Baird of the land

a very odd game. City wasteful whereas saints were clinical. Win very welcome but lack of control for large parts is concerning.

Isn’t the idea to condense international breaks so there is only one.

Has there been an update on when jander will be back?

You must be confusing him with downes.

Curious to see if tonda persists with him in the more advanced role until jander’s return.

At this point in his career he’s pretty limited and not a good replacement for a mobile midfielder like Charles. As for tonight he was competent, not great, not terrible. difference in the midfield today vs Saturday was downes, who was excellent defensively and getting forward. I don’t think it should be odd to push back on suggestions that he should be in our best xi.

I’m happy with the win but trying to claim that jwp has been virtually flawless is having a laugh.

Jwp is not.

Where was that goal you promised?

Key players turned up azaz, scienza, larin. Interesting to see downes playing further forward. Not sure it’s his ideal position but certainly on today’s evidence more effective at it than the crablike jwp.

I really hope we don't plan on starting those 3 in midfield.

Jwp was just going for safe passes, which is why there was so much green. Having one safe crab is ok but the problem was that we also had downes doing exactly the same thing. Midfield was horribly limited, further up the pitch players are getting the ball in poorer positions, when the they are trying to make things happen.

Hopefully after their strong start they’ll come onto us like Millwall, which will help us break them down despite our horribly limited midfield.

Yeah if you said blond, neat.and tidy cm I’d have no clue whether you meant downes or jwp, which is a problem imo, especially when there’s a brown haired variant on the bench.

See Shea is starting for Fulham.