S-Clarke

Sadly I think short-terimism will win and he will leave. Whilst the toxic ingrained deeper problems within the club are swept under the carpet once more.

I'd love to know who people feel can replace him? For me, there are two issues before the manager - but the manager will often become the fall guy. Those problems will continue no matter who is in charge. 1 - Ownership. The guy is a joke. 2 - Players - they are a bunch of losers. The manager is his own worst enemy as he raised expectations by overachieving with this group, but football is all about quick fixes sadly and the manager is the qickest fix so that's clearly what will happen sooner rather than later. Not that it should.

I wouldn't go anywhere near him with a new contract. I appreciate his efforts for us, he has done us a good service over numerous years. But, he's done. His legs have gone, his pace is gone. He is next to useless for us. Sadly, I don't think we can lose him as we'd lose him for free. Therefore we'd have no scope to replace him, so we'd be a bit screwed. I think we will have to keep him by default.

That second half was a true, true disgrace. An absolute mess. This group of 'professionals' need to have a long hard look in the mirrors, as they are all utter fails. Losers, the lot of them. Absolute complete losers.

It's a fairly even game in my eyes, but it's concerning how many clear cut chances Brighton have had - mainly created by our mistakes or lapses in concentration. We have also looked threatening to a degree, but not as much as Brighton imo. 1-1 is fair, but it's there for either team to step it up. Brighton looked to be stepping it up based on the end of the 1st half.

He hasn't been great. The saves he's made are the basic I'd expect from any professional goal keeper. The goal he did concede highlighted his enormous weakness and why we need to do better than him.

Why would you do that? Would hand the game to Brighton in the middle.

Is he available for free?

Quite a fair score line I'd say, two very similar football teams. Play good football, make some nice movements, but also prone to calamity mistakes on a consistent basis. Started the game asleep, but we did pick it up after they scored and did react. Half time came at a good time because Brighton were starting to dominate again. So, two even teams, but I'd say Brighton have created the most clear cut/gilt edged chances - we keep giving them opportunities. Absolutely diabolical from Forster and Bertrand on their goal.

The people asking us to make a stand....would be exactly the same people throwing the club under a bus once he leaves for free and we don't replace him. Because that's what will happen. We can't replace players without having the money in the bank first, so letting players go on frees will eventually leave us with no squad.

That 11 kind of picks it's self again, only place really up for grabs is that 2nd striker and left winger birth. But you can't argue with the 11 he's gone with really. No square pegs, players in natural areas of the pitch. More balanced width down the left and the right side. We will miss Ings, no doubt, but I can see Tella playing on the shoulder today - Minamino dropping back and playing balls through the middle/down the sides. Could be a way to exploit, as they don't have a particularly quick defence.

I used to stick up for him a little bit back in those days, but it was quite apparent as the months went on (the season after the play off push) that it was like watching your unfit dad try and play football with his work mates. In the play off push he was mainly centre midfield for us, alongside Viafara.

I don't think they're doing anything wrong really, whilst it's frustrating to read, they're just operating a sensible strategy with who they are approaching. It's us who is doing it wrong - letting these first team players slip down to 1 year remaining. Poor squad management.

West Brom are dross. Won't miss them next year. Palace aren't much better either, this game has been pure pain. This group of the league (Palace down) is really a swamp of trash. Sadly, we've managed to join it.

He didn't really pass forward, he recycled the ball sideways and back. I think another contributing factor is Ings drop off, combination of injuries/fitness have lead to him being in and out of the side this year. I think most feared what would happen to us if Ings was missing/not firing, and I think this has showed the result a missing Ings has on us. He's our only consistent source of goals and due to him having a pretty terrible season, truth be told, we are struggling big style to score goals or create meaningful chances over a consistent period.

The last thing we should be doing is reducing the squad further, that's why I find it hard to align Semmens comments with Ralphs. Ralph is out there publicly wanting 2 for each position, yet the club are here saying we have to sell before we can buy. Given we don't already have 2 for each position, I don't see how the selling does anything other than make the situation even worse. I guess the only way we could facilitate that is through a really, really large sale or two. Let's prepare for that I guess. £60m for JWP? £30m for Ings?

To be fair the majority of that came from the sales of Reed, PEH and the loan fees we got for Hoedt and Lemina. You'll notice we didn't actually confirm the signings for Diallo and KWP until PEH and Reed had been sold, which I think tells you all you need to know in terms of what was funding those. We did seem to find some loose change to fund the Salisu deal before hand though, but anything else that happened after that was only as a result of selling.

It's probably a combination - you also have to factor in that we weren't going to have it all our own way for ever. Teams will become cute to our approach and will have ways to try and counteract it. I think Tella is someone who is breaking through that can stretch games on the break, but I'd potentially go out and replace Redmond/Moussa next year with someone consistent and with an end product. I don't think we have players who can deliver that end product consistently enough when we get into those positions. So if you consider that teams have probably got more cute to our approach, add it together with the injuries and lack of squad cohesion and it's created a mess of a season really.

That was a fair result in my eyes. Newcastle needed to win that though.

That just comes down to the lack of quality/depth in the squad. We had a few square pegs in key defensive positions and that makes a huge difference against teams of the quality of city. Not much else we could do though, certainly wouldn't have risked KWP tonight.

This is how I see it and why I'm behind Ralph. I see that we have a philosophy, a way of playing, something everyone has seemingly bought into. We are let down by the lack of quality and squad depth. That's it. The way we play, the way we approach games in the main is a progressive and modern way....but if we had a tad more quality in the back 4 and up front/wide, then I think the story would be amazing. I prefer seeing a team with a plan and a way to play than an Allardyce play for a 1-0/long ball bullshit, which is very short-termism and doesn't get you anywhere. What's letting us down is the lack of quality and depth, not the manager's ability or his philosophy - in my opinion

We were actually fairly solid up until January, all gone to shit since then in spectacular style. Obviously the Utd result skews that a little bit as well.

Just putting it out there, what if we went full strength from the start, still shipped 3 or 4, but lost KWP and Diallo to a reoccurrence and they were out for 'weeks' again? I'd say that would have been a much worse outcome. I see why he did what he did tonight. We don't have the luxury of two 11s though, which is why it becomes a bit square pegs when we do want to change it up.

I don't disagree and that's why I still class GK as a 'nice to change' position rather than a priority. But this is what I mean with having flexibility in order to evolve the squad. We're so hamstrung that we have to ignore the other glaring holes which aren't as glaring as other areas. £10m on two keepers, one out on loan and one not truly established here anymore. You'd have hoped one of those would have been our first choice for years, but another club fail in the recruitment department.

It's amazing how many goals of similar style we conceed, we just don't get a tackle in - either in the box, or on the outside. We just let them dance around. I don't know why...is it an instruction they are following? ''stay on your feet' or whatever. I dunno, but we are meek as fuck in those situations.