Charlie Wayman

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You may have missed the earlier discussion. The pitch has a fungal infection that the ground staff are doing their best to eradicate.

Oh ye of little faith!

Not "Stu", he really hasn't got up to speed yet this season. He's not ready to start and won't. JWP had a poor match on Saturday so owes us a performance tonight. He'll stick with Adams over Mara.

Gakpo having legs is an essential part of any deal.

We have some player concerns going in to this one. Neither Stuart Armstrong or Mo Elyonoussi are showing much form or creating a great deal. Let's go with Perraud at LB and move Djenepo forward. Maybe time to give Oriol Romeu a run out alongside Roméo Lavia and move JWP forward on the right. We can win this provided the back four repeat their consistency of yesterday. Keep a clean sheet and it's a win for us, no doubt about that 1-0 or 2-0 to Saints. We can't keep missing from five yards out. Tuchel in for a shock! Bazunu KWP Bella Kotchap Salisu Perraud Lavia Romeu Aribo JWP Djenepo Adams

An entertaining game that was won by an out of the blue strike from a world class player. Having those sort of players on the payroll is the difference between a good side and a top side. Otherwise the two teams were very evenly matched and I would argue that we edged it and deserved to win. Certainly we were more cohesive and together than United which bodes well for the season and the automatism is beginning to emerge. Let's face it this was a free hit against one of the big teams and few would have expected us to get anything from the match. Our obvious disappointment with the outcome should be tempered by the fact that we ran a big team so close. As for the penalty dispute, it really shouldn't be necessary for us to rely on free kicks for our points, we had plenty of chances from open play but we still don't know how to convert them into goals. That's what we should be grumbling about, the lack of quality in the final third.. Top marks to all the lads today, to a man they played their hearts out and deserved a better outcome. Play like this on Tuesday and we could be in for a big upset.

It's not likely at all. Apart from the fall-out with RH he wasn't very good at scoring goals.

Two clubs at roughly the same stage of development this season with many new players and coaches. Home advantage to Saints, quality advantage to United. The newly minted Adams will be hard to stop so there will be goals in it for us but our defenders are still accident prone so goals in it for them as well. Looks for all the world like a 2-2.

Every now and then the Academy has produced a huge talent, it's time for the next one and Dom Ballard could be it. Well done Dom.

Yes they do!

Wishful thinking about Ballard. Ralph gives chances to kids but they have to earn it. Far too early in the season for that right now, he'll want to give minutes to his first team squad players. McCarthy Valery Bednarek Lyanco Perraud Romeu JWP Diallo Armstrong S Adams Redmond

Great to have a win at last but not a very entertaining match. Both clubs clearly unsettled and destabilised by the transfer window, Saints bedding in error prone youngsters and Leicester dazed by key departures and uncertainty of who else they might lose and need to replace this week. Things can only get better for both clubs. Nice work from Che Adams sealed the points in a match mostly dominated by the Foxes but a new found confidence of our defence kept them at bay. Bella-Kotchap & Djenepo get the plaudits but the Adams substitution made the difference. JWP seemed out of sorts but improved when we started moving forward in the last 20 minutes. Ralph should move him forward as an attacking MF and leave the defending to Romeu & Lavia. Stuart Armstrong still well off the pace. The other Armstrong put in the effort but that seems to be all he has to offer. ME was all over the place and should have been hooked at HT. It was baffling that Ralph gave him the full 90, not sure what is going on there. A win is a win and will do wonders for team morale but we need to get our passing game together before next weekend. At least they know each other now and the white shirts are also a clue!

It ought to be.

It is far too early to expect too much from Hasenhüttl's hopefuls, they need time to settle to the pace and physicality of the PL and to gel together sufficiently to develop the automatism that we have seen occasionally in the past. The period up to the WC break will be mainly one of learning their trade and developing consistency as individual players. After the break with luck we will see the beginnings of a new more exciting era for Saints on the pitch as work concentrates more on formations and partnerships. For now it will be business pretty much as usual with erratic team selections and substitutions interspersed with missed opportunities up front and calamitous lapses in concentration at the back. I cannot see us taking the world by storm just yet. Leicester also have their problems with players leaving or unsettled by speculation. On balance though they have better quality than us in too many positions and they have home advantage so I'm going for 2-1 or even 3-1 to the Foxes.

One thing is for certain, his demeanour has changed at his press conferences. Bit too much sarcasm in his replies now and much more evasive about player matters. Looks edgy and uncomfortable at times as though his every word is being scrutinised from above. Not the relaxed, confident, cheerful chappie of yester-year. Probably is the 12 game thing hanging over him.

Especially now that talk of his testimonial has started!

...but what is the point of them when they are as disingenuous as this one. Ralph makes it up as he goes along and the Semmens utterances are condescending bullish*t.

Total rubbish

Trains leave stations, boats leave ports 😉 (saved you some obvious vetting from the site's favourite fat controller) It is not uncommon for Ralph's train to be half empty when it leaves the Window station. One reason for that is he never reveals the destination.

You should have gone to Specsavers mate! Maya was an outstanding leader on the field and was Japan Captain. Yes he was in the team that lost 9-0 but he was also in our successful teams under previous managers and served us well for many years. JWP was in the 9-0 thrashings yet he is revered, would you say that he was a disgrace and that his presence is indicative of how we have gone downhill?

You refer to Ralph, Martin & Toby when you really mean Hasenhüttl, Semmens & Steele. Relations between the club and fans are at rock bottom so the notion of personalising relationships is farcical. They don't give a fishes tit about the views of fans as is pretty obvious when they have to endure being in the same room as us riff riff for one hour. I'll bet they were in their cars within 30 seconds of the final whistle. As for blabber mouth Blackmore, he just had to let us know that he had just secured another 3 year contract with the Beeb. He has no self awareness, never shuts up, hogs all the attention, asks his own questions rather than fans and generally irritates the F out of everybody. It's not about you Blackmore!!! A disastrous evening. The smug, self satisfied complacency on show here will take us down. We really need a total clean sweep of all this lot - excluding Marion of course

What is it they say, never ask a question to which you don't know the answer

Of course the rot starts at the top, Semmens is an arrogant fraud and should have been booted out along with Hasenhüttl long ago. They're all bloody 'yes' men up there with itchy backs.

Did Diallo steal your girlfriend or something?