StrangelyBrown

Maybe a blessing. I don't like to see our players injured but something needs to force hassenhutl's hand

Another day (with a different ref/var) we get a deserved early penalty and it's a different game. About time refs were answerable for their decisions - he's been appauling throughout. From a team perspective you could argue that Romeu should have tracked Barkley's run, but other than Walcott again being anonymous again I'd keep going as we are.

Positives were stuey, diallo and jwp. Che was ok too. Otherwise was a poor performance. Most disappointing was Ings who is playing at 75% (at most) and looking like his head is somewhere else. Another poor refereeing performance from Mr friend - nothing that really changed the game, but too many frequent basic (deliberate?) mistakes. How he earns a living being so shit is beyond me.

For once we need a 2nd half performance. Too many poor performances - I can forgive Valery and vokins - they simply aren't good enough at the moment, the apathy from Ings speaks volumes and surely Walcott can do a lot better. Time for some nuns???

He should try playing a bit better. If he carries on like this he might as well fuck off to spurs

I thought he was pretty anonymous against Shrewsbury and in a game like that should have stood out. It will be interesting to see whether he plays against the arse - he didn't really push on from a year or so ago when he looked a decent prospect and given he hasn't had many opportunities since he may have fallen out of favour.

I didn't say it was a good idea...

Perhaps we'll see jwp at right back with kwp on the left?

Perhaps the Club are trying to find a way to cash in on a saleable asset while he is still saleable for a decent price so they can replace and repeat. I couldnt blame them if they did to be honest, there is no room for sentimentality in football anymore - money, greedy agents and players destroyed that a long time ago.

Got through that without really getting out of 2nd gear with a bunch of kids playing. No injuries, no bookings. Job well done.

I take it back, that cross was abysmal

I'm surprised at how bad Shane long has been. He looks like he's playing above his level and struggling to cope. I honestly expected him to be decent tonight against weaker opposition. On a positive note valery looks comfortable going forwards, watts looks good, diallo and jwp are bossing midfield without breaking a sweat.

A bit more quality up front and we comfortably win that game irrespective of the goal. We desperately need some better attacking options off the bench... Shane long - Leicester must have been quaking in their boots...

I'll agree with that, but a decent keeper doesn't get beaten by that shot. What the fuck was he doing kneeling down FFS?

Hardly Stephens fault for not saving a near post shot. Shit keeping - he couldn't have made himself smaller.

Both of Mane's penalty appeals were dives where he threw out his arms before falling over - it is the tell tale sign that refs look for. Watch them both again - clear as day. Thiago had at least 3 warnings and should have be yellowed for the foul on Djenepo I wasnt commenting on us, just responding to the Scousers view that they were somehow cheated

Thiago should have gone after 25 mins, but the ref bottled it and again just after half time. Had he been one of ours I suspect he would have gone.... Mane should have had 2 yellows for dives - again never going to happen to a big 6 player

Great gutsy performance - even the kids came on and did us proud. Couldn't be more proud to be a saint tonight!

One mistake does not make a liability. Don't get me wrong I'm not a Stephens fan, but he was good today. If you are going to judge based on one mistake is Ings now a disaster?? He made numerous mistakes/poor decisions today and arguably one of the weaker players on the pitch.

I think we've again been undone by not being able to break down an unadventurous team again. Ralph has been far too slow to try and change things up and seems too content to try and nick a spawny goal to win these sort of games. I thought defensively we were pretty good. Unfortunately we seem to have lost that bit of zip with the ball that we had earlier in the season and I can't help but feel that we've been somewhat found out. Djenepo doesn't seem to be on the same wavelength as Bertrand and Ings hasn't hit the form we would expect from him, but the service is awful at the moment. Adams had an off day but hardly surprising given he was booted in the head.

Walcott has given us most of the threat so far. Need to continue to exploit his and walker peters pace down the right hand side. Left hand side is looking weaker, but what I can't work out is whether the cause is djenepo or betrand (everyone who plays in front of Bertie at the moment seems to play shit)

Sorry I can't agree with that. He was awful throughout. He might have taken his offside chance we'll, but he was offside FFS. He did very little to create a nuisance of himself, but did a spectacular job of making runs into the same areas as Che and being on a completely different wavelength to everyone else. Shane has never been good enough for a regular starting spot for us and now he spends half his time jogging around looking useless he wouldn't be good enough for most championship teams.

He's been poor today but long is setting the benchmark for proper shit

Djenepo on, long off and, Walcott up front and we've got a good chance of winning this.

Who is this idiot commentator, has literally no idea what the rules are and has his tongue so far up Fulham's arse it is quite ridiculous. We're suffering from having 10 players (or should I say Shane long) - looking very poor going forward today