S-Clarke

That's what happens when you sell off the two defensive linchpins and fail to replace them when required. How we reinvested (or tried to) the VVD fee should be a sackable offence. That money will now drift into the club to help cover the cost of wages due to our demise, so it won't be seen on the first team.

Not sure Gallagher and Reed have really pulled up any trees to be honest. We wouldn't achieve a great deal with those down the spine. Targett would probably do OK though, but let's remember he's in a very confident team with a very, very good player in front of him (Sessengon)

We'll probably end up winning this. And then lose to Bournemouth.

Mid-table at absolute best. That midfield would get bullied off the pitch.

People need to stop playing the Rodriguez line, there are lots of things you can hit the club with but selling Rodriguez isn't one of them. The fact he's down at the bottom with WBA and with only 5 goals to his name shows we pulled off a mini-miracle getting more than £10m for him.

The unfortunate state of affairs mean that the club will see this as a great opportunity to fill us with the academy/Southampton way malarkey, so don't expect big investment into any sort of proven and experienced NPC or top quality (i.e Wolves) as it will block the 'pathway'. We'll just see the likes of Gallagher, Sims, Stephens, Reed, Targett, Hesketh, Bedranek, McQueen etc play bigger roles. That's not a disservice to those guys as they're not bad at that level (not amazing though), but it's still quite a distance away from the last NPC team we had with Cork, Morgan, Lallana, Lambo, Fonte etc down the spine.

I will now be ignoring any of the post-match bilge that filters out of our self-congratulting club. Bring on the summer.

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.