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RIP Frank. Made the game look very easy.

Why would City be interested in a smoke screen? Smells more agent placed story - link Ings to City, gets the media attention for his client who is out of contract in 15 months time, in a slow football news week

Surely he's too good for that "level"

Nom nom

Haters gonna hate

I think Redmond is not on his own with below par performances but for some reason he’s the one that receives most of the flack. Be nice.

WANTED: New SW Scapegoat Don't choke on the humble pie lads.

You should mention this more often.

Winning the FA cup has no relevance to whether we stay up or not. We are much more likely to stay up than win the FA Cup so we may as well have a right old go at winning the cup. A limp performance tomorrow would be unacceptable.

Let’s never ever ever again think that Jack Stephens can play DM. The game is literally passing him by.

Blocking pathway isn't bollocks when you're talking about the 3rd player for a position. I'd much rather have Alex Janke wishing to prove himself in the squad, knowing there are 2 players ahead of him for the team than spending £10m on Mario Lemina and paying that cock £50K a week for him to play 2 or 3 times a season. There seems to be a misconception about what a pathway is. The pathway doesn't have to ultimately end with the academy player being a first team regular for us. The player could move to another club in the premier league such as Targett or Reed. Or they may end up having to drop down the leagues to forge a professional career, which is where Vokins and Valery will probably have to go. The pathway has still worked for Vokins and Valery.

Jan hasn't been shocking at right back. He defends well enough (better than Valery) just that Jan doesn't offer much going forward and neither has Valery of late. A club our size cannot have a 3rd choice for a position in our squad. 2 DMs should mean 4 in the squad; JWP, Diallo, Romeu, Smallbone, Jankewitz are 5 so unless you want cock Lemina getting in the way of Will and Alex you'd have to say no thanks Mario, jog on. Same goes for Ely, our 4 AMs at the start of the season; Theo, Nathan, Armstrong, Moussa - now added to with Mina and the emerging Tella - adding Ely makes 7 and would you want Ely blocking Tella's path? Or given our budget restraints should we ship him up Glasgow? The season is too condensed, we've picked up an unprecedented number of injuries. Players that have proven themselves not really up to playing in the top league should be allowed to play elsewhere and let those teams contribute towards their wages, rather than sit here in the off chance of playing in a game we know there not really up to or they block the path of a younger player.

Has it? Would Valery be picked over Jan or Stephens at right back?

Our squad needs two left backs. It doesn't look like Vokins is going to be one of the two left backs so he needs to find another club as he really needs playing time. If Ryan is willing to accept a contract that reflects the likelihood of him becoming the back up left back over the duration of that contract then that would be good business for us. We do need to find that left back that will eventually take Ryan's place though.

It's a great pass between Kante and Rudiger. When you see that pass from behind the goal I think you can appreciate it more. Mina didn't break stride, took a fantastic first touch and then finished superbly.

Or... it was a line breaking pass beyond Kante splitting the Chelsea defence in half with the perfect weight for Mina to run on to. The goal was made on the training pitch, Ralph's post match interview said as much.

Very different types of players... unless you are referring to the "support" George received.

Another fans favourite..

I was going to say the same.. the shit Nathan would've got on here if he'd matched Djenepo's attempt.

I think it's unfair to single out Redmond for a lot of what is going wrong. Neither Ings, Adams or Moussa would've scored a higher mark than Redmond in the first half. That's not to say Redmond would've scored more than a 4 or 5 out out 10 but if people are going to abuse Redmond I'd like to know why the other front 3 are not afforded the same "advice".

How is that not a yellow??!!

Haha and watch Ricarlison rip Moussa a new one

The best of the front 4 that half

Unlucky not to be 2 up at half time. Not blaming Tella for his miss as he is clearly improving with each game... but if that chance falls to Armstrong it’s in the net. KWP would’ve had a tough night against Raphina. Felt for Jan and it won’t be getting any easier for him anytime soon. Valery would’ve been roasted by Raphina. The form of Ings and Adams is really poor. They look like strangers.

Fuck me Ings and Adams are in dreadful form at the moment.