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Personally think he’s been decent in most games i’ve seen him, if not all. I hate 3 CB’s but surely the combo last night is the right balance if you’re going to play it; two big and quick defenders who are physical (Wood and Quarshie), and one who is good on the ball (Edwards). I can’t watch another game of THB.

Unless a lack of confidence means he doesn’t really want the ball

Downes wasn’t playing in by far our worst performance of the season last Saturday, but Charles was. All season last time round in the Championship people were saying how great Charles was but the results when he played weren’t a coincidence. If he could sit behind two attacking CM’s and just do the dirty work he’d probably be decent, but he is not quick enough up top to play in this team yet imo.

Personally really unimpressed with Roerslev so i’m glad Jelert looked good last night, should take his place going forwards.

Downes and Jander combo for me, Charles just not quick enough when he gets the ball - a good ball winner but slows us down imo.

I’m not sure what the motivation would be for the club to be forcing Bazunu into the team - it’s not like he’s a record signing who they’re desperately trying to recoup money on, and they’ve shown they’re happy to write off some pretty big fees; Tall Paul, Sulemana, BBD, ABK all going this summer at significant losses or loans. The managers must just rate Bazunu, regardless of what people think.

Is it bloated? Feels like we have/are trimming loads of the squad finally.

If that Sacha Tavolieri says he’s going to Paris then he’s probably at Staplewood for his medical as we speak - the Belgian Alex Crook

Of all the players seemingly trying to leave, Aribo would be the one i’d choose to keep if I could - to me he was one of our better players last season (not saying a lot) despite being hung out to dry playing CB under Juric a lot. Great on the ball, intelligent, hard worker, he’d be a good option in the squad IMO.

Did you watch us today? I’d sooner send Charles out before him, we have no control without Flynn.

I know he’s explained why he’s doing it, in his eyes, but I think the 5 at the back is very concerning as we do have wingers/players who can play there. It’s concerning as it comes across like someone who is scared and thinks the answer is just chuck in more defenders. Our defenders are crap, why play 5 of them at one time. Completely killing us and he’s effectively written off the first 4 games because he doesn’t think we’ve got wingers (which we do) - luckily for him we salvaged Wrexham.

And just like that, Jander confirmed

No one mentioning that Saints instagram has posted ‘Far from FINNished’ so presume we’re due at least one more today, would hope anyway!

Matty officially announced, so maybe now the dominoes start to fall…

His limitations are clear for everyone to see, but the reality is he is still probably our second best CB based on this season. Yes, probably a reflection of our poor recruitment, but why he gets so much abuse when others are and have been far worse is beyond me. THB for example has been an absolute disaster this season, but he barely gets a word.

We did do that at the start of the season, United and Bournemouth games i’m pretty sure we did at least - but Les was so, so bad in that Bournemouth game that he struggled to get back in again.

The first time we’ve so much as resembled a Premier League team under him was with Downes and Stephens back against Palace mid-week, so maybe he should’ve played them more and not the utter shite who don’t get criticised like THB.

Never looked quick enough for the Prem in the very few glimpses I got of him, but still time

Are people still telling themselves it’s better than it was before? 😆 first shot on target at 60 minutes, playing against another poor side. Awful football, awful selections, statistically worse than Jones, Selles and Russell Martin - takes some doing that.

Ironically almost all of those tactical changes came under the previous manager, who apparently wouldn’t change, whilst the current manager hasn’t moved away from this shite formation for a minute.

Les is fucking shit - Tonali just ran straight past him for the third whilst he pointed at him. It’s no coincidence we’ve conceded 5, 3 and 3 in the last 3 games he’s started.

You’re correct, it can be. But with us, it never is. It normally just means we are playing 3 centre halves who are normally 3 of the worst players we have, meaning more mistakes and more confusion. I’ve rarely seen us not be completely shit whilst playing this formation.

It always is, blows that my mind that people beg for him to start. If a chance is presented to him, he might finish it, but outside of that he is pathetic - weak as piss, no physical presence whatsoever, it makes me genuinely miss having Che Adams up top.

I’ve no problem with him, i’m not arsed if we let him stick it out - but i can’t get behind us going into next season with a manager wedded to 5 at the back. I can’t remember anything but pain when we’ve tried to do it in the past, and defensively we have been horrendous doing it under Juric. If he is truly stuck to that formation then get rid.

Am I only the only one who watched the game and therefore knows it was Bree who passed it to Bednarek for the second goal? Not sure why people are blaming Downes for it.