Saint Billy

Agree with you. As much as I love the high press game I don't think this squad can perfect it adequately enough, we lasted 5-10 minutes yesterday causing them problems then either ran out of steam or lost their focus. I think Ralph is struggling to get a mediocre bunch to play the type of game he wants them to play and in desperation tinkers with formation and squad to try and improve things. The buck stops at the top of the chain with their failure to give Ralph the tools to do the job properly.

Agree.

The first 5 minutes we were excellent, the next 85 were complete excrement. Ralph cut a forlong figure holding that same look as the last three managers before him. What a mess again.

Double meh.

Meh

What's this, CB going all Glasgow on us

Who mentioned financial year?. Over the last 2/3 seasons we have wasted vast amounts of money for a club our size on players, some of which are still owned by us because no other club will pay anything close to what we did. Hardly pearl clutching when we are left with a side barely capable of keeping us in the prem and with little to no budget to improve the squad, probably due to our past negligent overspending on players like Eylounoussi.

If any other business lost 66m I would like to know what happened to the person responsible.

Hopefully Ralph won't fall out with anyone this week and he has a full squad to play out of position.

Ralph is the best we can hope for atm, we are not credible enough to temp anyone better. We haven't got a Cortese selling the bright future to a potential managers any more, just some unknowns offering nothing but self sustainability.

As bad as our defence is, all this tinkering and constant changing of players and positions is not helping in the slightest. Pick your best defence and stick with it giving the players time to settle and gel with their team mates. Atm it's pretty much a changed defensive lineup every game.

Wow, listened to the commentary on 5 live with Pardew as co commentator and they were extremely complementary abouts saints performance, obviously from reading this they were badly wrong. Tbh, we should of got at least a point playing against 10 men for so long.

The horse hasn't pressed charges.

After seeing him being consoled by Jack S last night makes you realise how much he is suffering atm.

Hopefully our lot would challenge the horse to a duel.

Piers Morgan just mentioned it and called the skate a scumbag.

Good one, cheers.

Ask for a fourth please.

Ugly display but at least we are beating the fish fiddlers.

Would love to see Adams get off the mark.

With you there.

Horror show

So you don't reckon he'll play a weakened side?

This is an observation not particularly regarding football ability, but the Bournemouth side looked more athletic and fitter than us. In general our bunch looked like a team of plodders.