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He seemed to divide the fan base with his performance today. I thought he looked dangerous, some very nice tricks and flicks, but didn't really do the basics all that well. There's definitely a player in there, just need to get him working harder defensively imo.

Happy with draw, should have won but we cant defend corners and misses one on one keepers is ridiculous must be 12 this season. Overall battled much better than expected, great goal. Saints won the chucked seats about 7-1

Can't argue with that. Then you look at the league table and see them above Saints 🤦

Leicester sack Cifuentes. Can't blame them. 38 points from 29 games and 14th in the Championship is an absolute disgrace for a newly relegated parachute payments team. Pathetic performance.

Bree did well but shouldn’t that cause questions to be asked about who sent him out on loan only for him to walk straight back into our starting 11.

Does he/she have a preference for the 4-4-2 formation...?

Hand of cod?

Leo going off vacant forced his hand a bit to make the subs when he side as you can only have 3 substitute windows

Neanderthal

It's also worth adding that the January window is always more difficult. Teams are unwilling to sell mid-season unless they have a good replacement lined up and players are ridiculously overpriced. When was the last time we actually made a decent permanent January signing? Gabbiadini? We've had some decent loans like KWP and Brooks, but plenty of panic buys like Tall Paul, Orsic, Carrillo and Sulemana 💩

Yep. He's been really ineffective since the end of November and hasn't looked interested since Christmas. If we can get a decent fee for him and a good replacement then I agree.

Do we now get to call 25th January "Leo Scienza Day" and celebrate it with an open top bus parade every year... In the same way they get to pleasure themselves over a meaningless draw with their "David Norris Day" tinpot wankfest..?

So what different changes would you have made?

Assume they keep jars of amoeba in the stadium vaults to ensure the average match day attendance IQ doesn't fall too low?

Yep, he actually looked pissed off immediately after the goal. F*** knows why such an un-inspirational shrug-shoulders player is ever entrusted with the captain's armband when Stephens isn't playing (other than the usual poor managerial judgement of course) I'd be inclined to move him on in this window if we can get a decent loan replacement for the rest of the season, despite the inevitable howls of derision from the "yeah, but he's the division's leading scorer, innit" fraternity...

I noticed that, but I just assumed it was because he felt Scienza should've passed to HIM to score ... ?? Either way, not great.

Fair play to our players, can't fault the effort and we matched them in a battle, feels like the Skates allow their fans to get away with so much that we'd never have at St Mary's, deranged screaming from the front row at any Saints player touching distance, fantastic celebration from Leo to give it back to them

Noticeable that everyone tried to run over to Scienza when he scored but Armstrong just stood there. Body language seemed really poor to me.

For all his faults, he is exactly the kind of player you need in the derby

Sure SR have pocketed that already

Did anyone see what happened with Welington for him to have claret pouring out of his nose? Looked like something off the ball and Sky didn’t show any replays

Thought Pompey were good considering they had so many players out. The problem is for me is that we’re not good enough to beat them. We gave Pompey a huge physiological advantage by not starting fellows. Tonda is not good enough. Nowhere near good enough.

He actually had a strong subs bench today but used them badly. Hopefully he's stumbled upon a solid Back 4 being our best option. Bree straight in was a gamble but worked well. Matsuki was ok. Don't know is Scienza was struggling when the first subs were made but we lost the initiative with the subs. I'm betting Tonda will be with us at the start of next season, so let's hope he stumbles across a few more winning formulas because he's learning on the job.

Do we now get to call this "Leo Scienza Day" and celebrate it with an open top bus parade every year... In the same way they get to pleasure themselves over a meaningless draw with their "David Norris Day" wankfest..?

Doesn’t say he wanted the job, just that the club spoke with him. Described as an interview but it might have been a sounding out on both sides. As Holmes & Watson refers to, club might have set out the parameters they wanted a ‘head coach’ (not manager) to work in, and he said ‘not for me’. A concern before the Rasmuses and DoFs of the world is that they might appoint someone who knows more than they do.