Yep agreed. Best I can say about Noble is he’s very experienced & will use every trick in book to gain advantage today. As you say, very risky. Smallbone did really well last week but vs Noble, difficult. And 2x RB’s on bench!? That’s just plain weird. Hope we’re not getting back the rather confusing Ralph from start of season.
That's no excuse he should be in the team. We're starting without Redmond, Djenepo and Ings and no recognised right back. But it's only West Ham. We're taking the piss, we're taking the piiiiiiiiiss We are Southampton, we're taking the piss
Ralph has been reading this thread and knows that no matter what he does, we’ll win. Positivity trumps formations.
Risky putting Smallbone in against a physical team like this, but excited to see how he copes, but also disappointed that JWP isn’t in the midfield.
No point in trying to physically match West Ham. JWP has been great at right-back. better to be solid and hope to hit them on the break. Fingers crossed.
I will be absolutely bloody amazed!!!!!! we’re not physically strong and I think they will be fired up from playing well but narrowly loosing against Liverpool. I predict 3-0 to them
Very attacking line-up from Moyes, Haller and Antonio linked up well when they played upfront together. I'd be optimistic except I'm a West Ham fan and optimism is death.
