S-Clarke

I'm personally not counting on Lemina, I want shot of the loser. The problem for the club will be that he's still a CM on the books, so until his situation is resolved it will put any additions in that area on hold. I believe the club see Jankewitz as a proper DM type. If we can shift Carrilo, Lemina and Hoedt this summer, it will open up so many avenues to improve our squad. If it were possible, I'd sue Ross Wilson for each of their transfer fees.

We've also got Lemina returning - not sure if he'll leave for good or he'll be given another crack. Who knows. So with PEH gone, you'd have Smallbone, JWP, Romeu, Lemina, Reed, Jankewitz all still contracted to us in midfield.

I don't know, it's a tricky one. I think if we were looking at it if he wasn't our player, we'd be kind of happy to be linked with one of the best championship midfielders. But I guess we've seen him at this level before and he has flittered in and out a bit. He could just be a very good Championship player and no more, but the club will know that better than us.

Leicester just collapsed. Their season is imploding in front of their eyes. It's not like a Brendan Rogers team to fall at the final hurdle.

Why have Leicester just hit the self destruct button? Weird.

Yeah, we had problems at the start. Got a couple of decent away results at Sheffield United and Brighton, but that wasn't as straight forward as the score line suggested - we were lucky in both of those iirc. We needed a bit of a readjustment and I'm glad the club backed Ralph to oversea that, as I never saw him as the problem. He was working with quite a disjointed bunch and he's somehow managed to forge a team with them. I just hope we make the most of Ralph and provide him the funds to add quality in a couple of positions.

Douglas Luiz, really? I think he's garbage and has been all season for Villa. Very hyped and doesn't do a great deal aside from give the ball away from the games I've seen 15m wasted.

It has been a complete turn around, like you said even barring that little dip in Feb we have been pretty solid since November to be honest. We'd be nailed on top half had and pushing for top 6 had it not been for our late September/October form, we even started the season decent enough.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49684490 Who'd have thought....so many months on!

Bournemouth defend as badly as any team I've ever seen, and I include us in that.

If i'm truly honest I don't believe the club will 'replace' Pierre. They will use those funds in other areas, and look to the likes of Smallbone/Jankewitz and possibly Reed to fill that role.

You're being incredibly harsh. Redmond is the least of our problems in this side. He came on leaps and bounds last year, and is just struggled with a bit of an injury since restart.

That was so weird. But it goes to show how well we did last week!

Don't think he was ever a goal scorer though, seemed to be more of a number 10 type player - but we kinda relied on him as our only source of goals in our relegation season, which was never going to end well. Sheff U fans love him, good work rate and good quality in and around the box - just doesn't really score goals, as I don't think that's ever been his true game.

Could use someone like Will Ferry? Really highly rated from the academy.

McGoldrick's first ever PL goals. Big results today. Watford and West Ham pretty much making themselves safe, Bournemouth villa now all but gone. Chelsea's defeat has thrown European football hopes wide open... (not for us, though - the results today pretty much ended our top half hopes)

I don't think he's played too badly? Bit frustrating, maybe, but he's been great in our press and winning the ball back. He gives us a great outlet. I still think we lack another Redmond type in the team though, Armstrong if played on the opposite site doesn't really cut it for me. There's a lot of reliance on KWP for example to provide the width, I think having another wide man on the opposite flank could make us even more balanced, we could switch the wide players around too during the game. There's absolutely zero competition for Redmond at the moment. I know we've got Moussa, but all he ever does is seemingly sit on the injury table! I think we need a bit more on the wings, esp. if we ditch Boufal (which I hope we do).

September I believe.

Bourinho has killed them. He is so past it as a manager, not capable of adapting to the modern game.

Bournemouth should have won that. They've gone now I think, bar the officialness.

I think we can pretty much write off any wins at Goodison, ever. Just exclude this game from any pre-season predictions and assume a non-win! If we had Messi out there, we still wouldn't win here. We played well enough 1st half, should have been out of sight. We had them opened up so many times, they couldn't handle our movement. Penalty miss was unfortunate, ings header was unfortunate, but we had so many opportunities and if it wasn't Goodson we'd have come away with another 3-1, easily. It's because it's Goodson that we can't, some sort of force field in front of the away goal or something. 2nd half we tired, which is so not surprising. So much effort has been put in over the last couple of weeks! Onto the next one, not expecting anything from that if I'm honest, but we've got 3 games after Man Utd where we can hopefully end with a nice positive bounce.

Don't think Europe has ever really been an option, top half would require us to probably win our remaining games. I reckon we'll finish where we are - 12th, 13th. Between 46-49 pts. Wouldn't have said that back in November.

It's the default thing to say when you're losing every week. The reality is that this league is where it all is. There's no easy way back for them, long, long road and lots of financial problems.

I don't really pay much attention to anything Garth says, he speaks absolute bollocks on a consistent basis. Jack in any team of the weak was a no brainer, it's not like he had to put much thought into it. I wouldn't call any accolades from Garth as high praise!

What do you mean by 'Fragility' ? I think Armstrong is absolutely perfect for the press in the oppo half of the pitch. Wouldn't be dropping him any time soon.