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did Dobbin play on the left again on Saturday when he came on? What about Akachukwu and Edozie?

No chance seeing as we could have easily lost to Hull.

Fellows knows his own game, his strengths in terms of dribbling and limitations due to his lack of genuine pace. Edozie hasn't quite worked out how best to use his talent. IMO he needs a full season playing every week to really hone his game - all be it he should be doing it in training and he got a season at Anderlecht. Like every player, confidence is massive, but with wingers, if you are not 'flying' you tend to offer very little value. If Dobbin is being played on the left, Edozie seems slightly surplus to requirements.

An early goal for Larin really helped and instantly earns more patience from fans. Think the two of them can really cause some problems. He’ll have to go some to displace Larin though, who I think is the best striker in the league.

This is really accurate. Fellows is largely poor with his final ball. Excellent at the odd stepover, running down the wing and then passing backwards. Edozie isn’t a youngster anymore. He’ll never amount to more than EFL player, he flatters to deceive with the odd bit of flair. You can tell he’s low on confidence and needs to play regularly. He’ll never make a career here now.

From what they said on the Saints podcast he isn’t lacking confidence. When questioned about Pep saying he displayed some of the best movement he has seen, he replied yes he’s right or something similar.

I like both Fellows and Edozie, who are both great at beating a man, and/or winning free kicks. The issue is neither of them (and even Scienza sometimes) are very good at shooting. If they were to improve this and start adding a lot more goals, they'd likely be getting suitors in the Premier League. Fellows is good at crossing, which is good for players like Larin, whilst Edozie is probably more of a run into the box and cut back player which works well with players like Azaz or Dobbin running in. With regards to moving either on - we (currently) don't really have much quality depth on the wing as Dobbin isn't really a winger and not sure Akachukwu is either, with both probably being better through the middle? Sillah Dibaga looked promising but very raw.

This is in the Guardian rumour mill column this morning: "Losing 4-0 at Brighton is not going to do much for morale but it will make a team take drastic action in the market. Aston Villa have lined up Joel Ordóñez to solve all of their problems for the remainder of the season, if Club Brugge are willing to sell the centre-back" Signs they are looking elsewhere if we've demanded more for TH-B than they're willing to pay? Personally, this late in the window, having paid £20m for him 2 years ago and developed him, we'd be silly to take less than £30m.

Me too, but what is frustrating is that with both there seems to be more promise than actuality. For me Fellows is too lightweight and floaty, not direct enough, and too often disappoints with his final choice. Edozie can beat a man with pace, and there is a player there, but it looks like he might be chasing 'confidence' for his entire career. Ho hum. PS saw that Azaz pass again this morning for the goal at the weekend. It was top quality - the difference between the teams

Totally agree. Club are lucky that they have sold as many as they have. Would have been nice if they had used this game to acknowledge the shit show from last season.

I prefer Fellows to Edozie. His finishing ability is very questionable, but he creates opportunities for us, sometimes just by crossing the ball in to a good area. With Fellows, he will put a cross in by making himself half a yard, whereas the likes of Edozie and Scienza seem to want to beat their man all ends up before delivering.

Interesting hearing from Weat Ham fan- didn’t realise they were so unhappy. And that JWP called Nuno ‘baldie’

Getting an early goal is brilliant. Takes the pressure off and boosts his confidence. Not easy when he's not starting games, but hopefully we can still ride that crest of a wave.

Yes it’s on Sky sports+ https://www.live-footballontv.com/#2026Aug25

Think every league cup game is now.

Yeah the club will get the attendance they deserve. Ridiculous pricing.

Maybe they should have charged 15 quid and a 5er for kids. 5/10k more fans would have gone. Parents can then afford to take their Kids to their first match and possibly becoming lifetime supporters. More food , drinks, shop merchandise sold. Better atmosphere for the players.

Struggling to find out whether this is actually on Sky or not. Some places list it as being on Sky+ but I can’t see any mention of it on the actual Sky website. Anyone seen anything?

He may even have gone backwards since that game, where he looked confident of his ability to beat a man all ends up Now I am not sure he's sure.

No, he certainly can't in a Saints shirt. But his previous Championship seasons he has turned in 4/5 goals in fairly average to decent WBA sides. However, Fellows can do one of the two things I mentioned well, which is more than can be said for Edozie, who is doing neither of the two well IMO Edozie is pushing 100 appearances and has a total of six goals (none of which are more recent than 2024) and five assists (with three in a season being his best, which was the 2023/24 season) Fellows has 26 assists at Championship level and 9 goals over the same period since 2023/24 but has made more appearances, approx 120. Eight assists and 0 goals in his first season at Saints where he wasted his first 3 months playing right back for Will Still because he was convinced Bree couldn't play there and farmed him off to Charlton I think Edozie needs to drop a level or go to Europe to find his feet a bit. Personally I see very little development from the Edozie who came on for a debut at Molineux in 2023 and the one that plays for us now in 2026 and him leaving the club this summer would be a big old shrug of the shoulders for me. He's not developed as the club would've hoped by this stage and might benefit from a fresh environment with more opportunities and weaker competition

I don't see it as idiotic. Everything has gone up with inflation and i cant ever remember footie tickets being less than £25. Even for cup games.

I like the look of him and I agree that he could forge a very fruitful partnership with Azaz. Whilst he loses to Stewart in experience he gains in physical fitness and availability. IMO he looks like a solid striker at this level and given decent service he may turn out to be good\very good. Let's see.

Fellows can take a decent shot, can he? Edozie pulls players out of position and can beat a man, which in and of itself is a pretty rare commodity, in our squad at least.

I don’t think Edozie is crap by any stretch of the imagination but I wouldn’t lose sleep over this.

Morning all, The latest Total Saints Podcast is out now after Saints got their first league win of the season with a 3-1 victory over Stoke at St Mary’s. Plenty discussed this week: Cyle Larin making it three goals in three Divin Mubama’s first Saints goal and the impact from the bench Flynn Downes’ performance and those two superb through balls The defending for Stoke’s equaliser Taylor Harwood-Bellis being left out amid interest from Aston Villa What sort of fee Saints should demand for THB Whether we can adequately replace him this late in the window Finn Azaz’s importance to the side The slightly chaotic rock-paper-scissors penalty situation! West Ham in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday, with Russ from the West Ham Network joining us to preview it We also announced Flynn Downes as our Player of the Week after more than 200 votes across the different TSP platforms. 🎧 Listen: https://pod.fo/e/56dbfc 📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/qaWLhCIpv7o Interested to know where everyone stands on Harwood-Bellis. If Villa come back in, what number makes you reluctantly say yes? £25m? £30m? More? We’ll be back again on Wednesday night at 7pm to react to West Ham and look ahead to Millwall.