Lighthouse

Much like Osvaldo, I feel opposed to voting for Boufal because he’s a helmet. Think I’ll vote for Lemina.

Is it time for another new account already Glasgow?

Not played in the PL for a few years though, might be worth a punt.

Butland wont be coming here, no point discussing that one. McC will be first choice next season and Butland wont be looking to play second fiddle. Mawson seems more like an Everton or Spurs signing to me.

City have already got their goals scored record and any sort of win will give them 100 (like any of their players really care about that more than not getting injured for the WC) If they did go 2 goals ahead, they will probably coast along in 3rd gear for the rest of the game and Swansea wont be scoring 8 any time soon.

Haven't seen enough of him to really comment, so I'd hope our scouts do their homework. I'd like to think there are better options out there and that we've been tracking a few targets in the Lovren/Toby/Virgil mould.

You'd hope not. TBH it's a bit embarassing that we're in this position and will likely survive on goal difference alone. If I was going I'd give them a round of applause for getting there in the end and hope a few players and staff go away and have a long hard think over the summer.

All we need to do is sack Hughes and bring back MoPe. He will have us playing nice, safe, boring, conservative football and deliver the dull 2-0 defeat we need.

I think we'd all sleep a little easier if Chelsea beat Udders and the latter had to get a result against Arsenal (in Wenger's final game) to finish above us. Aside from that, I would sh*t my pants laughing if Chelsea and Spurs won, then both overtook Liverpool on the final day. I think they would have to lose at home to Brighton though, so massively unlikely. Call me overly optimistic but... I think Spurs and Arsenal could both be realistic targets next season. We all saw what happened with Moyes at United a few years ago and Arsenal are only 6 points above a nothing to special Burnley team. Spurs, should the likes of Kane, Eriksson, Alli and Poch all start pushing for moves, could return to the good old days of Sherwood/Jol/Ramos hilarity.

That was Austin.

Part of the reason we are in this mess is that players like Long are considered acceptable. Running hard and chasing are the attributes of an average Championship striker. In terms of actual attacking ability he is woefully inadequate and has scored 5 goals in 2 years. I would hope for any decent striker to score 10 goals a season, if they remain fit. Be they big powerhouses like Lambert and Pellè, in the box poachers liked Austin and Gabbi or hard working runners like Long.

How’s this for trivia; if we win and Burnley lose, we will finish closer (by GD) to 7th than we did in 8th last year.

Boufal, Carrillo, Davis, Forster and Long can move on IMO. I think there is still something in Tadic and Gabbi worth keeping. Need a striker, AM, RB and GK

Lundekvam, Griffit, Chaplow, Channon and of course Le Tiss.

Nothing against either of them TBH and certainly don’t feel like gloating, given we know their pain all too well. Hughes was sacked their for a reason and I’m sure Stoke know their own team a lot better than we do. It’s like all the Leicester fans saying ‘serves you right for sacking Puel’. Well, they look pretty comfortable in 9th, they should be pretty happy with him, right? Good luck to both of them next season (assuming we don’t fall for that 10 goal swing on Sunday).

I think Reed's ego can live without being called that, TBH.

Not to mention Everton twice when they were managed by Unsworth or had nothing to play for. Spurs were without Eriksson when they came to St Mary’s. United, Arsenal and Chelsea were all well below standard in both games against us. For the Watford goal we deserve no sympathy. We were 2-0 and should have had it in the bag easily but threw it away. We sat back, invited pressure, let them score, didn’t pose a threat ourselves and at the end didn’t stop the cross coming and left Doucouré very badly marked. The fact that the final touch game off his hand is just a very small factor in a game we should have won comfortably.

More like.... Snatch a last minute equaliser at Swansea. Everyone goes nuts but we know deep down it probably wont be enough. Last day we take an early lead and everyone gets their hopes up but City soon equalise. Despite this, we're still safe until the hour mark, when City take a 2-1 and almost simultaneously Swansea and West Brom take the lead. Swansea then let it slip and go 2-1 down with 10 minutes left whilst West Brom win comfortably and miraculously stay up on GD.

Never never got that obsession either. Yes I'm sure it must have hurt to lose a semi-final right at the death but to still be going on about it 3 decades later is a bit sad and weird.

They were locked in a battle with their bitter rivals for the final Champions League place. I'd say that's about as much as Everton have had to play for in over 30 years.

[video=youtube;iXJYBM-9Lrc] Wasn't there but remember listening to the commentary on 5 live, driving through Northern Belgium.

Good news, I've got Tosun in my fantasy team as captain and sacrificed 4 points to get Mawson in too, so they're both going to have a stinker this game week.

It was nuts to appoint him in the first place, well out of his depth.

I have no idea what that is referring to.