S-Clarke

It's too simplistic a view to think a striker will fix everything. As long as we continue to play in front of teams at a snails pace then nothing will ever happen. ever. Pace is so important in the modern game, not just the 'atribute' of a player...but the speed the game is played at, the quickness of the passsing. We will not achieve a thing in this league if we continue to play at the pedestrian pace and in front of teams.

Massive questions tonight for me. Just a load of unimaginative, sleep indulging dross. This was a poor Norwich side without a load of their key players and we just played in front of them, we didn't try to penetrate, stretch it. What do these guys coach? What are we trying to achieve in terms of a style? Boring the pants off everyone? Death by football is pretty apt. right now. I usually look forward to games but I'm starting to feel it's just one big chore and I don't pay £600 odd quid for that.

Where does it say 9m? All I can see is a supposed ITK claiming on the WHU forum that he will sign. Quite clearly he's after one last big pay day, says a lot that WHU are the only club to offer that. Bunch of loons in charge of that place.

An absolute load of garbage. Should be giving out refunds for that horrendous load of ****.

Kone? Are you having a flaming giraffe? He is absolute garbage, not even mid level let alone top!

Reading that first post is incredible. So much of that optimism from that pre-season was misplaced. The fears of many came true when we were just over ran in most games, I think that season destroyed the careers of some of our promising young players. It was too much for them to all come into at once.

JWP is an odd one, if you look at him exclusively you see someone who can control, pass, move the ball. He receives it well on both feet and is always available for a pass etc, but he just doesn't put his mark on games at all. I honestly stand by what I've always thought, the tools are there technically...it's just physically hes behind. He's still not an old player by any means and he could still well bulk up a bit. I think he'd be perfect in a Spanish league or a league where it's less physical and more slow/passing. There's definitely talent there and you wouldn't have had 4 different managers picking him if there wasn't, he just needs to start taking games by the scruff of it's neck and dominating. Just worry that he doesn't have the physical attributes to be able to do that in this league.

We're never going to be able to afford a player who can take us to a new level instantly. That would be like ourselves going out and buying Mane from another PL club for 38m. We can't do that, we're not big enough to do that and I'm ok with that. If we can get these promising younger players and unearth their potential, then for a club of our size, it's a no brainer.

Romeu has improved through playing time, not coaching. He was good when called upon last year but didn't get a run in the side. Now he's had a run in the side you can see his ability. Exactly the same will be said of Hojbjerg if he starts playing most weeks.

I read that as a loan which becomes perm after a set amount of games, bit more secure than the Toby one that's for sure! This kid has been highly rated, so we'll have to see. Don't know a great deal about him to be honest, but he isn't an out and out striker I know that much.

Holy ****, Gardos lives!

I think he wanted a bite, so well done on that.

To be fair if we play like that for the rest of the seasons we'll probably get lots of 0-0's and 0-1's. Death by football.

Interesting possibilities and important moments. etc. I'm bored out of my skin watching this team, absolutely bored to ****.

Surely the china bubble will burst soon? What they are offering players - and even flaming refrees - is obscene. It's just a ball on some grass for Christ sake!

Really good display from us, energetic and pressing high and playing with real intent. Redmond should have been more clinical but he was also a tad unlucky. Tactically we were spot on, closing the channels and restricting liverpool any space. People will say Liverpool were poor, but we really didn't allow them an opportunity to do anything. Obviously the disappointment is that it's only 1-0, but we go to Anfield with a goal and an advantage. Much more than many expected.

a £13m bargain then.

So Morgan isn't signing for WBA at the bargain price of £13m then? Thought as much.

Didn't he get another injury? I was sure he had a setback of sorts.

Not sure why Redmond keeps being hung out as the scapegoat here. He's a good player and has bags of potential, not even worth writing him off.

Saints and Villa both feature on Steven Davis's CV. ooooh errr..

Great game at Bournemouth, can't help but think it papers of the cracks for Arsenal though. Another season another failure for them.

OG for Glasgow there.

1/10

It's clearly a bit screwed, but it's always the same. I personally think this will be used as a convenient excuse for us to use, but we rotated the hell out of the squad to try and avoid this. I think it's bitten us on our arse as we're clearly not as fresh/fit as we should be because our players don't play every week. WBA/Spurs for example rotated their squad a little, not too much, and won both of the games. Their wins were born out of a cohesive team unit after playing together for a decent period of time. First team every week from now on should be: Forster Cedric - Fonte - Virgil - Bertrand Romeu Hojbjerg Clasie Tadic Remond Jay Couple of positions up for debate - Clasie. If we could replace him with a Sigurdsson type player - perfect. Jay - is he right for a lone role? I don't think he is personally, he's better playing support to a 'big man'.