S-Clarke

Tadic slows us down, I'd play Long in his place and play him wide off of Carillo. It's the best we're going to get, then if we can get ourselves out of the **** we can fix it in the summer. But you are right, we need to move the ball quicker. We seem desperate to just have a high passing count, which must have been very high today. Not that it really matters when probably 60% of those passes are between DM, CB's and GK. There's a lot of dross in this league, of which we are included, so that and the fact we have a few away games against 'said' dross is a slim glimmer I will try to cling to.

Nothing will be confirmed until the final day. We're quite lucky that we're at home to City. Doddle.

The other plus for me is that we're Away a lot, there's no advantage to us playing at home. We're much better away, well slightly less **** is a better way of putting it. Slim positives to cling to.

To play that way you need pace. We don't have pace. That's why we go backwards and sideways. A front 3 of Tadic, JWP and Carillo is as slow as you'll get. Combine that with a midfield with Romeu and Hoj. Slow, pedestrian, ponderous football. Swansea have pace with the two Ayews (Jordan in particular in the Liverpool game). It's not rocket science and the club needed to fix it in January, but they didn't as they're incompetent.

Hopefully they force him out.

What a waste of my afternoon. This team looks dead, devoid of life, spark, creativity, energy, desire. Just nothing. A bunch of players passing the ball between each other and offering nothing else. The makeup of the side has been wrong for 2 seasons, I feel like a broken record saying it. Absolutely no pace in the midfield or attack, it's impossible to cause anyone problems without pace in this day and age. I don't know what our recruitment team are thinking. I wanted to see fight and some life from us, but we were dead rubber today. Truly horrific. Easiest game for Liverpool, ever. As deflated as I've been all year at this moment in time. Heads should roll at the club in all levels for the catastrophic 12 months we've bad, mismanagement at its finest.

We're not where we are because we lost to Liverpool, we're where we are because we haven't beaten Brighton, Huddersfield, Stoke, Palace, Burnley, Leicester. The bloke should have gone in Dec, but as long as the club keep making money from fancy ingame adverts, then everything is fine I'd have thought.

It's only a cut to his knee apparently, nothing major.

We don't need another central midfielder.

Really got to win this today I think. Swansea/Borunemouth have managed to beat the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool in recent weeks, which has turned around both fo their seasons. We cannot have a 'brave' defeat today. Minimum a draw, win is needed though. Defeat disasterous.

Not an awful set of results.

He came from Bury's acadamy, he was with us for a short period in L1 on a loan deal from Oldham. Don't think he's been with us apart from that.

And so is the young hotshot Matt Mills.... and Dexter Blackstock! Man I feel old.

Of course....Drew Surman as well for Bmouth. And Callum Chambers..... that must be it?

Yeah, Sims came on right at the end in the 2-2 v Watford. I'd go... Sims McQueen Targett Ward-Prowse Shaw Lallana Theo Walcott Alex Chamberlain Nathan Dyer Martin Craine (he's in Huddersfields Squad, but loaned out atm I think) Obafemi Probably missing a couple of obvious ones...

Best we could have got in the Championship, good player. Not up to it at PL level though, not everyone can make the step up. Didn't his one goal come against Arsenal in the 6-1..?

Not sure what point you're making. Leeds replaced Christensen with Paul Heckingbottom, they're not happy about that in the slighest. And 'high calibure' for Bradford isn't what you'd class as high calbire for us.

Nah, they had a proper second string side out. Surprised it took Huddersfield so long to kill them off!

Yeah that would be a bonus, hard to see us not starting the game in the bottom 3 though. Stoke, Hudders, Swansea all look good for a win to me. Saturdays results will end up closing the gap to the rest again, and will probably cut West Brom at least 7 points adrift.

A bit of a **** head.

He was announced as a signing though, 250k I think. Plymouth lad, one of our first signings under the Liebherr era. He certainly isn't one of our own.

You know full well that this won't be a break, it will be an oppertunity for clubs to mop up on Asian and overseas revenue from expensive 'tours'.

This is why I thought the Newcastle game was an absolute must for them, they've pulled themselves right back into the mire. And now they've lost their best player, and they've also lost Sakho (the winger). Problems.

They're only 4 points better off than us. Too tight for anyone to be safe.

This is the sort of performance that see's a manager sacked. He'll be gone shortly I'd have thought.