Saint Billy

Jesus wept, why oh why do we sit back.

Following the game on a football app which shows possession stats live, nearly every time Redmonds name comes up its folliwed by "Lost possession" or "Weak shot". If this app is accurate it sounds like no change with his form.

A good point regarding weather, hopefully our captain sticks his finger in the air before kickoff.

Gulp, you have picked the worse possible lineup in my book. Boufal, Austin and Tadic who are all coming into form and you would drop all of them. This is a home game right?.

How about if I verbally abused myself?, "I'm a fat b*stard", "If I was gay my boyfriend would definitely know I was here", "I'm ****ging my own wife thankyou very much", "I eat dogs and their very yummy", etc etc.

Presumably we will be fielding the red n white embryos.

And we have meh.

Oh haha.

Our we all running scared of Pompey then?.

Ok result. Played reasonably well without really clicking. Loved Bertrands response to the foul throw, very funny.

Initially voted for him to go, I am still not thoroughly convinced even though the last couple of games were much much better, perhaps he should have a bit longer on reflection and see what the transfer window brings. Bournemouth game will have a good bearing on the direction we are going.

Relatively easy group for England, poor enough for us to feck it up again.

Who's bringing the jumpers for the goals?.

Never been any different, we are not sexy enough for them.

Humble pie for me, I thought Pelligrino got the team selection wrong before the match, as it happens he got it totally right and was only let down by a big chunk of bad luck. Well played Saints and Pelligrino., keep it going lads.

At least they don't sit on the fence endlessly.

Hysterical tart here, two of our most unproductive out of form players on the pitch in Long and Redmond. I understand the backs to the wall approach but for fecks sake lets have a bit of theat up front

I just dont get playing Long instead of Austin against City. Unless we can hold City to 0-0, which I seriously doubt, we need goals, so why put a player like Long up front who cannot score in a brothel. It has to be Austin the inform striker. Long has to be kept out of the squad completely and moved on in January as whatever he had has deserted him.

Well that performance probably saved Pelligrino his job. Much much better all round, pretty much everyone had a better game. For me Boufall was motm.

Can't think of a better team to find our feet against.

Credit to Pelligrino for playing Charlie from the off, he will always get goals given the service.

I think this 2nd half will determine Pellegrino's fate.

Gone a little bit flat since we scored, hope we don't start sitting back.

Credit for Boufal for starting that move by tidying up in defence.

Some nice accurate long passing happening.