Wow - WOW. Where the heck did all that come from? So, JWP has a howler and just an overall , Salusi was awful today and responsible for 2 if not 3 of the goals and if not for FF and the woodwork, it would have been worse. While I am fan of RH, he needs to shoulder 75% of this fiasco. What the heck was removing OR for JV about? Elyounoussi should have come out and we change to a 5-4-1 system. I see that RH made comments after the game about changing/abandoning the high press for next week at Arsenal. So why did he do that at HT? Ok rant over. only 3 players should get credit/paycheck for this game - FF, KWP and CA.

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What a shambles that was, Fraser aside they can all hang their heads in shame. At least we can now put to bed the claims that the so called best fans all sit/stand in the singing section, hardly any of them left with 20 minutes to go! Move on a hope for better next week is all we can do.

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Completely outclassed. Very painful to watch.

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Appalling.

Game was over after 20 minutes. Salisu totally at sea. Formation totally wrong. Tino looking like a 19 year old repeatedly failing to track back. Adam A just is not anywhere near adapting to the Prem league. Everyone taking too many touches before shooting. Adams's finishing ability completely deserting him.

I can't see why Ralph is saying give up the high press for next week, the players were there a week early! They just stood back and watched the Chelsea players pass the ball about from about 5 yards.

Fair credit to Chelsea they wanted it more and hit first touch shots on target. Bozo fans of all ages should stay off the pitch tho.

Valery, Diallo, Smallbone and Forster were the only bright spots. Smallbone and Valery played far better at rightback than Tino.

Take the point on the fans. When the game goes against you the noise is supposed to go up. Not stop.

Once again Ralph has produced a binge season. He deserves some slack for the underinvestment in our squad but looking at it in the round I don't really see any progress this year.

And to cap it all, Kevin Friend produced his usual fine performance.

COYR

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Oh one point I forgot to say - In the USA Effan Okoku (spelling?) is the WORST TV pundit there is. He should never do a live Saints broadcast again. Wow - he was pathetic and so negative about everything.

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Oh one point I forgot to say - In the USA Effan Okoku (spelling?) is the WORST TV pundit there is. He should never do a live Saints broadcast again. Wow - he was pathetic and so negative about everything.

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Forster played well and that's about it, formation and tactics were way off, most of us fans noticed before Ralph and the game had finished before it was changed. Very, very poor all round!

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That was a totally gutless performance, I can take being beaten by the better team no problem, but I can’t take our team not putting the effort in after the first twenty mins, these are supposed to be professional footballers, well I didn’t see much of that yesterday, it’s was headless chicken time no leadership on the pitch, and the tactics were all wrong, it was obvious to me Chelsea would come out fired up after the week they had,why Ralph believes we can match the best teams talking the game to them from the start, we may get away with on occasions like spurs and West Ham away, but when we play a more compact formation we can stay in the game longer and invariably get a draw from it, or a narrow win against the top sides .Yesterday we were totally overrun in midfield, and exposed down the wings, leaving large gaps in the middle of the park. It’s was obvious from early on that changes had to be made, but Ralph failed to do so, Ely, should have come off for Diallo ,and valery or Perrault on for the unfortunate Adam Armstrong at 3.0 down, pushing s Armstrong into a more forward role, at least we could have made a game of it, without the total surrender it become. Sorry Ralph you were very poor tactical yesterday and not for the first time . Players have be dropped for-this dreadful display .lets have players in who want to play for the badge.

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I'm amazed Salisu got more than 2.

I'm also surprised that SA scored as highly as he did. His body language was poor and he was lost most of the time.

Big up Forster because otherwise it was double figures.

Likewise Smallbone when he came on.

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