S-Clarke

I don't see it. I see a kid with a hot head, poor positional sense, poor judgement and no strength. Needs a few seasons in the lower leagues.

He's not in the team to work hard or put in a shift defensively, he's in the team to create and be that spark which opens teams up and helps us create. He doesn't do that, and has very rarely done that for us. It was his chance yesterday to really stamp his authority on the game in an attacking sense, given he was the only attacking midfielder left in the side. He didn't. He flattered as per usual, and he needs to be gone out of the door asap in the summer.

That's my main gripe with tackles like that, there's no consistency employed. To the letter of the law both VAR checks y/day were correct, but it's how similar situations like those yesterday go unpunished which frustrates.

People talking as if this news means it's happening, and things are coming to an end. But the reality is that we've probably got a good few years of stories like this, whilst we struggle to sell. Kat was trying to sell us for years remember, as soon as she got her hands on us really, but the best we could get was Gao. It's a long road ahead to rid ourselves of Gao, but at least this is a start I guess - but just don't get excited too soon, there's a lot of years ahead of us yet.

At least we sorted the RB position out in January.

The recurring theme with Boufal 'Frustrating, he could offer me' - he can't though, can he. It's been years of the same from him, flattering. He is not suited to this league, end of. He will never, ever be a success in this league. He'll be a decent player in another league, but he's never a £20m player as we shelled out.

The club should honestly refund fans an entire season of home games. It is an utter, utter, utter shambles at home. Every.single.week. I've had enough of the **** show. 100% no season ticket for me next year, and I can gaurentee others will say the same. Same old **** really, lots of huff and puff, no real quality and no real openings in the 2nd half. Once Mousa was sent off, it was all on Boufal - his chance to show us why we kept him, why we spent £20m on him, and why he's supposedly so highly rated. He didn't show anything and was the usual Boufal we've all come to know and not love. He needs to go in the summer and we need to get someone who is actually suited to this league. We were lucky with the other results today, so no damage has really been done. But whatever happens, it's a truly depressing and worthless experience watching us try to play football at home.

PEH will be gone in the summer, £30m I reckon. We'd have been talking with him for the last year I reckon, so the fact it's got to this stage and he's still not sure screams volumes to me. Spurs will probably come calling again in the summer, he will be added to the defectors list and we can use the £30m to extend longs contract until 2049

Also, just as a bit of perspective, I guess it shows spending £££££££ doesn't equal anything - Villa spent £130m in the summer, people fairly confident that they'd be pushing for mid-table. But like Fulham the previous year, it was a case of spending too much at once on too many players. (and maybe the wrong sorts). They may still stay up, but they'll be struggling till the death and they have spent a mini fortune.

Villa were shockingly bad, I was so worried when we didn't get the 3 or 4 our performance deserved on that first half. We really should have had that game done, dusted and finished after about 40 mins. Not our day in front of goal, but Villa were so dire it didn't really matter. 34 points, 12th in the league, 10 pts clear inc. GD - it will take something out of this universe for us to be worrying about that end now.

I thought he did alright when he came on. Let's be honest, he did everything to score....just someone on the line. Just typical how his luck is going. An awesome cross field though to free Armstrong, that was really good.

He's come on leaps and bounds over the last 18 months. A very talented English PL player now, will be attracting the attention of a lot around us. His appearances count at his age is utterly remarkable.

It will be extraordinarily unlikely given where we are now and who we have to play, but it doesn't take much to be sucked in out of no where. There are still some weaknesses in t his squad and it doesn't' take more than a couple of results to be sucked back into a rut, but if we're honest I think we have enough to get the 6 points need over the next 4 months. If we don't, then I don't think we'll be worrying about keeping Ralph....

Good touch, good awareness of those around him, good passing. A neat and tidy player really, unlucky with that deflected shot too - Reina was beaten all ends up with that!

It's a tricky one. Home games these days are a bit of a hostile environment, because it's been consistently 4 years of utter, utter, utter dross - with the odd random win sprinkled in there somewhere. It's impossible for this not to have influenced the fans. I still go, but there are 6 people I was with around me who no longer attend - people below me no longer attend. There's only so much money you can keep shelling out if you're getting the most substandard product, the prices haven't gone down in that time either. There is an element of apathy I feel - just an acceptance of our fate, I mean what can we do? We can't influence Kat or Gao, they've got their toy and they can just wave at us from up high whilst we hold banners up - but it would probably just create even more hostile environment for very little return. But the crux is that Gao needs to go before we can become a united club again, how that happens....no idea.

I think we've lost Boufal for a bit, Redmond is obviously out too. Stephens was heavily limping quite a bit I noticed, and so was Long at some stages - but everyone else seemed ok. But we don't have a deep squad with enough quality, so we will be hit by injuries and they will hit our form. This is why January shouldn't have been ignored as it was. Oh sorry, we did buy someone! But we had to let someone go first....

We're at home, so we probably won't win. No idea why I'm going, but i will be there.

At the end of the day we're a side with a few decent players in it, not amazing players, just decent players. We still have huge gaps in quality throughout the side and it will keep getting exposed season upon season, unless we address it. The club rested on their hands in January ‘’Oh a good run, it means we’re fine’’ – worryingly the professionals running our club didn’t have the foresight to see that this was just a run, we still had the same fundamental core issues! I think this is Boufals last season here – another expensive flop. Not fit for this level I don’t think, flatters 90% of the time. Talented, yes, but not suited for us or this league. Reminds me of Adal Tarrabat Our home form is utterly disgusting though, something needs to be done about that. And I don't think playing Vestagaard is a decent fix for that. Horrific football player.

He's an interesting player is Long. If you had someone of his running/nuisance and added finishing ability to the mix, you'd have a top level world class forward. As it stands, he's quick...he causes problems, but you wouldn't want him as your sole goal source....as he can't and won't ever really score many goals. He is a pretty shocking finisher to be honest, like one of the worst we've had, but you can't fault his work rate.

Andy Durham gets what he wants every time, he's a troll! He's just there to wind up fans, get them texting/phoning in to have a debate. It's all part of his game.

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Conceding three goals wherever is going to mean a defeat most of the time! Just need more players who can score goals, Redmond needs more this year and we need the same from midfield.

How annoying. Typical plucky underdog performance, just not enough quality unfortunately. That's the true reality

I think everyone felt it would allow clubs to focus on the games, once the season had started. But the reality is that unless all the other top leagues come into line, it's pointless. And seeing as the top leagues didn't come in line, it doesn't surprise me that we'll be back to the normal summer window.

JWP has been really lucky with injuries to be fair over the course of his career, but that looked a bad one just by the reactions. Could be a long road back, it's incredibly frustrating given he's just in the best spell for us as well. What a knock back for everyone! Our team will feel different without him, he's been the driving force these last few months. He was certainly on course for a euros place I reckon! Sucks.

It's numbers though, what are we left with? I didn't really class him as 4th choice, easily above Vestergaard for me anyway. We needed to strengthen defense this window, Ralph said as much. All we've done is flaming weakening it in experience and numbers. I'm bemused by it all really.