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With Edouard and Bilal there’s absolutely no excuse for him to be going as defensive as he has done these first 3 games. Make or break post international window for me.

When there is such a disparity between financially powerful clubs and the rest, I can totally see why teams refuse to go toe-to-toe. It might make for a boring game but if the underdog nicks it 1-0 playing that way as opposed to getting thrashed 5-0 going for it, why wouldn’t they*. *appreciate Southampton aren’t financially inferior to us btw.

Apologies, that didn’t come across.

Bertrand was a drain on our resources though - he didn’t feature and was getting paid. This should be a different situation as BDR has played more than 30 games a season for the last 3 premier league seasons. The point I was making was that we’ve filled a squad position without shelling out money (we don’t have). If his wages are comparable or lower than Praet’s / Albrighton’s then this should be net positive. He’s probably not going to set the world alight but we’re going to need solid performers with experience to get us through the season.

What does it matter? We got him on a free to provide cover for two wingers who have no premier league experience. If he’s any good we’ll extend for a year or release him and have lost nothing but wages.

I don’t, but this is an example of a game where we’ve been good (helped by a poor opposition who have actually come to play rather than just sitting in). The problem is when we’re bad we’re very bad.

We’re fu88ed. Years of languishing in the championship ahead (if we’re lucky)

Nice Warnock / Muscat reference there

Seen them given. We should never have been in a position where there was a choice for the ref to make. Our game management is crap and the final 3 mins summed that up. Lucky.

Anyone got a stream…keep getting ones with Blackburn v Birmingham 😡

Kamara looks like a decent player on this showing

Fair, I probably wouldn’t use my surname either if my brother was the best footballer in the world.

Bellingham I would guess but don’t know who else.

We shouldn’t underestimate the impact of playing against far inferior opposition. He’s literally playing a league below so he should stand out. I’m all for the praise but it needs to be recognised that he is a defender who isn’t really being asked to defend and I would expect that the same deficiencies we saw last season will be apparent next season too.

Agree but they could hardly string a run of 4 appearances together previously. Maybe the intensity of training is different, maybe the fact that we’re generally on top and dominating the ball is also a factor. Either way, long may it last!

Hopefully not jinxing it, but I continue to be amazed that we’ve seen Justin and Ricardo play such a prolonged run of fixtures. I thought those days were behind us - what has changed?