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Great point. It was excellent play by Adams and those little things add up in the end. His hold up play is excellent.

Personally I think we need to enhance central midfield with more ability. Trying to think of loans, as that is realistically all we will get, and saw that Joe Allen is linked to a few Prem clubs. Could we loan Allen, perhaps with a view to a permanent move? Should we?

We are mentioned in passing in Emmanuel Dennis (Nigerian striker) transfer rumour http://www.footmercato.net/flash-mercato/info-fm-manchester-united-s-interesse-a-emmanuel-dennis_269898

It is. But 2 of those 3 are in our first 11. Some think Yoshida is the best CB we have at the club despite him not getting games. Are they the players we need to lose the most? Who is buying Forster and paying his £70k+ a week contract? Not Celtic. Not unless we pay half that contract up. Gulp.

what makes you think that? It will surely be the same as last summer. A **** load of players with years on their contracts that no one wants unless we pay 50% or more of their wages going no where. They will nearly all stay all summer long consuming wages/funds leaving us little time and money to get the players we need. We will shift some out on loan, but that wont provide us with the finds needed to buy some top class players. Without the funds it will be down to brilliant scouting. Do we have anyone at the club that knows his arse from his elbow these days?

amen to that.

...and no one will buy our deadwood in the summer. They will be here all summer long on full wages before going out on loan, again, once we have agreed to pay at least 50% of their wages, leaving our hands tied, again. Yoshida, Long and Cedric are the only ones out of contract and two out of three are in the first 11 right now. If they all leave, that means we need two out of three signings to go straight into the first team and hit the ground running, just to stand still. What a mess.

The only way out of this mess is by having two (or possibly three) amazing transfer windows in a row, in which perhaps two out of three signings in each window goes straight into the first 11 and shines straight away. At the moment we are lucky to see one out of three signings get into the first 11 and that guy doesn't really improve us. After too many below par windows, we need to excel in the next one - how we do that with no funds available is beyond me.

Hasn't Ralph played Obefemi, Valery, Danso, Gunn, Slattery and Ramsey?

no doubt we have not done things well/right in recent years, but what might something else look like?

were we actually any good though? We struggled massively towards the end of the season. I recall we beat a terrible Arsenal, Huddersfield, Fulham and Brighton. You have to beat whats in front of you, but do we simply beat the teams going through a period of struggle. I guess the Spurs and Wolves home wins were good performances. This season we have beaten Brighton and Sheff United, but both were finding their feet and then Watford and Norwich, both terrible. It strikes me that we are just a rank poor side, only really beating sides that are worse than us, with the odd decent result here and there. We are better with Ralph than Hughes, but there is only so much a manager can do. A different/better manager might get a little more out of the players, but its been three years of struggle and that's simply because we don't have enough top quality. We have some half decent players, and quite a few that would not look out f place if in a better side, but not many (if any at all) that can lift an average team to a higher level.

that missed header by Stephens in added time...jesus. A CB cant do that, ever. He got away with it, this time, but on another day...

Djenepo has had a good second half and tried to make things happen

good play from us again. I guess west ham are sitting back, but we are pressing them hard and at least pushing for a goal

why not take Hoj off?

has always been his problem. Simply does not have the quality needed to play in that tight area in the middle in the top flight. Gets worse the more tired he gets, and by giving it away the team collectively gets more tired chasing lost causes to try and get it back.

better fight from us.

we are weak as **** through the middle. Antonio showing up our CBs for what they are - slow and weak.

My eyes bleed watching this team.

"exactly".

I see our friend Donna loves a kebab is in the snews and Private Eye in a story about her role in Victory energy and how she may have got that nice consulting role at PFC.

the three home cup ties in 2011/12

Just the name Adrian Heath makes me feel slightly sick to the stomach. I guess I was of that age when it hurts like hell to lose any game never mind the biggest of my life at that time. The Andy Richie goal was equally hard to take. More recently the Norris goal was gutting. We were going up, playing sensational stuff and it was just such a wasted opportunity to get one over on those ****s. Not nearly as painful as Heaths goal though.

I was at Ashton Gate on Saturday and Matty Cash looked good. He's a right winger who has filled in at right back in the last month or so and been outstanding there for Forest. Not exactly the biggest fella in the world, but decent touch and enough pace to survive. Decent going forward as you'd expect. Won't be cheap and doubt Forest will allow him to leave before the summer as they are in the hunt for a playoff place.

not really. We stuck 10 men behind the ball and did **** all other than defend. We showed absolutely nothing with the ball. As Strachan used to say, you have to be brave on the ball and we weren't. The only thing that made the performance respectable was that it was against a top side. Against almost everyone else it would have been two woeful displays. Todays game wasn't that. Yes Arsenal are no where near the level of City, but they are still half decent (all be it struggling a bit) and we wiped the floor with them. Their fans booed them off the park, that how much we showed the up. I am not saying this is a turning point, because it still feels a long way from that (play well and still don't win is a recipe relegation), but this WAS something to build on. We have to play like that i every game and hopefully be clinical.