Plastic

Oh Jesus Christ - must be 20 missed chances for mane today

Yep

Oooh offside but good play & strike Davis.

Tough one tbf

Looked nasty

COYR

Glad Gomes isn't our keeper

Oh **** off

Dude looks great

Oh clasie

Lol. Don't remind me about that bloody Liverpool game.

Good try from mane. Greedy but fair enough

Sorry! Tbf I didn't see say which team scored

Great great goal. Very impressive

Scrappy start. Targett doing ok so far.

Well I never. Incredible.

Rodgers would actually be hilarious. I told all my Liverpool supporting friends that I didn't hate Liverpool, just that **** Rodgers. The stick I would get if he became our manager would be off the charts!

Winner I played Lego with my kids and followed the carnage on here. Agreed.

Perhaps true. But I was happy to see an academy product score. It justified the whole academy approach. Currently, our academy seems irrelevant.

I've never seen Seager play, but I'd like to. I'd never seen Gallager play until I went to the Yeovil match last year. He played well and scored. I can confidently say that I don't believe Koeman would have played him. Reed is worth a game a month IMO, and if he isn't ready then neither is Clasie. Interestingly, JWP plays regularly and I see nothing of merit in his performances (this may make me a hypocrite), I can't believe Reed would be any less effective. Also Targett was awful when he first started in the team, but after a run of games started improving, confidence is fragile but makes all the difference.

I'd just like to have seen the others a bit over the last 18 months. You know, when Pelle was sulking, when vic was walking around, when clasie was injured. It provides motivation and that in itself is worthwhile.

Only one way to find out...

I agree with your points above, though I would debate the academy players not being good enough, that comes down to motivation. I think the perception of the PL abroad is that clubs spend their way out of trouble. Now that we are in trouble, he expects investment. Personally, I am not confident that providing investment to this particular manager is worthwhile, sad as I am to say it. I'm inclined to believe the issues outlined by Guan.

I think he just expects heavy investment. I think that was his expectation when coming to England. Quite a lot of cash has been spent and not all of it wisely.

Very interesting read. Many thanks.