oh and I turned to the person next to me and said McCarthy just pulled his hamstring on about 60 minutes,
So if I saw it why didn't Ralph or one of his assistants, or one of the players pass it on.
McCarthy himself should have gone down, at least that would have given the management team an input!!

10

Very predictable. Great first half. Game under control but poor scrappy second half (yet again!). Awful pass from Ward Prowse leading to the free kick. Then as rightly said if McCarthy was injured start on the line and come out and don't run back at the last minute. Game management was very poor at the end (yet again). McCarthy should have flagged up how injured he was much earlier to allow Lewis to have come on before the three subs were used.

8

How many times has Romeau given up a free kick near the end of a game near the penalty area a lot l believe. This giving games away and costing us 3 pts is embarrassing, somebody needs to put there hand up and take responsibility that would be all eleven lm afraid. We could off been comfortably in the top half this season,so damn frustrating watching this happen so often.

0

Don't know what to say, but I'll try, after seeing my team loose 2 points in a stupid way in minut 98. - against 10 men.

Good first half. Excellent Broja goal.

With no further substitution possibilities (Claude Puels favourite plural noun, I know) Brighton had to play the 10 minutes of added time with 10 men. With about 3 minutes left to play JWP throws the ball away which leads to Romeu fouling a BHA player just outside the penalty box receiving a (one match suspension) yellow card. McC sets up a good wall, but out of nowhere JWP runs back almost to our goal line to protect the left post area, milliseconds before the freekick is taken, ultimately meaning that the rebound ball into our box - after an effective wall block - finds a totally onside Maupay (due to JWPs position) in the box, and Maupay - the little irritating French man - blasts it in from close range at the right post.

2 big mistakes from JWP it seems, but after the game we learn that JWP was allegedly called back by McC because McC had a huge hamstring problem (which he allegedly kept quiet about) making him less mobile and extra fearful of conceding from the free kick, and, post-match, Ralph angrily blames McC for the goal.

I'm not sure whether blaming McC totally is fair, because I'm sure there were more than me who wondered why Lyanco took a goal kick for McC a few minutes before the equalizer. Could it be for other reasons than an injury? No.
Didn't Ralph and his staff see that?
Didn't Ralph get to suspect that McC had a problem? , and if Ralph did, why didn't he get someone to ask McC what the problem was or - even better - tell an outfield player to order McC to immediately raise his arm and go to ground, asking for treatment, so Ralph could get a chance to analyze and decide whether to bring Harry Lewis on?

Can't believe we didn't win.

McC had a pretty good game apart from being strangely involved in the equalizer btw.

4

Broja's goal was superb. Real classy.

However, twice he had options to put someone else in with an easy shot at target. Once it was Tella. Then when the cross was behind him and he scuffed his shot James WP was right behind him, whole goal infront and 10 yards out.

Broja needs to be more clever sometimes. Looks like if we start him he may get us 10+ goals a season, though.

3

I didn't realise that Ralph holds another unwanted top flight record 71 PTS dropped from winning positions

Are saints in such a dire position that this acceptable? Is Ralph going to change his constant tinkering falling out and isolating players? If it's true that he was aware that McCarthy was injured in the second half surly he had to act and bring on a replacement keeper. That's not tactical naivety that's plain stupid. It's the managers job to instill confidence into a team and Ralph has done the complete as saints are unable to keep their nerve in games

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I didn't realise that Ralph holds another unwanted top flight record 71 PTS dropped from winning positions

Are saints in such a dire position that this acceptable? Is Ralph going to change his constant tinkering falling out and isolating players? If it's true that he was aware that McCarthy was injured in the second half surly he had to act and bring on a replacement keeper. That's not tactical naivety that's plain stupid. It's the managers job to instill confidence into a team and Ralph has done the complete as saints are unable to keep their nerve in games

0

How many times has Romeau given up a free kick near the end of a game near the penalty area a lot l believe. This giving games away and costing us 3 pts is embarrassing, somebody needs to put there hand up and take responsibility that would be all eleven lm afraid. We could off been comfortably in the top half this season,so damn frustrating watching this happen so often.

1

Why is Lewis on the bench if we’re not going to use him?! Massive knock to his confidence keeping an unfit McCarthy on the pitch. Really stupid

3

What’s the issue with Stewie Armstrong, he certainly isn’t injured

1