We are so poor out wide. If we had any quality, we'd be winning this. Leonard struggling too.

Absoloute waste of space Dolan.

matter of time before we concede

put it in the fuckin box.

In terms of his overall keeping ability, he's about the same as Walton but better with his feet. He's not a keeper you have much faith in though. New keeper wouldn't have to be a worldy to be an upgrade.

yup. It was a licence to print money 🍷

This is a point I made last week about Pears - A lot of goals we concede aren't his fault (like the Szmodic pass last week) but there is zero confidence of him saving or putting off the striker. We just accept they score from those situations.

Not with that starting 11 we wouldn't.

No he shouldn't. We need to sign a left back and put Brittain at right back on his natural foot. Pickering has always been a weak link and teams are starting to expose JRC's defensive awareness. The irony of today is we were forced to take both Pickering and Dolan out of the starting 11 and looked no weaker with ten men.

His movement is decent and he has that ability to stick his arse out and hold the ball up. Another with no pace though, he looks like he's running through treacle.

Yup WDL. Lower mid table looks about right with the current squad.

Hard to take that. Should have scored a second in that ten min spell. Papered over the cracks though. Very poor overall.

lucky assist. He shot and it spun to Gally 😂

gally

I remember being down to 10 in a prem game. May have been against Boro. We had Bellamy - who still ran them ragged and scored the winner for us that day.

The ball won't stick with Leonard. Not his game. Sub at HT.

Count your blessings

At least we have plenty of pace up top so we can sit deep and play on the break🤦🏻‍♂️

Who else do you play? - it's slim pickings throughout the squad.

That was pathetic defending from Pickering. Completely misjudges the bouncing ball, then brings down the man. He was saved by Pears a couple of minutes earlier. This will end up 3 or 4. Hull were looking much the better side against 11.

Very lucky to be on level terms here. Hull look much more fluid.

Surely this is Dolan's last chance. Lack of anything resembling quality out wide - on the pitch or bench. Think we will struggle today.

Just watching the Plymouth game. They look very solid if unspectacular. May Struggle for goals but will he hard to beat. I just pray that Russell Martin lasts till at least Christmas. He's killing Southampton's chances. Plymouth had far more shots with much less possession. If Southampton sat back and played on the break, their attacking pace would rip up this league.

Yup. High hopes for the new lad.

Apologies - your post was under mine - thought it was in reply👍