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If Stephens had made half the errors that Bednarek has made since Christmas, he’d be hanging from the SaintsWeb banner. The guy gets such a free ride, good at times but is as prone to mistakes as any of our players if not more so.

The alternative to tonight is parking the bus for 90 minutes and losing 3-0 instead of 5-2, like most others do. If we had Romeu fit so we could’ve played him or Diallo, and KWP wasn’t coming off the back of another injury so couldn’t be risked, things would maybe have been competitive. Hey ho, 5 winnable games ahead.

I know it’s a sin to say on here, but is Bednarek good? He is soft as shite and seems to have a meltdown in games like these.

That sounds like 9-0 to me

Personally, I enjoyed the season under Puel. When I sit and watch old Saints highlights, the 1-0 away to Liverpool in the semi final and the final of the league cup itself are always high on my list. Arsenal away in the same cup was also one of my favourite nights as a Saints fan. Appreciate i’m in the minority, but he gave me some great memories, so I can’t complain about that.

He’s got some strong competition, but I do think he might just be the worst of all our bad signings. He brought absolutely no joy that I can remember. Gaston, Osvaldo, Lemina, even arguably Carrillo (assist away to WBA) brought at least one good/great moment. Hoedt brought absolutely nothing that I can remember, apart from disrespect to the club and the fans.

The Ings we are seeing this season, is the Ings we saw the first season. He clearly takes time to get up to speed with some niggling injuries along the way. That Villa injury was a real blow, and he’s struggled to get up to speed since. I’ve no doubt that if he was with us next season he’d find his rhythm and form again. Unfortunately he almost certainly won’t be with us next season.

It’s not though, he’s had a number of good games, I know a few Fulham fans and they really rate him. Rightly so too. But history would suggest that within a year or so they’ll be fed up with him.

Yeah the current situation is the worst possible one for us really. At the moment we’ve got an injury prone striker who’s out of contract in 16 months. Last season we had a 20 goal striker. It’s hurt our performance, his performance, and ultimately his value. Selling him cheap means we won’t replace suitably. We needed him to hit the heights of last season to get maximum value.

I honestly could not give a flying one as to how we are playing, at this stage we just need to win. We’ve played well in the first half of plenty of games lately and got humped all over the gaff, so who cares about the performance at this stage.

I remember last season when he came off the bench at Pompey that we were all excited to have him back from injury, as he’d been so good the season before. Let’s not pretend he hasn’t had good periods for us. At the moment however, he’s going through a really bad one (not his first). I felt sorry for him on Monday, it reminded me of Hojbjerg at home to Inter - just playing so bad he should be removed for his own benefit. But if the manager keeps playing him, that’s not his fault.

Personally not convinced on the change of keeper - always gets suggested when we lose a game, not convinced Macca has done much wrong, or that Forster has had to do much right in the games he’s kept clean sheets in.

Leeds at home if it’s not the Brighton one mentioned above. Hall of fame.

Surely it’s got to be JWP and Jankewitz - this kid has been touted as ‘next in line’ for a while. He fucked up his first opportunity so bad that it was almost impressive, so it can only get better from here. I really hope he gets the chance, sometimes these things work out really well.

On Tuesday night we started with 10 senior players (Tella the 11th player) and had 5 on the bench. We had 5 senior players (counting Smallbone and Obafemi as they’ve been in the senior squad for a while now) out injured. How many senior players would a team like us, who don’t play in Europe, be expected to have sitting around outside of the squad incase of an injury crisis? I think our ‘lack of depth’ is overblown. We’ve brought in 5 players since the summer window, and only lost Hojbjerg of note. We are in a freak injury crisis, the likes of which we’ve never seen before and probably won’t ever see again. a back up full back who can play both sides is the only area I would say has been neglected, elsewhere we’re suitably stocked.

I didn’t say he was today. But the original post said ‘keeps up these performances’ which suggests he has been poor in games beyond today, which just isn’t true. The midfield was very condensed today because weren’t as expansive as normal, and it showed, we gave the ball away a lot.

Djenepo was brilliant, i think he gets a tough time on here when so often he seems to be Ralph’s go-to utility man. Often puts a real shift in for the team when i’m sure he’d much rather be attacking further up the pitch. Really pleased for him today. Salisu also very good, dare I say it, we’ve made two good signings in the summer? 😮

What’re you talking about? He’s been one of our only decent performers recently

Ah well that explains it then.

Ah okay. Makes sense because it seemed weird Ralph didn’t include him in that game, which would’ve suggested maybe he’d lost faith in him which would’ve been a shame.

Shouldn’t Jankewitz still be suspended? Didn’t think the ban applied in the FA Cup? If so it’s only the third game since he got the red card...

I was watching the highlights of the second leg league cup final at Anfield the other day. Redmond was absolutely brilliant over both legs, tore them apart. It’s clearly in there, but he often seems scared and lacking confidence. Really hope he can find it again.

Are we scared of the rain? We are absolutely terrible when it’s raining

Ings has been really poor, slowing everything and misplacing everything

two own goals for Bednarek in successive games, both Stephens fault probably