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Agree with previous comments, Grealish is a fantastic footballer. Not very ‘English’ in style, very elegant, ball sticks to his feet and the game seems to just slow down for him. Love watching him, hope we don’t waste him. Delighted for Ings, great goal within 4 minutes of not being shoved out wide. Prowsey looked good too.

Will never forget walking out of St Mary’s after the first game of the season drawing against Swansea to hear people say ‘well that was much better than last season’. The denial was bemusing, it was dreadful from day one.

Kevin Davies?

That’s not true, Bournemouth fans loved him.

Wilshere has been released so doesn’t come into ‘cheeky punt before deadline’ territory as we could sign him whenever we want. Danny Rose is obviously available, but couldn’t be further from Ralph’s idea of a player with a positive attitude. Imagine it’ll be Yedlin.

Pretty hard to deny tbf, as he mentioned he was spot on with all the kit/sponsor details.

All gone a bit quiet - We thinking Walcott and Walcott only? Groß would’ve been nice but not seen any reliable link

Ralph seemed to say something yesterday about needing another ‘number 6’? So not sure why we’re getting so many links to full backs

Groß definitely has an eye for a pass, which is something we lack particularly in home games against teams sitting deep. I can’t see it happening, but personally i’d be very pleased with it.

Is it possible Ralph sees something in Williams that would make him a viable option for one of the attacking positions too? If he can play either side of full back and in a forward position, then it may make sense to bring him in as a good utility. Otherwise, I can’t see it makes much sense to use our only Prem loan on a back up full back when we have one for each side already.

Easy to forget that RLC’s only sustained period of first team football was a season at Palace which got him a start in the World Cup for England, which shows how good he was that season. I really think he’s exactly what we’re missing, someone to provide some forward impetus from midfield. I agree with above that he would be an Armstrong/Redmond competition, but also think he could play slightly deeper/more central and offer us a plan B in terms of formation and game plan, particularly at home against the weaker teams. We’ve lacked a midfielder who can pass forward and he can do that.

3 GK’s 2 RB’s 4 CB’s 2 LB’s 4 CM’s (Diallo included) 4 AM/Wingers (assuming Boufal goes, and counting Tella) 4 Forwards I think we’re one AM/Winger away from pretty good quality depth really. An Ings injury is a concern of course, but most clubs don’t have one prolific striker let alone a reliable backup. I think we now have 4 competent CB’s if Salisu turns out to be decent. A competent full back as cover for each side (Valery and Vokins) albeit long term injuries to KWP or Berty would be a concern for me. I think a Loftus Cheek type AM who can also play CM in games where we’re on the front foot, I think would be ideal, but be surprised if we get him.

I know we all moan but I genuinely do have more faith that Ralph wouldn’t let us sign any old shit like we have in the past. Djenepo, Adams, KWP and Salisu are his only signings so far right? Personally i’m a big fan of the first three (appreciate jury is still out for some) and Salisu comes with a lot of optimism. I don’t see us signing a Hoedt or Carrillo under Ralph, more likely we would prefer not to sign anyone at all. Thus I do get quite excited when we have new arrivals under him, but i’m sure i’m setting myself up for disappointment now!

Worrying lack of sideways passes in his youtube montage, he’ll never cut it here

Leicester have brought in £150m+ in transfer fees in recent years. We used to do that kind of thing, until we started buying players that we can’t even give away.

One of the reasons Ings struggled earlier in his Saints career imo was his tendency to drop deep to get the ball. Adams has done this job really well in the first 4 games of the season, leaving Ings free to do what he was doing best last year, get on the shoulder and find space where he can. I think Adams has been getting better every week since his goal against City, I really like him. He doesn’t need to get 20 goals a season, nor is he going to, if Ings can do that bit then Adams can do the graft and hopefully chip in with 8 or so, that’d be a hell of a partnership for a club of our standing.

Really enjoyed that because it’s not something we do very often - win ugly. Romeu MOM for me, played like he was after lockdown, think the early yellow card killed him last week and him being subbed made us collapse.

Romeu our best player tonight

He was a goal away from that probably being the best i’ve seen him play for us yesterday. I thought first half he was our best player, held it up brilliantly, played some great passes and got into good positions. Really glad that he seems to be finding his feet, he’s forced a few great saves this season, the goals will follow soon.

We fell apart when Romeu went off by the way..

We fell apart when Romeu went off by the way..

Really? I was even more wound up thinking Bertrand had got booked which was for absolutely nothing, then it flashed up saying it was JWP which was slightly less ridiculous. Are you sure?

On the plus side Che Adams looking absolutely superb, Ings sharp, Djenepo dangerous.

That was the effect of having both CM’s on yellows, Ward Prowse would’ve hauled down N’Dombele any other game, but ref gave him a shit yellow. McCarthy poor for that goal.

🙁 I took that as a hint