Toussaint

Player Of The Season: Downes Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana, Mara - tied Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles, not terrible, but we had our pants pulled down, yet again ! Best Match: can we have half matches? Ipswich away Worst Match: several for different reasons. Season Rating: 6 with potential to rise to 10 Russ Rating: 6 , his decisions / lack off and stubbornnesses have cost us dearly. Still has time to redeem himself and become a very good manager SR - 3 , need Rasmus out the picture Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: this . Wembley win, next autos or Wembley win if we don’t do it this season

He didn’t have long, but he looks like a big, awkward handful of a striker, quite quick and good on the ball. A bit like Bamford from what I have seen over the few cameos he’s had.

Because he didn’t, he had a fresh start with a new team behind him giving him 100% backing in his philosophy and a bunch of premier league players and loanees at his disposal. Having said that, we are we are are and I feel much more positive after Russ and the team’s performance yesterday.

That team would get mullered I fear. I would stick with McCarthy, he’s the one we are going forward with and needs the game time.

I think stage fright also came into play in a big way that day, the Millennium Stadium is an intimidating place, first game ever under a closed roof, Arsenal's familiarity with big occasions, Fabrice Fernandes's refusing to take the field when called upon and so on. My main point is I don't want to see a team like last Saturday's fielded, that is to say no attacking threat and no midfield strength. Use some of the fringe / up and coming players if we need to who maybe some value in the playoffs.

I'd probably go the weakened side to, but with the proviso that we give some of the younger guys a go, we having nothing to learn or gain by watching powder puff Mara &co. poncing around for an hour or more. I would probably give Rothwell a run out as well, from what I understand his favoured position is the one Stu held, and we don't have a natural replacement for Stu.

He has. I was indirectly responding to the point that he should get a new contract if we go up. I don’t think he should, this is his level imo.

We do all see things differently, but if in doubt ask me, because I am always 100% correct.

If we go up he will perform to exactly the same level as he did previously in the prem. His contribution has been immense this season, but he will just not get the time he needs to set himself in the prem that he does in the championship.

We were putting loads of crosses in earlier in the season, but no one could make anything of them.

I was never as convinced he was as bad as many were claiming. In the very rare occasions he received decent service, in a terrible team with two terrible managers, he looked ok. And, as point out this is the championship. I actually think Russ would have liked to get crosses in, hence signing Ross Stewart. We have no forwards now who can attack a decent cross, Che is short, Armstrong is even shorter and Mara is a powder puff.

In our current plight, that is relegation followed by where we find ourselves now, all roads lead to Rasmus. As long as he is pulling the strings nothing will improve. I still think we could have survived last season if the right manager was appointed to succeed Ralph and the money was spent more wisely in January.

It has, Bournemouth and Portsmouth.

Way better option than Mara

Maybe sympathy for the fake limp he put on?