S-Clarke

If we continue to play as we are, then we haven't got a hope. This group of games we just waved goodbye to. I think we'd looked at this group of 4 as a chance. Burnley, Stoke, Newcastle, West Ham. 2 points, no wins. Two 3-0 defeats on the bounce to crap such as West Ham and Newcastle, so forgive me if I'm not dancing on the rooftops right now.

Do one Hoedt.

Luckily we have Arsenal and Chelsea up next. It'll take a brave man to see us as anything other than relegation fodder now.

Another pointless performance from Redmond.

I'd stick Valery there tbh. **** it, I'd even prefer to see Yoshida.

but about 100 times worse. This is where we'll need to see Gao's big pockets. Not that we will.

We waited too long with MP. Every single thing wrong with us at this moment in time lies with the people in charge of this club, they've dragged us down with their pompus self-believing hype.

Don't start on that one. It isn't the fans fault.

We also should have correctly replaced Fonte last January and in the summer. Hoedt is not good enough. The recruitment over the last 24 months has been a sackable offence. Wilson needs to waddle off to scotland.

Baffles me as to why there is talk of Top 4 clubs all over him. Bog average, showed up massivley now the CB's are weaker.

I find it hard to critisise Jack, it's not his fault he's not quite at the level required. The blame lies with the club. Two shambolic January windows whereby we sold our best two CB's and forgot to replace.

Tadic, Redmond, Cedric, Bertrand, Gabbiadini, Hoedt. Fine every single one of them. They're not interested. Special note to Cedric who I hope to never see play for us again.

He's been rubbish, along with the rest of the dutch team.

The 'takeover' makes less sense by the day.

He's always flattered to deceive. Never seen anything from him that suggests he's a CL level player. Decent for us, but not a top player by any means.

What an odd thing for him to say. You could understand if it was a pre-match interview before they played us, but they're in a direct battle with us. If it's not us that goes, it'll be them. I bet their fans are happy!

Lol. It's only because he scored a goal, for some reason that warrants auto inculsion in Garth's team, even if the rest of the game has been ****.

Well, they kinda 'got' Caulker from us, so stranger things have happened.

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I don't think he really knew what he ever wanted to achieve. I didn't ever understand the style or the tactics he was trying to put across, I don't think the players did either. He as a decent bloke I'm sure, but he was so , so, so out of his depth at this level.

Someone with a bit of pace for sure, but someone with a bit of a physical stature. Not easy to find, but they are out there. Ammadu at Lillie or Issa Diop at Toulouse are two that fit that mould.

It's just about getting up high, playing in the opposition half and offering support to whoever is playing, this two-up front, 1 up front stuff is all a myth. If you look at formations as being set in stone, then we played 1 up front for years with Lambert, Pelle etc. The fact is we got the likes of Rodriguez, Lallana, Puncheon, Ox, Tadic, Mane close to them and had the midfield to support it. Whatever happens in the remaining 9 (or 10) games doesn't hide away from the fact that we need to re-address the spine of this team in the summer. We need a dominant and physical centre back, a dominant and powerful CM (which will allow this area of the team to push up without being too exposed) and proper pace and unpredictability in the final third.

I think alot of the 'negative' feeling from pundits over our run-in is because of the amount of away's we have, no neccearilly who we play. We've been **** at home for 18 months, marginally better away. So away games to teams bobbing around in mid-table nothingness is quite a decent run-in for me. At home games against a City and Chelsea team who will have zilch to play for by the time those games come round (maybe). Out of the 'top sides' I think I'd rather have Chelsea and Arsenal in the run-in rather than Utd, Liverpool, Spurs etc. My optimisim has been lifted the moment MP was shown the door. This isn't based on yesterdays win, as we were dog ****e for 60% of that game. But there are certainly reasons to be positive.

I've noticed his new role seems to be carrying around the clipboard for Stuart Pearce (going by their warm 'break'). Hope he doesn't break his thumb.

Byram, Obiang and Reid are season-enders aren't they? I'm 99% sure Reid is...