Baird of the land

Last chance saloon really. Pity the team seem to be sleep walking their way to relegation. Would love to see us to go for it and get a lead and grind it out but don't have any confidence they will.

I think if you get the right manager in and play to his strengths he will.

Of established managers maybe Moyes for me. Think West Ham will get rid even though he'll keep them up.

To me that's the frustrating thing. It was obvious Mara is more suited to this game (City) than he was to (west Ham) away. Play Onachu against West Ham and Mara here.

First half. I can see the plan. Play a false nine and cling to dear life. i don't like it but If Sulemana wasn't poor it might have paid off. Spending 22M on him rather than recalling tella looking crazier by the minute. Had to at least make the keeper save the one on one(rather than tackling himself) & needs to cross the ball with his left foot rather than pass it out (just before they break and score the opener). As for the goal. Bednarek standling deeper than anyone while marking no one (just poor). ABK's marking of Haaland wasn't good but no clue why Bedanrek hands him over rather than stick like glue to haaland himself. No changes at Half-time confuses me completely too. The plan failed, they scored. Get Mara and djenepo on at HT.(the players who have actually scored against city this season). Just rolling on as if they hadn't scored is nuts.

Honestly even if we beat them they've probably got enough where we struggle to catch them.

Fair play to Bournemouth they are really showing fighting spirit.

Slow-youn-essi again. A winger as a isolated striker too. It just screams we're petrified don't beat us 9-0. Personally i find it disappointing we haven't gone with players who did well last time we beat City(Djenepo and Mara) under jones.

Need either a big upset against City or a much better set of results at full time. Ideally both

I don't see the logic in starting tall paul a game where where we probably aren't going to have much of the ball. Orsic has done nothing on any of his outings to suggest their a premier league player there.

We've zero indication we can win 4 of 4 games (against the likes of palace, Fulham, forest and bournemouth). Even 3 out of 4 seems rather too miraculous given our record this season and current abject levels of play.

Wotte are you on about. Wotte had a 22.2% win ratio whereas Poorvliet had a 25% one.

Concerning how deluded the team os. Hearing jwp talk about how we were by far the better team. Having more possession by passing safely isn't being better. Barring onachu late chance I never felt we seriously threatened them in the 2nd for all our pedestrian possession.

Looking at tonight's fixtures i feel this is the moment we'll start looking cut adrift.

Bazanu KWP Bednarek Salisu(otherwise DCC) Perraud JWP Alcaraz Lavia Walcott Adams (otherwise Mara) Djenepo As much as i want to see Onachu given a proper go, Man City isn't the game for that. However i've got the sinking this will be the one he's thrown into rather a more suitable game.

What a bunch of pathetic cowards. Deserve to be relegated I'd forgive them for losing if they actually attempted to win.

What a depressing lineup. No attacking drive in a must win game. Reminds of games like Leeds/Forest where we've just crawled into our shells an lost. Hope i'm wrong. Is ramadan a factor in sulemena benching? Any news on why Adams is missing?

I don't really see a draw tomorrow as enough (unless we're going to do something crazy like beat Arsenal or City)

I love international football. Not an england fan, so i too couldn't care less about england. Northern Ireland swatting aside San Marino made my evening though.

Just seen it and struggling to see how it is really different from Fernandes shoving the lineman in the back. Was expecting a di canio moment.

Haven't seen it yet. Was it worse than what Fernandes did a little while back and got off scot free?

Ahh Danny Ings, well there goes the clean sheet.

We're doing just enough to not be totally cut adrift but we're probably 3 points(plus 1 for Goal Difference) adrift currently, once you factor in team's games in hand. We're still going to need something special. If we lose to West Ham next you'd have to think it's done but then again this team could bizarrely turn up against City i suppose.

Think the commentators said taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs.

I can see what selles was trying to do with his lineup. A compact midfield, the problem wasn't for me S.Armstrong who was ok, it was Moi who was shockingly bad. The use of Sulemana as an impact sub was decent too. Saints have too often been reulctant to do that, last season i was bemused why we barely used Tella in that manner.