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Well it was very very poor. Can’t remember being dominated by anyone since Bournemouth at home last season. A game we miraculously didn’t lose!

I can’t believe the spaces we have between defence and midfield you can’t see a 4-4-1-1 or a 4-5-1 in defence, there’s gaps everywhere and no plan. It must start with Vesty sitting too deep due to lack of pace?

Never want to see him in a Leicester shirt again, but last night he’d have got hold of the ball second half and found a blue shirt with his passes.

After last night’s woeful midfield display, if he gets around the pitch he’ll be an improvement! Apparently he wins a few tackles as well, again something we don’t do.

Nelson is a Rolls Royce of a player, and the next big money departure imo ( hopefully not too soon) . The difference between the two was shown at Derby with an incident second half, Derby player running at him at pace, Nelson back pedalling but then, before the box stepped up to win the ball. Faes would have carried on back pedalling and maybe fallen over! He should’ve been playing all last season too, the cameo’s under Enzo showed that.

Not many transactions between clubs to recall, though I’m old enough to remember Chris Garland in the 70’s. He hit the ground running here and scored a few.

But we’ve never played the Enzo system (boring though it was) since he left. All three managers have had a ten but not two eights. I can’t understand why Cooper didn’t just run with it at the start. The worrying thing is that all three think that they are playing that way!

Can’t remember the single good performance. I think we’ve been poor all season and could conceivably have lost every game.

Never heard soton fans like that before, since they’ve been in that ground anyway. They must feel something is building. Unlike us.

We are not beating these, saw the Sheffield derby and they’re miles in front of us now We should have had Wilder when he was available in my opinion in this league a proper Leicester type manager in the Pearson , O’Neill mould. Marti out.

I’m astounded that since Enzo, where we played 2 high 8’s not a ten, we’ve never done it! When Cooper came in I can’t believe he didn’t at least start the season playing the way we were promoted. And RVN followed suit as well. We know it wouldn’t have been enough then but it is a system that gives our wingers a closer option. Now it’s take the full back on or pass back 20 yards! Fatawu and Mavadidi ( our only threat ) looked the better for it.

Regularly a disconnected rabble.

Or forwards, or wingers, or defenders, or midfielders!

If only! It will come back, but only when Pep tells them to. Then he’ll be the messiah all over again.

And we need to create a few chances to see if he’s any good, for seasons now with this football we don’t get up the pitch!

Good strikers score one in three chances, yesterday was one in two, he needs a partner, nobody was close to him all game, we don’t create chances. How many has he missed this season? Vardy lived off scraps for years playing up on his own and Patson is no Vardy. We don’t get up the pitch!

Good win, poor display. I’m getting sick and tired of seeing no action City wise at the Kop end though, it’s been all season! We tip tap round our box against teams that appear quicker than us to close down so we don’t get out. If we do go one up on the break we seem to sit in marking space not men, it’s awful. Both goals, though good well taken ones were from Stoke giving the ball away in a dangerous area, not our good play. A wins a win but we’re miles off it and are going nowhere, and I came away disappointed not elated.

I’m 66 and can come off my marker quicker and show for it better than Carranza so far.

We should have beaten them and they looked average against us. Confidence moving both ways now means we’d be beaten now though.

He needs to go up front, we have worse up there currently.

Sorry, I thought they were a lot lot better., they played us to death.

And our best spell first half was against their reserves!

I agree but surely Marti was bargain bucket? He came with no pedigree other than he was Spanish and liked to watch Barcelona under Cruyff!!!

The only thing in his favour is he had a couple more touches than Soumare and a couple more tackles, that’s how bad it is!

Martin Henderson was better than him. Could jump and head it, come off his man and hold it…… but that’s about it!