Toussaint

I didn’t see the game, how was KWP?

Good effort, like the half and half Feyenord kit also.

There was a poster named Twar on football he was such a bore he couldn’t wrong Not in his eyes but for old Toussaint he did make me snore

Our main areas requiring improvement are GK, Defence, midfield and the strikers, all we need to do is sort out those areas and I think we will be in good shape.

Strange way of judging him really, it's not really what he's there for, his job is to get the ball, run at goal and have a dig, as well as causing panic in the oppositions defence, I'm not sure which Armstrong you are talking about but if you are talking A and Che, you could argue they should be shooting more on sight than passing off responsibility.

I share your views, being able to bring on Foden and Mahrez illustrates that point. The gulf in class (wealth) made it us look like a plucky championship side having a good go at a team a league above. The PL is pretty toxic now with most teams just making up the numbers

True, henceforth I vow not to refer to Redmond as Deadmond.

The midfield is not doing its job at all, it’s providing little protection for the defence and not creating any good opportunities for the strikers.

Because he was trying to cover two players, deja vu Villa, Elyonoussi MIA

This is precisely the reason we do much better against the superior teams.

Maybe a bit of that, but I think teams have worked us out, even Norwich did to a degree, but didn’t have the weapons to exploit it. Other factors could be Broja’s head now seems to be elsewhere, Tino has probably been over used, particularly since his injury and we have no real pace to break the lines. Also, People always seem to gun for our CB’s when things go wrong, but I feel the defending problems are often a result of our midfield not functioning.

I felt Peraud was scapegoated at Villa, I was at the game and it was clear he was being left completely isolated in 2 v 1 situations, Elyounoussi was awol, there may have been good reason for that, but that’s what needed fixing, not Peraud.

We have been well and truly worked out

Borja had to harden up if he wants to succeed at the top, Kane gets mullered every game and cracks on with it .

I’m thinking Thunderbirds

Have to agree, it's too polarised, two things can be true at once. Success has to be rewarded, equally distributing wealth to poorly run clubs is the opposite of fair in my opinion. Something does need to be done, but complete equalisation isn't the answer for the premier league, or anything else for that matter.

I think referring to them as a “crap team” is fully justified in the context of the bazillions they have spent and where they are. Think about the word “team”, they just aren’t a team, a few honest players in there but mostly prima Donna divas. I think Gary Neville was about to inform us that certain players may have refused to play yesterday, unfortunately the buffoon Micah Richards cut him off before he could expand on what he was hinting at, Ragnick (sp?) alluded to something similar in the post match interview. I think crap “team” is a fair assessment

Anyone watch the post match show? It was refreshing to hear such brutal honesty from Keane and Neville, rare thing in these touchy-feely times. Micah Richards made an absolute tit of himself and Jamie Redknapp was just talking words. Wish I’d had some popcorn to fully enjoy the experience!

Scary times

Re Cash, I think we made him look world class. (I was at the match), I like Elyonoussi but I though he reverted to his worst form yesterday, Peraud was continually left isolated with two on ones, which made him look bad. I don’t know if Elyonoussi was being pulled out of position trying to nullify something Villa were doing, or he was just having a bad day, one thing that was glaring yesterday however was his lack of pace. But it wasn’t just him, several had shockers, but I felt if we could have got to half time at just one nil Ralph could have sorted it, but a two goal deficit made life so much more difficult.

We'll be interested to hear about your encounter with your very first football forum admirer. ;/

I thought the upper west archers section worked best

The first step is admitting your problem, I'm sure all those French people feel safer now

I bumped into him a few weeks back, he still hasn't got over that, I said "one day at a time Poch, one day at a time my son"!

I think they do, it's often months later when you read the court appearances the echo or elsewhere, it comes to light. It is a criminal offence to enter the field of play.