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Only just watched the extended highlights. 3 main takeaways for me were: 1. Manning is shit 2. How the fk have we not scored some of those chances 3. Jo Tessem saying when Stewart scores "Finally, someone gets in front of or behind a defender!"

Sometimes when that feeling sets in is just when Saints are most likely to cruelly offer you something that keeps leading you on..... 5-0 incoming

ahh right right, that makes sense. I am not across fotmob, I was just trying to see what minute he got subbed and saw that graphic so chucked it in. Thanks for clarifying!

For anyone interested (not many), he started for Hamburg, played 78 minutes, the team lost and he was the lowest ranked player on fotmob. I want him to do well so they want to keep him permanently. I was just curious so I thought I'd share, and look forward to now forgetting about him for the rest of the season.

THB also seems to be our main goal threat the last few weeks

I don't speak German, can anyone translate 'massifwankë'?

there is a fairly large body of evidence that says putting stephens, manning and downes on the pitch together is a bad idea

Manning would pass back to the CBs from the penalty spot (if he ever found his way up that far)

where oh where did our rapid end to end passing go. was it all a dream?

Presumably we're paying them $7m?

Downes is huge part of the problem for me - I think Charles coming back in his place will make a very big difference to this team.

Pretty familiar pattern for me - can't break down teams, resort to pumping it into the box to no one or shooting hopefully from range. The biggest frustration for me is how much of our attacking play goes through our centre backs - THB admirably presents for the ball and tries to carry forwards but really that should be Flynn Downes' job, he is such a handdbrake on everything. No quality on the ball whatsoever. I really want my CMs to be having 50% of the touches that our CBs are having on days like today. I honestly think he should rebrand as a CB - he spends most of the game there anyway. Honorable mentions to Manning who is garbage and Archer who I don't remember touching the ball. Prob would have taken a point but it is a very frustrating feeling.

surely we can coordinate the barbershop harmonies in Help Me Rhonda?

He’s just the Aldi version of Finn Azaz

If Tonda improves us exponentially, using the goals per game stat as a benchmark for improvement, we'll be on track to score 35,960 goals by the end of the season.

Guys it’s official 👨🏻‍🍳

What year is it?

I find this interesting too, seems hard to reconcile with the David Brent-esque hungry eyes thing. But I also thought "hungry eyes" to the tune of "hungry heart" could be a funny song.

The down(e)s brothers coming on…….. surely he can show a bit here.

His career in an image really.

For all this excellent performance, manning is still shit

This looks like FIFA on easy mode. Happy for Jander, good player.

Errrrr just me or are we playing pretty well? Seem to be working it out of defence faster and more meaningfully.

Which effectively puts us back at the start of the season with Still. An incredible self sustaining cycle we’ve developed.

You’re just repeating what others have said 🦜