Harry_SFC

Fernandes back in and Archer or Downs in for Armstrong. Fraser deserves to keep his place IMO.

I agree. Not a massive fan but he's still very young for a keeper and certainly has some good attributes. Whilst I acknowledge his save ratio is poor, the abuse he's received to date is OTT in my opinion.

Obviously you look at the match winners Stephens, Manning, Bazunu but Charles was my motm. He's come on leaps and bounds.

People asking if Bazunu can win us points. Well there it is.

That's stonewall

Honestly he is dreadful

From the little that I've seen, Downs is the best finisher at the club. Could probably do with him on the pitch right now.

Got to be burying that

The lack of an out ball is killing us. We need more from a striker than we are getting.

The formation isn't working and we've got a real lack of quality in the final third. Get Fernandes and Downs on at half time.

Adam Armstrong is non existent up top. But then we all knew that would be the case, didn't we?

Not got a problem with that apart from AA upfront. Everyone knows my views on that. Get Downs in the side FFS.

The referee has been horrendous for Birmingham tonight

Agree. None of the players who have been pulled from training are there (Aribo, Edozie, Dibling). Obviously the expectation is all 3 are going to leave but clearly nothing is done yet.

Obviously very early days but they've been really poor so far.

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Yeah I have seen it mentioned that Still is a big fan of this guy.

He's clearly our top target for that attacking midfield position. Let's hope we can get it done.

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Really not a fan of Archer on the left. Got to be Robinson for me.

I don't know the lad personally but can't see him wanting to move abroad after getting homesick going to London a few years ago.

He wanted to go back to Spain after he'd given us years of service and there were visible signs of decline in performances. It was fair enough in my book. As usual though we failed to replace him adequately.

Doubt it's true in any way but we probably do need another CM this season. Aribo going, Smallbone might be moved on. Would leave us with Downes, Charles and Sesay.

Exactly. It sounds like Saints have put a very good contract offer to him. There's nothing stopping him signing it and helping us get promoted this season and maybe help us stay there before moving onto a top 4 club if he excels. He's still very young, there's no massive need for him to jump ship now.

By watching him play