Heisenberg

He's not great either. He gets better (in people's minds) longer he is out. Then returns and is error prone as the rest. The issue is that we have 5-6 CBs and they are all ****e We just have to hope now that KD is the absolute business

Calum Chambers started for Arsenal today. Fonte starting for Lille. VVD ballon d'or? It's sad seeing the "defecters watch" thread not being bounced daily anymore

Norwich, Sheff United, Brighton. Despite yesterday even Burnley

Yes fair shout. Could we realistically compete with palace though? Wages c75-100pw and wanted a 2 year contract. He's 34 v soon and played just 22 minutes of PL football last season Be interesting to see how he gets on at palace and how much he plays

I always place insurance bets as its money I'm happy to lose, but covers worst case scenarios So backed us for relegation although i would be surprised if we were (poorer sides than us IMHO) Backed Liverpool again for the title and CL + Pompey promotion Insurance bets works for me and has made me a lot last few seasons

Dumb and dumber Shoulda kept Fonte....

Didn't specially mean formation. Meant more the approach of setting up very defensively / negatively. We had this week in week out with Puel I think just now we can all agree that our back 5 or 4 is pretty weak? So for me our best form of defense is attack just now. That was Ralph's M.O. I thought? High press, good quick passing, emphasis on attacking sides? We saw non of that yesterday If you can't apply that against Burnley then we will struggle.

Never heard of him.

People still underestimating the mess and squad les reed has left us with. Club has needed to work under a massive handicap all summer and still has c500k a week of wages and £80m of transfers sitting on the sidelines. + the obligation to sign Ings. Saying the club should have signed an "experienced and dominant" CB but as always no realistic examples of who

5 at the back vs Burnley takes me back to Puel days. Ralph ****ed up yesterday and will resolve it. #haunting

If you've watched the man city doc you'll see how much emphasis they seem to put in video analysis and seemed to have 3 or 4 people across it. Pep would then discreetly adapt accordingly. City with the players they have could probably dominate most teams just playing the same way every week.... But still dedicate huge resource to this. Feels like a big gap now for us, assuming we haven't replaced Rohl internally. Just feels like a role that needs proper expertise as well as great awareness of Ralph and our squad to perform effectively. Could well be that Ralph has lost a big source of his powers (aware that he's worked without Rohl before) Time will tell

Grealish blows it for villa Kane deadly

Battle for the Saints no.1 super fan already hotting up... Think you super fans will be busy if you're going to spend another season getting hysterical about every post that don't say "saints are the bestest"

Could get messy. Would need to dramatically improve from today.

Positives.... Can't get much worse.

Sheff United snatching a point at AFCB?

Jay on to rub in some salt

Can we do a player count? looks like we have 8 players on the pitch and Burnley have 13 cheating ****ers

12 mins left yet - was nearly 4-0 then

Morgan sent off for Everton

they were right - we are disgusting!!

3-0 jesus this is awful

Ralph got this wrong today - back 5 against Burnley ffs + Vesty and Stephens