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A simple message to CP that might make the penny drop....the goals are at each end of the pitch, they are not and never have been on the sides of the pitch. Grasp that one small thing and you may yet manage to sort this mess out.

A small amount of rotation can work. However, Puel gets it totally wrong by making lots of changes for every game. It's not clever and it doesn't work. How does he expect the team to find any consistency? How are they meant to get used to playing together? How are individual players supposed to get match fit and play to their best? Sorry but his rotation policy is complete and utter nonsense.

Nail on the head!!!

Puel has turned us into a side that creates barely a half chance from open play and that is a considerable concern. His tactics are entirely to blame for this. We are horrible to watch.

Like his favoured style of football Puel is taking us backwards. Possession for possessions sake, aimless crosses into the box to nobody in particular. No cutting edge, no dynamic football, no playing between the lines just boring pass, pass pass in areas where it doesn't matter. We must be one of the worst teams to watch now and he's undone the good work of previous managers. Get him out of our club before he bores us all to death.

I still think JayRod will score goals but he must be given the ammunition. Yesterday we created very little from open play so he had few opportunities to shine. We didn't hit balls into the channels for him like we did against Bournemouth and we made it easy for Tottenham to defend against us. I agree we need a unit in midfield who can break up play allowing Romeu to sit and patrol in front of the back four. Our midfielders are all lightweight so that's something that needs to be addressed in the Jan window if possible. Spurs are a good side but after we scored we seemed content to allow them to come on to us as we retreated further and further towards our own goal - poor tactics by Puel and indicative of his constantly negative stance. I think he could have made some tactical switches at half time to try to wrestle back the initiative but they scored early and that was it. I did notice neither of our centre backs were picking up Kane on corners in the first half which concerned me and was not surprised to see him get free and score with a header from a corner.

Jay had no service for one simple reason - we played the diamond.

Not nearly good enough at this level I'm afraid. Unfortunately for the lad he dosesn't have the physical strength or speed required and boy did it show tonight against the Tottenham midfield.

Completely agree - we won't get him but boy do we need him alongside Romeu. Our other midfield players are all powderpuffs who can't tackle and have no physical presence. Can we justify playing JWP just because he puts in the occasional decent dead ball delivery? We need someone like Morgan who covers the ground, makes interceptions and is strong. That will allow the cretive players more chance to work their magic instead of continually chasing back.

Ditch the diamond or Spurs will win this - it has been one way traffic for last 30 minutes. Throw on Long up front with Rodriguez to give us an outlet.

Ryan's great individual effort was actually a superb team move if you watch the complete build up. Bertrand was involved at the start when he had the ball deep in the corner of our half. We played it from there up to the middle then to the right, back across to the left and that's where RB took over and did the rest. It was actually a superb move even though obviously he still had a lot to do when he received the ball on the left.

With a dour Frenchman as our coach trying to force his ridiculous formation on the players I guess nobody should be surprised that we don't entertain, we don't attack with any speed, movement or purpose and we certainly don't score many goals. Football is meant to be enjoyable but this bloke must be turning people off in droves. There will be those who are content with that as long as we retain a reasonable league position but for me our team must always go out and try to play entertaining football. This dull, insipid fare is just so uninspiring and I don't think Puel can set a team up to play any other way. He fools nobody with the sideways, backwards propaganda football which soon fizzles out through lack of movement and imagination as soon as we get anywhere near the opposition goal.

Claude will be delighted - he'll have plotted all week for a draw and that's exactly what he got. Is he completely incapable of getting these players to move into space and get between the lines? That's how you open up stubborn defences and create chances not by floating in a series of crosses when you have no forwards who carry much of an aerial threat. Absolutely played into their hands and threw away what would and should have been an important victory.

Win, lose or draw can we at least have a right go at them from the first minute rather than meaningless possession that creates nothing. What I don't want to see is a negative display with no ambition which will probably result in a one nil defeat. Let's have a right good go at them and start on the front foot at a high tempo.

Would like to see us come out of the blocks and have a go at sides in away matches. I get the impression this season that we set up to play for a point. With three points for a win we may as well have a go at teams and the odd win comes in very handy as it equates to three draws so why not go for it.

Good result against a side with a decent away record. Still don't understand the thinking behind playing Clasie alongside JWP - one of them only and preferably Clasie. I'd like to see far more movement off the ball when we get into the final third - too many players are static limiting the options of the man on the ball. We need to be moving and playing between the lines to create openings. Until we start doing that we'll continue to look pedestrian and struggle to make chances. More movement and we'll be a greater threat and the football will be more entertaining.

Miss the brave high-press football under Poch. Puel's boring possession for the sake of it football is horrible to watch and just allows the opposition to set up their defence and leaves us nowhere to go when we get near their goal.

Ditch the rotation, it doesn't work. Pick your best team and play them in every match. If an individual shows signs of fatigue give him a one match rest. Don't change three or four players every match - the best 1X need to be playing together week in week out. Players don't give their best when playing one week and out the next. Otherwise why do we always hear these excuses that a player is not match fit because he has not had a run of games? - you can't have it both ways. Either you get match fit by playing games or you get match fit by playing every other game - which is it?

He seems to have been around for ever and is thought of highly enough to captain the England U21s and some claim he'll progress to be handed the same honour for the senior team. People rave about his deadball delivery. Yet how many really great games does he have for us? More often than not he is ineffective and I don't recall us scoring shedloads of goals from his pinpoint corners and freekicks. For me he remains an enigma, his finishing is poor as proved again last week and I am still not convinced he is ever going to play well on a regular basis at the highest level. Once more he offered precious little today. Would love him to prove me wrong.

West Brom are 6th on 20pts. If we'd bothered to turn up today that could have been us.

With constant rotation we are going to get games like this where we look really poor. I firmly believe matters are not helped by us setting up wrong for away matches. Against Arsenal with no Charlie up front we had pace and movement and played very good football. He doesn't fit in and is better used off the bench in away matches. At home where we normally dominate he is fine but I think we lose something when he is one of the front three away from St Marys. We carved Arsenal open on numerous occasions and surely that is the style of play we need to adopt for away games.

That's embarrassing to be honest.

Don't start with Charlie in away games - it's hardly rocket science.

Swansea put five past these jokers!

Still think we should have started with Charlie on the bench. We need pace in away matches - should have played Long through the middle. Could be too much now to come back from two down. Not the first half we expected and we need to get right into them from the first kick in the second half if we are to have any chance. Really disappointing after some good displays.