing on long ahead of tella

Disappointed not to see Tella come on yet.

Really poor first half display. Seem really slow and ponderous so far. Need a massive improvement in the 2nd half.

I was concerned Stephens might be out for much longer, so 10/12 weeks while disappointing is somewhat a relief

Hopefully fact he was withdrawn was to save him for premier league.

perfect. Through with fringe players getting more gametime.

I assumed he was just being retained as the warm up keeper (like when we had Stuart Taylor)

10 points would be a very disappointing haul from those games. hoping for more like 12-14

Forster, KWP, Lyanco, Salisu, Perraud, Diallo, JWP, Tella, Djenepo, Adams, Broja

No, he was just ok.

I don't think he was paid off. I simply think he was influenced by the fact it was Man City, not quite as blatant as he first though and didn't apply the rules.

I thought it was(especially once given), put his leg across to stop the attacker and didn't get any of the ball.

Fab point and display by Saints. Still annoyed at the overturned penalty. Was so worried how long it took them to call Sterling offside.