James

Rohl is a good choice. Happy with him if it’s true.

This is unacceptable. Absolutely gutless. Martin should be ashamed.

Can we sack him at half time?

We are the laughing stock of the league. Sad thing is the Board don’t even care. Don’t want Russ next season, will be too poisonous. Need to change this.

If the officials can’t implement it properly it should be scrapped. It’s utter rubbish in its current form.

Ref not being particularly even handed. Mitoma has committed multiple fouls with no booking.

Awful from Stephens for the goal.

Big Paul Is making a huge difference here. Has given Arma and Dibling a focal point to run off.

Exactly. The debate at his point is not whether we will go down but whether we will beat the lowest amount of points in a PL season ever. Any board that is happy with that outcome isn’t one I want in charge of my club.

No team is owed anything but we are on course to barely better the record lowest points total of any team in the Premier League ever. Don’t think it’s unreasonable to be expecting better than that.

Lallana starts, good but why not use him in the more winnable game? Aribo doesn’t deserve to be dropped, bizarre decision that.

Here we go.

Archer!!

Don’t really get the team. Where is Manning playing? Seems unbalanced. Shame no start for TP after a very decent cameo.

Defensively all over the place here.

But he is a leader or something. The guy is crap, not PL standard. End of.

And there we go. Fuck off Archer, that was inexcusable and changed the game. Where was BBD for the pen?!

I hope that the plan is not to sign a right winger and play AA through the middle. The games when we played without Che and played AA through the middle didn’t always go to plan in the Championship…

As good as Fernandes may be I cannot fathom why we spent £15m on him when we clearly have no cash. For the price of him and Archer we could have had a go at a decent striker. God knows how we’ve ended up with Yuri Alberto on loan as the great hope.

I suspect the fact we are going for Alberto is because Corinthians are willing to do a loan deal. Genuinely can’t see any other reason for it as he looks, at best, bang average. Would rather get Josh Sargent or someone of that ilk. We’ve really had to do things on a shoe string this summer haven’t we? The places where we’ve spent our money are, with hindsight, a little odd.

Josh Sargent Evan Ferguson (loan) Eddie Nketieh (loan) We need a focal point relatively urgently or we are done. If we can afford a striker then let’s get Fraser and play BBD centrally. Stewart would be decent but he’s never fit and has barely played a minute for us. God we’ve really been fucked by signing him. What is it with SR and strikers?!

Glad to see we are giving a young player time before writing him off…

For sure but otherwise a very encouraging performance.

There are some seriously depressing posts on here. It’s disappointing to lose 0-1 for sure, especially given the circumstances, but most on here were predicting a drumming. if we don’t replace Macca we will go down, today doesn’t change that and hopefully RM can see it and we will push for a replacement. Overall I think we looked very very decent for large parts of the game today. A couple of additions to end the window and I think we will be just fine.

McCarthy is guff, we all know it. This club has a serious blind spot when it comes to keepers.