The Kraken

Even if he is just playing for a transfer away in the summer, its low risk for us. If he plays one game for us, he cannot play for another team this season, even on loan (as he'll have played for 2 clubs already). So if he is looking for a move away, he needs to put the performances in, which benefit us. And as I sadi, he doesn't seem to have burned his bridges with the players or the manager, so that's not something I have huge concern about. I always thought the biggest hurdles were between Puncheon and the chairman, and Puncheon and the fans. The chairman has seemingly thawed in his approach to the player, hopefully the fans can too. Even if we can still agree that Puncheon is, in all likelihood, a monumental tw*t.

That's a very simplistic way to look at it, given that we actually had a bid of more than double that accepted in the summer before failing to agree personal terms. As for Puncheon; he clearly has a lot to prove, I genuinely don't know if he is better than what we already have, but if he can get his head down and put in performances hich we know he can, it'll be a decent move by the club. He clearly didn't burn bridges with the players, and it would seem with the manager, so its a low risk gamble to take.

Yep, I didn't quite think that one through! I guess, whatever happens, it sends a ripple effect down to where an AFC Pompey get introduced into the league. Quite how it gets managed is making my head hurt thinking about it, so I'm going to stop.

I think you're somewhat right; however its not that we haven't acquired good enough backup players. Its that we haven't brought in the one or two quality first team players we've clearly been after, which would have made players such as Connolly and Guly our new backups. As a first team pairing those two have been hit and miss; with a quality first choice strike force of Lambert plus another, having Guly and Connolly in reserve is a pretty damn good array of options.

It would make common sense for just 2 teams to get relegated. If 4 teams came up from League One you'd an extra team promoted from league 2, and therefore an extra team promoted from the Conference etc etc etc. 2 teams relegated; 1 team liquidated, replaced in the normal manner by the three teams promoted from L1.

Is this him?

Yep, aside from that (which I agree with), you'd be hard pushed to disagree with the choice of first XI. The changes he made couldn't really be disputed either. No doubting we were out-fought, out-passed and out-played all night tonight. No doubt. But we still have the players available and yet to return to turn it around again.

We're not doing nothing though, are we? Explain how signing two players and trying for more is doing nothing, would you please? The manager realises our shortfalls; we have limited options up front, which are exposed by having Lambert (the division's top scorer) and Lallana (the division's best attacking player) unavailable. 5 goals in two games without Lambert suggested we adapted ok without our most potent strike force; tonight was a performance that is best forgotten, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone to disagree with that.. Not many people will or should try to airbrush our recent form or tonight's performance from memory. Giving up on the team is another thing altogether, and one which I won't do even when (like right now) I'm ridden with doubt about our prospects for the rest of the season.

No, no-one is surrendering.

Please God, say it will be so. He won't though; just a very tedious, unfunny WUM and a coward.

F*ck me, the negative know it alls are out in force tonight aren't they? Yes, well done pal, you've given up already. You continue doing that. As far as I can see there's still just under half a season yet to play in this campaign; is it really that surprising that a lot of others aren't quite ready to unfurl the white flag of surrender just yet?

Its an exaggeration. We're still in second place. Surrender all you like though.

I don't buy that excuse, to be fair. I think our backup players are at least as good as the backup players other leading sides have. Its just that Lmabert, Lallana and Fonte especially are that good, its very difficult to have backup players who can come in and consistently and adequately fill the void they leave behind. Lallana is consistently rated as the best player outside the Premier League; its natural we're worse off without him. Same for Lambert, top scorer in the league and up there with assists too. It doesn't excuse Guly and Connolly giving us nothing up top and our midfield looking swamped, mind.

I do agree with that, Harding is as one footed as they come and I always fear having full backs like that (as the first goal proved). Credit where its due, Leicester have done their homework and look a good side on this showing (as £14M transfer spending should do). But we shouldn't be this under par, we've caused their keeper no trouble whatsoever, we look really toothless. Get to HT and NA needs some changes; can't see Falque staying on, he's done eff-all IMO.

It's really showing up what we massively lack. 1) Lambert, one of the best forwards who can hold up play and bring others into the game 2) Lallana, someone who naturally pushes defenders back and puts fear into them. Also very good at holding on to the ball, especially in the opposition half. 3) Fonte, a calming influence at the back and often dictates the pace of our play. Harsh to blame the replacements; but those 3 would arguably walk into any other championship team. That said, to be this second best to an albeit impressive Leicester performance is very disappointing so far.

Too easy. Far too easy. This is very poor. Leicester have got some very good players but we are gifting them this right now.

Falque's crossing has been awful so far! Put the sand wedge away son.

Slightly deserved, have to say. We've not really been in this, Leicester have done really well, very energetic, stopped us playing in their half and looked dangerous going forwards. We look toothless by comparison. Still time to turn it around, but we're second best so far.

Updated news from BBC Radio Merseyside's correspondent Mike Hughes:

Gaffer tape.

The bit in bold is not strictly true. Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE (born 5 January 1974 in Farnborough, London Borough of Bromley)..... He is a lifelong supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, even though he may latterly also have become a supporter of Southampton Football Club...

Yet its only now that its beginning to look like the complete truth may be allowed to come out. There has never been a full and proper enquiry into the events that happened after 3.15pm. Not even after 23 years.

True, but I'd be amazed if it got swept under the carpet any further. Dalglish has publicly supported her campaign, as have the Liverpool MPs, so it'll only gain further credence from here on in. Shocking that it's taken so long and such measures to get to this point. I've heard reports that the medical staff that treated her son said that, at 4pm, he called out for his mother. Which, if true, obviously blows the whole 3.15pm cut off wide open, and should in itself alone have led to a re-opening of the enquiry.

It's got well in excess of 100,000 petitions now, so it will be debated in the Commons.

The more you read about it, the more you understand and empathise with it. At the time, the coroner stated for fact that everyone who died, was dead before 3.15pm. Therefore any events that happened after that time were never taken into account in the enquiry. Some very difficult questions (such as why were ambulances held back outside the ground while people were dying) never really got answered, and the truth of whether people's lives could have actually been saved was never allowed to be investigated further. While it's considered likely that the majority of people had probably died by 3.15pm, there is supposedly a body evidence that this wasn't the case in a number of individual cases. Such as this one. IMO any action that can reveal the full details from that day can only be a good thing. Yes, nothing will bring the dead back, and of course many improvements have since been made in terms of policing and crowd control at football. But that doesn't negate the need for ALL of the facts to come out, even if it does become mroe of a finger pointing exercise. And if helps some of these parents and families to even get a bit closer to some form of closure, then it serves a purpose.