Gloucester Saint

Dawson from red ball. Orr to Middx for starters, Fuller going although he’s replaced by Fynn-Prentice probably. Quite a few who were out of contract as well.

They’ve just nicked the Rose Garden Sunday Morning idea from Hegseth and Trump. MAGA UK branch. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr3elnevylywo

European ambassadors attacked with iron bars by lunatic Israeli settlers. Strong condemnation without qualification from the IDF and Foreign Ministers but no surprise Netanyahu excusing and enabling it, and probably along with Ben Givr somehow behind it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c962ydpmjm3zo

Like Dobbin at PNE, Tom Fellows looked a shadow of the vibrant WBA version yet again. With BBD, at least he’d had a shocker at Villarreal beforehand. Can’t just be down to the individual players that they arrive confident and look emasculated and completely shorn of confidence in a Southampton shirt within months of arrival.

Keepers only make mistakes if you shoot at the goal with basic accuracy or test them with crosses which have whip/pace on them/attack them, none of which happened.

Muamba perhaps is indicative of the players around him in pre-season. But with Dobbin the club have to work out how PNE got a tune out of him and whether the shape/formation/pattern needs to change and whether that’s worth doing. He’s been tried in three different positions and bar the OK second half midweek has looked like a fish up a tree. No lack of effort and seems like a decent lad but if the question was ‘who can rotate with #10 with Finn?’ he is not the answer. And not at a fee which should have bolstered the forward line.

Give the lad a try. Tonda doesn’t fancy Muamba and Dobbin a total waste of a shirt. Can’t do any worse and his name will terrify Blackmore and Tessem!

Didn’t need to spend £9m on Dobbin though who isn’t even performing when used a #10 let alone wide or up front. Today was the day to try Muamba again but becoming crystal clear Tonda doesn’t trust him or he isn’t training well. Didn’t even need to be Lankshear, could’ve been Tolaj or someone half-decent. Third of the cost of Dobbin/whatever he’s meant to be.

That’s one heck of a floater to leave in the team bath.

Edozie has done alright last two games. Long way still from what he was before Jack Stacey hacked him, but progress and at least he’s actually going at full backs and getting to the by line. Should have had an assist today but he crossed to an idiot.

Saw it happen to Danny Wallace clean through at the Archers End when Shilts joined Derby. Danny Wallace is one of my favourite players ever for Saints though and scored regularly. Lewis Dobbin never looked set there and hardly surprised it trickled wide. Loan him out in January and if Tonda wants a #10 then get him a #10. If he wants a striker, get striker, ditto a winger. No idea what this bloke is but he looks like another BBD type round peg in a square hole. The only player I’ve seen recover from such a bad start was Ricardo Fuller (mistake to sell him to Stoke). Generally, better off to move duds on quickly. Another club might think ‘hasn’t settled in the south’, and get £6m back, and move on.

Abysmal referee but we’d still have missed it judging by the atrocious and unprofessional missing of sitters through the game. Should have had the opportunity but should also have been 3-0 up by the that point. Easiest afternoon Bazunu will have all season.

Less conviction than a bribed judge. I didn’t even need to know the outcome in advance because nothing in his body shape suggested that was going on target. How on earth did he score 14 goals last season?

Strangest signing ever. None the wiser as to what position he’s meant to be or any strengths, apart from a couple of nice turns at Carrow Road.

The side and formation isn’t what I’ve chosen but look at the video horrors on the sitters missed. Dobbin, twice, was bad enough, and Leo, but Bree’s belongs on a comedy clip. The manager can’t micro manage to the point of ensuring professional footballers at elite levels keep their head over the ball in front of an open goal, no keeper, 5 yards out. The same player who was so composed on Sunday with a harder chance.