Baird of the land

Not even trying against man city reserves maybe not quite as embarrassing as 9-0 to Leicester but it is still pretty embarassing.

Don’t play 1-8-2 and sit in your own box for 45 minutes.

Thought Valery has been okish. He’s not helped by jwp refusing to ever get close to his man let alone mark him.

How’s he supposed to score(other than in his own net) when Ralph only wants man city to have the ball.

It’s not slow. They deliberately make sure they are never near the men they are meant to be marking.

Warming to the notion of sacking Ralph. Setting out a team with the objective of losing really is pathetic. Once again from a corner we let them pass the ball to the position they ideally want to cross from with no pressure.

For me it’s the fact they had 3 players on the right and hojberg was the only guy trying to mark his man.

Why won’t our players stay with their men when they haven’t got the ball!!!!!!!! The ball goes away and they wander back towards the box and suddenly man city give the ball back to the player they used to be marking.

To me it’s just the basics of not leaving their players all the time in the world on 5he edge of the box to pick out the perfect cross. They haven’t unlocked us by great play it’s our midfield stupidity

Terrible by jwp. Fortunately McCarthy came to the rescue Embarassing from corner. Just letting them pass to edge of the box with everyone switched off.

Why did we stand miles off Mahrez there. Lucky escape

We’ve got a throw in. Get in

The fiends have spotted we aren’t playing a left back!

What a depressing lineup. Who’s playing left back? Why bring vokins but not play him Who’s playing on the other wing. What’s happened to obafemi?

Probably hojberg then.

Yeah definite no to having broken wanyama back. I don't even think a defensive mid is the prime priority other areas of concern.

I'd opt for something like a 4-4-1-1 Mccarthy (It's league cup and he should have been ahead of Gunn based on form anyway) Stephens (Tough i like Valery as a wingback but after an awful game and in a back four maybe stephens, but can't say i'm enthusiastic about the prospect) Vokins (With one left back who's suspended it's the perfect time to see if vokins can offer anything Danso (Deserves a game in his preferred position and the others hardly showered themselves in glory) Yoshida (Experience, had to pick one of him or bednarek) Boufal (Played ok this season, so might as well try and push their fullbacks back) Hojberg (Not many options, still probably need his energy) Romeu (Been our best player this season imo) Redmond (Our most talented player) Armstrong (Deserves a shot at a game not a 2 minute cameo) Obafemi (He's got pace, he's not shane long) Subs Lewis, Valery, Bednarek, Slattery, JWP, Ings, Adams

I'm sure that would help the team immensely as they try and pick themselves up from Friday.

We seem to be moving away from it being a contact sport. Mane literally threw himself to the ground again after brushlike contact.

At least before this weekend you could at least say there was a consistency to the VAR calls. Everton game was a mess from this regard though.

Because i’d like Us to play a left back and Bertrand is suspended. We need to see what vokins can offer, wed is a free hit. Valery had an instant impact last season when he had to be thrown in because of circumstance.

Thought he was very good in the wolves game but very poor last night. Last night though i’m Not sure any of our players looked like footballers let alone league one ones. In the 532 i’d Persevere with Valery though in a back i’d Probably opt for Cedric. Certainly shouldn’t be loaned out or given up on.

Two more Carrillo’s incoming then. That’ll put us in great position financially next summer.

Spending money in January that we don’t have seems nutty to me. Even bigger problems if we went down.

So Gunn reserves all his saves for impressing Ralph in train8ng and has none left for match day.