Saint_lambden

This is the great 'playing for their future' performance is it? 🥱

Redmond ahead of Adams again.

Chris Kavanagh the ref. Mike Dean on the other semi so we dodged a bullet there at least.

75 minutes to make a sub when it should have been 3 at half-time. Utter dross that is destined for the drop next season.

Yeah, can't wait to tell the grandkids in 50 years about those glory years when we were stumbling to 16th in the Premier League....🙄

It's 100% confidence related. He said as much after the game. Don't have the exact quote but it was along the lines of that he's not had that confidence much this season and he's trying to put his finger on why that is. The majority of his decent performances in a Saints shirt have come playing as the second striker rather than out wide because he can pick up the ball in those pockets of space in between the lines - like he did on Saturday. You'd assume though that Ings will come straight back in against Burnley and he'll drop back out wide because he's not going to drop Adams at the moment.

Well if we win the two games before the Semi, which there are no excuses not to (Burnley @ Home and WBA away), then we're safe. Can then give the semi 100%.

I'd sign Conor Gallagher (on loan at WBA from Chelsea). Can play in front of the back four and in number 10 role if needed too. Decent at breaking up the play, is a really good presser of the ball, likes a pop from range and has a nice delivery on him which would give us an alternative to JWP in that area. Sounds like Chelsea want about £9m for him which for a 21 year-old with his versatility would be a great long-term deal and give us real competition in the middle of the park. If Ralph really does want 2 players in every position, that would mean JWP/Gallagher in one CM slot and Diallo/Romeu in the other as I don't think Smallbone is ever really going to make the cut at this level, especially as he's now got to come back from a very serious injury.

But I guarantee if you asked all Wigan fans to take away that moment - Ben Watson scoring a last minute winner in an FA Cup final right in front of their fans - to swap it to still be in the Premier League now just fighting to stay in it every year, at least 95% of them would say no.

I suspect it's because we'll have to beat two of (likely) City/United/Chelsea to do it which considering we've conceded 5 and 9 to 2/3 of those in the last 6 weeks, isn't going to happen is it?

Not a single shot in the last 30 minutes. Absolutely pathetic. No urgency, far too many of them drifting and got what we deserved. Haven't got a hope of beating Burnley playing like that with the form they're in.

Let's face it - we probably would have conceded 5 with the same team if we'd have parked the bus too. We didn't learn anything we didn't already know. Performance level was actually good but individual errors cost again. Only decision I really disagreed with was putting McCarthy back in. On the plus side - the confidence won't have been ruined; another goal for Adams; JWP and Tella impressing again. Win against Brighton and it's 6 from 9 for the week which we all would have taken at the start.

Ralph was right to call him ketchup bottle.

If we just played Tella up front on his own the ball's going to keep coming back at us again as he's not going to hold it up against a combination of Stones/Dias/Laporte.

----------------------Forster-------------- --KWP-------Bednarek----Vest------RB-- --Minamino-----Diallo-----JWP---Djenepo-- ----------------Adams----Tella------------ Protect Armstrong for Sunday. Hit them early, hopefully knick something and just try and keep it respectable so that we don't lose too much confidence heading into the next two. 4-0 though, sadly.

They've got 6 defenders out including Jagielka with talk they may even change to a 4 man defence as they haven't got 3 CBs to play their normal system.

2 wins in 19 now for unstoppable Fulham!

He's played over 150 games for us and at 26 should at the peak of his career but is instead getting worse. Probably had about 20 good games since he's joined. I know he's a confidence player but his complete inability to take anyone on when he's in this sort of form really limits us. No doubt he'll be along at the end of the season to do an interview saying how tough it's been like he did before. Truth is, his current form is the normal and any purple patch was a blip.

Believe it or not, they've actually got as many injuries as us. No excuses if we don't win, even if KWP and Diallo aren't back. Assuming they are: -------------------------Forster---------------------- --KWP--------Bednarek---------Vest------Bertrand-- --Armstrong----Diallo----------JWP-------Tella----- -----------------Ings----------Adams--------------

Forster KWP-Salisu-JV-Bertrand Redmond-JWP-Romeu-Djenepo Ings-Adams Severely lacking in midfield options so guess it'll have to be that (but Minamino/Armstrong wide when back available). Djenepo likes to get stuck in so task him with being first line of defence in dealing with Traore. Need a goal from at least one of the front two to end their baron runs. Wolves been blunt in attack for a while now but can't see us keeping a clean sheet. 1-1 and we go through on pens AET.

Mason was born in Portsmouth.

Not sure if this is even the right thread and it's from TalkSh_te so to be taken with a pinch of salt, but Matterface the skate indicating that there are three potential buyers interested now that the DaGrosa exclusivity period is over. "One has been trying to get in for months but up until now was prohibited."

Lee Mason, born in Portsmouth, refereeing the game. Shouldn't be anywhere near the Premier League let alone our matches given his constant mistakes.