saintant

Stealing a living and Jones should not be giving him game time which any other squad member is more deserving of. Get him out of the club at the first opportunity.

We'll not win the FA Cup so any further progress is a bonus. We need some big performances in the league now but I'm not sure we have the players or the nous because we struggle in even the basics.

Hope Jones got right stuck into them after they got careless and risked giving up a two goal lead.

None of the above 🙂

You would like to think that's a given but we'll probably keep him despite the fact he is clearly poor and not bothered.

We pay people money to scout players. Other clubs like Brighton seem to be able to identify and sign very good players in our price range. It is not impossible but clearly we do not have the personnel with the competence to spot talent.

I think we're risking spending £20 million on a young player who may not be an upgrade on Tella. Completely bonkers.

Sorry. I don't see the relevance of a £70m player.

Agree. What we need and have needed for an eternity is a goal scoring number 9 with some height, power, speed and skill, Another tricky winger will not add much if anything to our collective ability to score goals. Not sure what the thinking is unless we're just saying it's impossible for us to get a decent striker for the money we'll pay so we'll bring in another winger who may create a bit of panic which might lead to more goals. Big gamble and wrong call in my opinion.

Tick....Tock....Tick....Tock. Somebody give Rasmus a nudge because I think he must have dozed off.

Where....Bournemouth? 🙂

It shows arrogance but I'd be pretty confident if I was them. Having said that I'd love nothing more than to see us wipe the smug smiles off the faces of their coaches, owners, players and fans. I'd give us long odds to do it unfortunately but stranger things have happened.

We all know spending will not guarantee our survival - we are in a very sticky situation. However, we have to do something and the general consensus is that we need a goal scorer this window to give ourselves a fighting chance. It might not work but let's at least see SR give it a go instead of the constant prevaricating which has extended from last summer when we were pretty much promised a new striker.

Not sure I share your confidence that we'd see a swift return to the Premier League. It's a dog fight to get to be one of the lucky three that go up. We'll likely float around in mid table.

He looks great. Two brilliant headed goals there. Maybe you should be our new chief scout 🙂

We were completely robbed by City - they made suckers of us.

The complete blunder by SR of not signing a capable experienced goalkeeper is worse than their failure to sign a striker - they are allowing a youngster to be hung out to dry week in week out which is clearly destroying his confidence.

Almost certainly.

Not only surrounding the ref, our players should have been squaring up to Pope and letting him know what they thought of that reckless challenge - imagine what the Newcastle players would have done if one of their's got clattered like that - look how they reacted when Bruno got a few digs that were minor in comparison. We are just not nasty enough and so get bullied.

You can't just count our misses when you say we could have gone into the second leg 2-1 up - if you include Newcastle's misses they'd probably be going into next week about 5-2 up.

Disgrace that. It was dangerous play and an outfield player doing it would have conceded a free kick and been booked as a minimum. Referee bottled that by not even awarding a free kick.

I think even if he doesn't we're still fucked.

I think Mara has a very bright future but he is not anywhere near to being he finished product. Got to hope he's a quick learner because I see real talent there.

Could have been worse. DCC's total lack of pace exposed although to be fair he got dragged out to the wing where he's always going to lose a race against Isac. Alcatraz had bright moments and will be a good player for us with a few more games. Adam Armstrong caused them problems with his pace and running. Che did what he always does and missed our best chance - was a poor attempt. Mara did ok and is worth more games and Edozie was lively until final ball. Our passing is still pretty poor. Don't give us much chance now but at least we're still in it I guess. With a decent forward and midfield enforcer we do have the makings of a reasonable side but will we get anyone in? Newcastle are a horrible side - very easy to dislike.

Alcaraz has done well as far as I'm concerned. Plenty of potential there.