Sh*te. Need anyone who can shoot straight, or create a goal, before Thursday night. Expect the same every match if Ralph insists on playing Elyounoussi and Adams . Ward Prowse is pointless.

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First full game I have seen this season. So we lost, but hardly deserved to. Performance gave me hope for this season, after the dreadful end to 2021/22 and the first game at Spurs. All the new signings looked good, much better defensively than hitherto. Bella- Kotchap is a find and Mara and Aribo look like potential difference makers. I thought A Armstrong was much more effective playing wide. Negatives were lack of midfield creativity and missing cutting edge in front of goal. Che worked hard but is at his best alongside an Ings style player. We March on …

13

Saints were unlucky. Che will be kicking himself for being so profligate with the great chances he had at the beginning of the game.
We were so unlucky not to equalise with the phenomenal overhead kick (whoever that was).
Bella-Kotchap is a beast of player. Hope we can keep him past this season

7

Good performance a bit lacking around the box and need to have a dig sometime rather than look for the perfect move. Surprised Adam Armstrong was hooked as we were very strong down the left to that point but not at all afterwards. I thought penalty a the time and until I've seen replays still do, VAR is not a friend to the smaller teams, which annoys the cr*p out of me. We still need to move the ball quicker through midfield but sometimes our movement isn't quite good enough to enable this and we have to go backwards. It would however (in my opinion) benefit us to be a bit less risk adverse at times and slide balls between defenders for players to move onto. I appreciate we risk losing the ball but it's risk vs gain?

8

Not sure how Aribo scores so highly, wasn't his best game?

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Should have added that we ought to have had that penalty for the McTominay handball. …

4

Well that was a tough one to lose and took a world class strike off a volley pass to beat us. Not the end of the world and there were some goods signs. Seems RH has realized our 4-4-2 or a variation is our best. Djenepo had another good game as well as AA.

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Was definitely at a different game to I_Would because I thought Saints were superb - all deserving of at least 8 out of 10, except Mo El who was probably a 7.5 out of 10.

The reality is the so called big 6 teams should be smashing us but today showed that there is still hope for teams like us yet as long as we put in the hard work & commit.

IMO Manure we’re lucky to get anything today, let alone win - we were by far the better team.

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I would you know anything at all about football ?

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I would you know anything at all about football ?

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