S-Clarke

He personally moved way, way, way too soon. I'm sure even he can see that now. But 100k p/w and £32m our way, there wasn't really a doubt.

Have you forgotten about Gabbiadini? I think Jay will be off, but we'll be left with Austin, Shane, Gabba and Gallagher. More than enough.

Your expectations are seriously skewed. You're supporting the wrong club if you think we should be doing what we did last year consistently. Most level headed fans realise that last season was amazing - more of a freak than not.....obviously, we can still fight for it every season, but it's wrong to believe that's where we need to be aiming every year as a 'minimum'. You're going to be seriously fed up if your expectations are that high.

What is it with Marco Silva and people on this forum? Is it because he looks hip and young? To be fair, he's had a great impact at Hull...but you're suggesting we ditch our manager, who is only starting to get his idea's into this team, in place of a manger who has done well for just 6 months. Knee-jerk in both ways.

I can hardly remember last week, let alone that far back! He was a bit in and out of the team that year though if I remember, but this seems to be the first time he's holding a position and actually seems like one of the fixed names on the team sheet for the first time ever.

I thought we generally played well last night, first half we started the game really well. Could have been a goal or two up before they scored theirs, but I think after the game went on and we hadn't got the goal, we sort of lost a bit of belief and retreated back a bit. We have a knack of scoring on HT though, which is a great moment to score. Allowed us to come out in the 2nd half and just carry on where we ended the half, it was turning into a bit of 'one of those night's, as we had several guilt edged chances that we should have put to bed before we did. We should have had at least one penalty, i don't understand anyone who doesn't think that was a pen. It was close to him, fair enough, but there was a genuine movement of his arm away from his body to flick the ball away - clear as day as a handball. We kept plugging away and Redmond had a great 2nd half, for the 2nd goal he did exactly what I've been crying out for him to do - run and commit players, he's a real, real threat when he does that. Then we cut them open again with what I thought was a great third goal, and JWP is thriving in this position. Onto JWP, I think Claude has found his best place. Not a proper central midfielder, but playing on the inside right of an attacking 3. Allows him to get involved in attacks, less reliance on him being physical in the middle, and it also means he can use his right peg to pop the ball in from the right channel. It's definitely a position which gets the best out of him and I much prefer him there than as a set central midfielder. He's definitely a player who has evolved over the season and credit to Claude for being the first manager who seems to have found his best role. Long will obviously get grief for missing the chances, but he still gets himself into those positions and still makes the runs. He has been a tad unlucky, but as long as he keeps making the moves he is then the goals will come. On to Saturday, let's finish the season as well as we can.

I don't see how anyone can be in any sort of 'out' camp. He's had months, not even a full season. I think it's fair for people to voice their opinions and concerns over things (not everything is rosy, and he could do things better), but for anyone to say he has to go it's just the sad way of thinking of the modern football fan. When Markus first came here, he said he believed we were a top 10 premier league club and he wanted to get us there. That seemed like a pipe dream then, but that's exactly where we are right now. We're a middle of the table/Top10 club and given the amount of games we've had to cope with this year, I think we're doing just about right in the league. I know it's a common excuse, but there is no doubt in my mind that Thursday EL games impacted our first half of the season, clubs of similar size have had the same problem (Even Liverpool struggled last year with EL football). Given the injuries we've had this year, the obscene amount of games and fixture pile ups, to have reached a Cup Final and be sitting in the Top 10 of the PL is actually a pretty good effort. I think we'll finish around 9th-10th on 48ish points, which will be a slight drop...but not as alarming as you'd think coming on here. Next season we can go again without the extra EL games and Sunday matches, I think we'll see a different picture.

Stephens has done fine, I see no reason to throw Caceres in unless there is an injury or suspension. Jack is the 'future', so we might as well blood him now as opposed to giving opportunities to someone who may not be here next year. We will sign some CB's in the summer, I'm sure, but Jack hasn't done himself any harm over the last couple of months.

They don't have a great deal of depth, but that front 3 Zaha, Townsend, Benteke will cause teams problems. They are packed full of pace and if we play like we did in the 2nd half of the 2nd half on Saturday, then they will have a field day. From our side, I want to see Redmond stretching the play and running at them - just like Bournemouth players did at the weekend. I love watching Gray at Leicester and he has so many similar attributes to Redmond, but Gray doesn't play with any fear or pre-defined roles - he just attacks teams, and it works. It's exactly how Mane played for us last year, I don't remember him having a set position week in week out, he would just run at teams and commit them in the final third from either side.

