Gloucester Saint

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.

Would have either gone wide (Dobbin) or landed in Christchurch (Bree or Scienza). Gavin could have carried on reading his Kindle and drinking his beer untroubled.

Our strangest signing in living memory. Can’t finish like a striker, no pace for a winger, doesn’t go past people, not much passing nous or vision for a #10 so no use in rotating with Azaz, not much physique.

Lankshear is the difference. Gibson backed Whiny Kim from the Hackney funds and Tonda kept his job but whilst he got Larin, the lack of a second striker is fatal even though we sold Charles and THB and I’m not sure what Dobbin is supposed to be.

Element of that and only West Ham got the job done today. Hopefully Flynn and Jandar back for West Ham.

It’s a shocking decision, even the Bolton fans are baffled. That said, just seen the Bree miss which is an open goal from five yards, and Saints can’t be moaning about being hard done by when that flies over wildly over like a Twickenham try conversion with Bazunu not even in the frame. If you can’t score from five yards, and that’s without the Scienza and Dobbin sitters, then far from automatic that you’ll hit the target from 12, even though we should have been given the opportunity at least.

Yeah, at least one should have gone in. Really, really poor signing and footballer. False striker? Nope, useless at that. Actual striker? No presence, movement or finishing? #10? Supposed to be his best position but looked no better there. Left midfielder/winger? No pace, penetration or bottle, dreadful there at the start of the season.

Well organised, Schumacher doing a good job. Can’t miss multiple sitters like that and still win.

Garbage, didn’t work hard enough. Even if the referee gave the penalty, do you honestly think we’d have converted it? Players need to be up for it every game and today they weren’t.

Gavin could have loaded up a detective fiction on his Kindle and read it on a deckchair and several pints of Verdant Forest on the go on his line, so little has he been worked, so appalling has the finishing been and the lack of work ethic to make the breakthrough.

Just odd not to try Muamba, at least he’s scored this season. Lewis Dobbin couldn’t score in the red light district with £250 in his wallet. Making even David Lee look like a good signing at the moment. £9m could have got the striker sorely needed.