What. A. Fucking. Goal.
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almost rightā¦ just ran at their entire team.
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my Redmond charity fantasy football running totalā¦ Ā£1
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Donāt know how good the goal is yet. Too busy going mental in Itchen North
It was, mehā¦
Boufal was unlucky not to start.
Told ya heās good 
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Great goal. So good, I think BT sport should think about editting the commentary.
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shame the commentator calls him Lemina 
Only three times.
Beat me to it because I watched it about 8 times before commenting
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Iām almost tempted to forgive Boufal for being shit after thatā¦
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Donāt forget MLT wrote the book about being shit after winning games for Saints and he ended up the most revered player to ever wear the red & white stripes.
Boufal deserves his day in the sunā¦even if it was wet and windy.
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That serves Pulis and his negative tactics right. Such a boring wanker with the way he sets his teams up against us. I swear it was 7 at the back at one stage, with Jay Rod at right back.
Cracking goal from Boufal. Just what we need right now - a true wild card. The defenders didnāt know which way he was gunna turn and in doing so he bought himself the half a yard that he needed to get his shot away. Itās amazing what can happen when you run in a straight line towards the goal! Redmond take note.
I was close to slagging the manager off on here for bringing on Redmond before Boufal and Austin but decided to wait until full time!
Hopefully he can produce more regularly and nail down a place in the side. He is the most dynamic player we have by far. Lemina is probably next and he is in a holding role. Probably says a lot about our frustrations of late. We need that unpredictable element these days otherwise we are too easy to frustrate.
VVD looked better today. As did Bertrand, who got forward more than last week. Lemina was decent again.
Tadic fell over too easily trying to win a penalty when heād have been better off staying on his feet with the keeper stranded.
Forsterā¦ crumbs. Luckily he was not required to make any diving saves today.
Important win that. Weād dropped too many points at home and after dominating the entire game, really needed to take maximum points for their confidence if nothing else.
Roll on Brighton.
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Iām guessing @themightyostrich is somewhere getting absolutely off his tits right now, celebrating not having to start the next match thread!
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The phrase āturning pointā is overused in football. We hear constant speculation about whether a team has overcome its latest batch of difficulties, in our case, the lack of goals. Weāve not reached a turning point on that even though Iāve never seen a better goal scored at St Maryās, and I suspect Iām not alone in thinking that.
Letās hope to fuck that Pell reaches the same conclusion many of us have. Fuck. Weāve got that in our team. Weād er, better just build the whole damn thing around him. And we should, because today was a turning point. Boufal stepped up to the plate and told the world āthis is what I can doā and suddenly, two hundred defensively minded players cried out in anguish, suddenly silenced.
Can Boufal do that every week? Who cares, as long as our opponents think he might be capable. Theyāll inevitably focus their attention on him, giving our other players more space to play. All important, imo - because there are other players waiting to step up to the plate, such as Lemina, thatāll benefit from attention being elsewhere.
Thereās a proper team waiting to be chiselled out of what we have. The weird thing is that we might best achieve the best team outcomes by focusing on one man, much as we did when Bally decided that MLT was the main man.
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Couldnāt agree more.
We definitely reached a point where what we were doing wasnāt working anymore. We became too predictable and easy to play against. Boufal will be shit as often as he is brilliant but I think we are in a place where we need to persist and give him a sustained run in the side. His confidence will be sky high after that goal so we must utilise that and give him almost a free role. He wonāt track back as well as Redmond but thatās a price we must pay.
I donāt feel this is a ājump on the bandwagonā moment, simply a realisation of the fact that other options have been running on empty for some time. Giving Redmond or to a lesser extent Tadic a prolonged rest/kick up the arse may also do them good in the long run.
I forgot to comment on our corners earlierā¦ for once I donāt recall the goalkeeper claiming any with complete ease. Sticking VVD in front of him seemed to do the job but does mean he cannot really attack them. In any event I was quite impressed with how dangerous they were at times, especially considering the 8 centre backs deployed by Pulis.
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Forster wasnāt impressive today and luckily, didnāt have much to do. When he did stuff, he made football look like a difficult enterprise. A sign of a player in form is making it look easy. I know Kenzie told us the pitch was slippery, so presumably the ball was too, but what was that butterfingers fucking calamity at the end?
Heās getting the fundamentals wrong. Coming for balls when weāve a crowd in the box already. Not coming for balls when thereās a man free because you think your team mate has it covered. In that instance, the defender did make up the distance, but Fraser didnāt know that, and could have nullified the situation earlier. Iām not as harsh as papbro. He thinks Fraser should have caught the effort he tipped over the bar. Iām not there yet, but I was saying to @goatboy that we had a goalkeeping problem the minute we hit the Prem with Kelv between the sticks.
Iāve hailed Frase as the boy that keeps your sheets clean, and he managed that today. Against a team that actually fancied having a go at him, he might have been more up for it. His recent record suggests your sheets will be covered in goal shaped shit.
One can only assume that a charity somewhere in the West Midlands is going to get an oversized cheque at some point. How else does one explain anyone being a West Brom fan at this point?
When Cortese unceremoniously sacked Nigel Adkins to make way for management wunderkind Mauricio Pochettino, I can remember @complete-bollocks-fry of TSW moaning about it, and saying that Adkins could have been āour Tony Pulisā.
Fuck that. Iāve no idea why WBA want theirs.
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