To be fair, the last two points were only possible because of last season. We didn't earn those based on this season.

Tomkins got injured yesterday, Dann came onto replace him and then got injured too (both bad injuries tbf) Delaney came on to replace Dann.

Club can't win. It's too quiet, so they invest. Now it's too noisy. I don't think it is too loud, at least it's audible now. The fact it didn't use to be audible caused more disgruntlement among the people around me than it does now.

These sort of players need a run in the side, but I don't think we have a strong enough 'centre' to deploy him, tadic and redmond from the start.

I don't think anyone has really taken to him, the fan base as a whole is pretty 'meh' about him. He doesn't even have a song...!!! Still don't think he's a bad guy though, has the right idea's, but hands have been tied in more than one way this year. We've gone backwards though, no denying that.

Lucky 2nd half, plenty of luck on our side! First half was ours, 2nd was theirs. First half was much of what we've seen this year though, very little movement, creativity or sharpness in the final third. All played in front of Bournemouth and through the middle, although we were on top. 2nd half we completely lost our way, tactically we were all over the shop for 45 mins. Completely lost control of midfield, the defense was like keystone cops. This has been such a non-event of a season really (league wise), but we were due one. Not much more to add really.

He only joined WBA a few weeks ago for like £15m Don't particularly rate him, he's just another midfielder in the same ilk as our others.

People seriously read way too much into what he predicts. It really means very little.

The club seemingly can't win with the tannoy system. Up until this season it was pointless, you couldn't hear interviews on pitch, score announcements. This was a major gripe for quite a few people and the club did listen to this, and bar some tweaking in the early part of the season (where it was seriously loud...)! they have got the balance right now. I don't think it's too loud, and it's certainly not too quiet anymore. It's the right balance. I think the club should be applauded for actually listening to our concerns on that and improving it, rather than using the improvement as a stick to bash them with!

The price of Sky is just ridiculous, it's unjustifiable and people need to boycott it as they have a monopoly and it's wrong. Same with BT Sport if you don't have BT Broadband, heck even their sales pitch of it being free if you had broadband has now gone....so everyone has to pay for it. I used to pay £90 odd per month for Sky and I don't know why I did, i must have been mental. Get yourself a freesat box, an Android box and do away with your subscriptions. There's more content available for free than there is on sky.

If people want to stream PL games, they will always be there. Ultimate Mania/Sports Mania have been disconnected by their 'hosts' numerous times, but they are setup with a new host in a matter of minutes. And as is mentioned, as long as you are behind a VPN then there is very little an ISP can do. (well, they could block VPN's or throttle traffic - but this will hit everyone, not just streamers - so not exactly fair) Also the sources and hosting locations for Sports Mania/Ultimate mania are all over the world, so don't fall under UK law. The setups for streaming is so advanced now, it's a far cry from finding a link on a popup ridden site - so it's going to be near on impossible to close it out. They tried with pirate bay and torrent sites, that never went away.

Yeah Pontus is class, seen a few Leeds game this year and he stands out like a Virgil in that league - just walks it. They did really well to get him, surprised Leeds were able to attract someone of his ability..!

Liverpool look disgusting tonight. Not sure why anyone thinks Lucas can play at CB, mental.

Who is a better option as opposed to Redmond? He was terrific yesterday and has been pretty good for us all year. He offers us real pace which we don't really have elsewhere.

His movement is on a different planet. Defenders are going to have to be wide awake when he's around. He's not obviously quick in terms of his all round game, but his little darts and moves are done quickly. He seems to have that instinct as well. Both goals at Sunderland, both goals yesterday (and the third..) were from instinct. Didn't have time to think about it, just hit it.

Best team lost, no real debate really. I watched some of the highlights and Neville mentioned it perfectly, Utd won it in the 'moments'. They weren't in that game for large parts and didn't put us under nearly as much pressure as I thought they would have. We scored 3 good goals, hit the bar, had one cleared off the line, missed a couple of balls rolling across the line.....I cannot remember too many moments Utd had apart from their goals. You need luck in games like yesterday, we didn't have any.