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what the hell are you on about

redmond for boufal

he is setting the scene to say what a great job puel is doing in his post match comments. After declaring that he was wobbling on him this week #telegraphedsetpiece

HT obviously the better side. good goal Boufal working hard, more so tracking back but wanting the ball Clasie decent Yoshida and Caraces look decent as does Pied Long our best player so far IMO in a pretty average game

hurrah. at last nice goal

no, but working their keeper once would be nice, yes?

yoshida beaten in the air again....seems to be a fairly regular thing all that pressure from a very sloppy pass from Caraces

we had a shot!!!!!!!!!! awful one though but it is progress

still absolutely not troubling the oppo keeper

Caraces bails out Yoshida already great covering

if say, Clasie/Hoj/Long have a blinder today, wont matter as they will be dropped next game

#SaintsFC XI to play #Boro: Forster, Pied, Cáceres, Yoshida ©, Bertrand, Clasie, Romeu, Højbjerg, Boufal, Rodriguez, Long. with Davis not playing deeper and no tadic, think we will do well with that side.

Pied, Clasie, Caraces, Hoj, Long, Rodriguez all start

not that long ago, Tadic was the universal upgrade on Lallana

I wonder how many Bournemouth players we would have had in a saints/bournemouth 11 as both transfer windows shut? not many I would guess. But then, bournemouth have not played 500 more games

A3 B2 by the biggest margin possible

But it was the Europe at the high number of games in the 1st part of the season that was killing us?

It must be fairly obvious with the amount of throat grabbing that goes on.

yes, we were bad for periods last season and the credible ITK'ers told us he was 2 games from the sack. I dread to think how bad Pelle would look under puel with players 30 yards from him, or being asked to defend the left flank (like Austin) He needed long/mane playing off him....no way would he have got that under puel.

maybe Koeman would get the best out of his replacement?

not a puel fan then!

too late

Team I reckon......Puel stressed about the need to rotate etc Forster Pied Yoshida Stephens Bertrand Rom Hoj Redmond Boufal JwP Gabbiadini I think I will cry if we see Tadic start again and Davis playing alongside Romeu

I think that is likely to happen. His latest presser, he swerved comments about what he will be doing at saints next season, spoke a lot about a 3 game season and the requirement to finish top half and that 'other things' will be spoken about in the summer.

it will be red, with some white in a vertical stripe sort of pattern - FACT