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Doesn't bode well for us on Sunday. The 9-0 record could well go.

That was a very tough and embarrassing watch. We are so weak, feeble and poor all over the pitch and completely out of our depth. Thank feck we're going down because I couldn't stand another season like this one. At least we'll get a few more wins in the Championship although I don't think we'll be anywhere near promotion. Selles must go because again he picked the wrong players tonight and left it too long to change things. A rebuild is needed but keep Ankersen well away from it.

Now making them look like Man City.

Nothing more predictable than that.

Need a goal so we bring on Lyanco. JWP off - suspect words have been said in the dressing room.

That was about as dire as it gets - we are clueless and so weak and feeble. We need something up front so Selles may as well throw on Adams and Sulemana now. We don't look like scoring and you get the impression Bournemouth will get one. Fortunately it doesn't really matter because this display just reinforces the fact that this side don't belong in the top league. Very poor.

I see Man Utd won the 2nd/3rd place FA Cup play off today. Pretty drab game but, as usual, Utd got the rub of the green even though Brighton were marginally the better side.

Why not take off the invisible man Adam Armstrong then? He contributed next to nothing while on the pitch - I thought he even lacked effort which is the least that should be expected.

On the flip side he might have scored a hat-trick if we'd kept him on - that's the opposing positive scenario.

3 match ban is for straight red. If we were worried he'd pick up a second yellow that would have been a one match ban. Not ideal but we could live with it. We can't be basing decisions on what might happen because we're not sat in mid table obscurity. I'm sure Arsenal were delighted to see Alcaraz taken off at half time.

It is clearly bonkers to take off your best player because you worry he'll pick up a second yellow especially in our current predicament. Our desperate situation calls for risk taking not a conservative approach. Same goes for subbing Lavia unless he was injured. When he went off Odegaard suddenly began to have a big influence whereas he'd been fairly anonymous until then. If we'd kept Alcaraz on and squeezed the final minutes out of Lavia we would have greatly increased our chance of taking all 3 points. Selles needs to realise that caution is not an option now.

To be fair Gary Neville stressed more than once after the incident that he hates those type of challenges and said they should be taken more seriously with action against the player for endangering an opponent. It is time this kind of action resulted in a straight red card as it is one of the most dangerous and irresponsible things a player can do.

I think some are perhaps being a bit harsh on that performance - there was much to admire even though it was disappointing not to come away with 3 points. We are all frustrated so are maybe not giving the team the credit they deserve. Even at 3-1 I'm sure most of us suspected that when Arsenal got that goal back they'd go on to draw or even win as there was plenty of time to go. The loss of two points away to the League leaders is not what will relegate us it's the many sub-standard performances against lesser sides. It was a great game to watch, one of the best we've been involved in all season and we can take far more out of it than the countless drab games where we lost 1-0 and barely laid a glove on our opponents.

I think the point I'm trying to make is obvious. Not sure what it has to do with our previous keepers.

I think for Odegaard's goal a top keeper anticipates he'll go for that corner and is on the move thus giving him a better chance of making the save - Bazunu waits for the shot to be hit then dives so is invariably far too late. I think one of his greatest weaknesses is his lack of anticipation

It's official - Selles is mad!!!!!!!

Tall Paul and Sulemana for Theo and AA. We'll need to go long second half and this will give us an outlet.

Would have started Djenepo and Sulemana - at least we'd be unpredictable.

That's a prolific front two and with Mo supplying the ammunition we are set to score goals tonight 🙂

Who'd have thought it....play attacking football, improve and win matches - maybe someone should point this out to Selles who continues to do what O'Neill was doing before he found the magic formula.

Sounds like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Horse is long gone so far too late to bolt the stable door.

Agree entirely. The slow shuffling of the ball at the back in an effort to show that we are a cultured football side is a joke. If you are going to play that way you must have full backs and centre backs who are switched on, ready to move into space and receive the ball, control it with one touch and move it on quickly. As well as that, the midfield must come short to receive the ball. We do none of this so it only plays into our opponents hands. Either learn to play the system properly (Man City are the masters but we don't need to be their level) or go down a different route because our plodders just look embarrassing. Let's get some wide players hugging the touch line and get some service to Tall Paul as well as stretching the opposition. One holding midfielder should be enough and probably Lavia is the best fit which leaves JWP without a role unless we play him further up the pitch. At the moment he is offering nothing because his lack of pace means he resorts to negative passes back and sideways - he's currently a problem rather than a solution. Start the game fast because we are always better when we do that instead of pointless possession just to keep things tight - take some risks for a change. Not sure what we do about the goalkeeper but those in charge should have realised very early in the season that Bazunu is not even close to being ready to play at this level - not convinced he ever will be. It's a mess and we know a reset is coming during the summer - the question is, have the clowns running the club got the nous to make the right calls or maybe Jason Wilcocks can work a miracle. We've fallen a long way and those in charge need to hold their hands up and take responsibility.

My comments, if not clear, are based on Tella being sold to Burnley or another Premier league club.

Not in the Premier league he isn't and we know from experience how much tougher Tella is likely to find it against better defenders as demonstrated by Adams and Armstrong. Both scored far more goals than Tella yet have struggled so I think he still has a lot to prove.

Unless he is completely incompetent he'd be hard pressed to make us any worse.