The Curse of St Mary's

Ingsy had first team training session yesterday. Will see how he reacts before deciding on Brighton game. He looks good atm.

Brighton are not a bad side just lack cutting edge at times. We will need to be on song to win this one. Hopefully Ingsy and Redmond will be available. 8 days recuperation will help as we looked tired today. Stronger bench as well will help us manage games better hopefully. I would bring Ingsy straight back in and drop either Walcott or Djenepo. Armstrong not great at all today but he does suit our system and offers a goal threat.

Really good read. Romeu such a nice guy, well spoken and just wants to keep learning. Reading these articles about what it's like playing for Ralph makes you appreciate the intrinsic level of technical detail that goes into the way we play.

Coady not in wolves squad

A senior wolves player in isolation due to positive covid-19 rest. https://twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1330640370418540545?s=19

Only Ings out of wolves game. Ralph hasn't seen international players yet but thinks they ok. Not sure why he hasn't seen Armstrong yet as he played last Sunday and was suspended on weds. He didn't travel to Israel did he?

Tough game cus of our injuries. Just hope we don't revert back to our home form of yester year whereby we huff and puff without really looking like scoring before getting hit on counter. Ingsy and Bertrand are such key players that any team would miss them but just hope we are fluid enough now in how Ralph wants us to play and that we will have enough armoury to hurt Newcastle.

Bednarek cannot play if concussion so not sure why he needs to train today if that's the case.

Newcastle have faced most shots per game on average so far (17) and take 9 shots on average which is only better than Palace. So busy defense and quiet attack on the whole. They will try and use pace of ASM to exploit our lack of pace at CB. He is playing up front with Wilson atm.

Even if Ingsy ok for Friday (don't think so personally) don't risk him and rest him over international break that way he gets a valuable 3 week recovery period. Play Walcott with Adams and recall Redmond or even Djenepo. Can't see Bertrand being risked either if he has hamstring issue. I would prefer vokins at LB and keep KWP at RB rather than bring in Valery who will get eaten alive by ASM.

Ings not on crutches apparently which has to be a positive sign surely? Travelled back via car not team coach

According to Dan Sheldon he should be back. I don't know why he only has to isolate for 10 days rather than 14 days though

Blackmore saying RLC not active. Working on loan which reading between the lines will be a wide player.

I find the negativity around Redmond weird. I wasn't his biggest fan first season or two but he then went on to win both players and fans player of the season. We are definitely weaker without him in the side. Of course we all want him to run at defenders more but he is so important to how we want to play. He started the season poor likewise everyone bar Ings has really. But I agree competition is healthy for everyone.

If it's true Chelsea prepared to pay £100k towards RLC wages of £175k pw then saints should be all over it. Hopefully we are.

No RLC in Chelsea squad again

Yep I agree. PEH wasn't the only problem with our home form but he was a big part of it imo.

Apologies if posted before but I see Frank lampard open to letting RLC out on loan with us and Villa interested https://talksport.com/football/766459/ruben-loftus-cheek-chelsea-frank-lampard-aston-villa-southampton/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=talksportfacebook&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1601366348

No RLC for Chelsea tonight again.

Something's haven't changed still from relaxed Les days gone by. I do wonder whether we try and be too clever just to save a few pounds and end up missing out more often than not.