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The reality is that we have to beat Watford, good kick in the bollox, and let them play catchup. We have wind in our sails and both the fans and the team will be bouyant with a couple of signings in Jan. We desperately need to beat them in a weeks time!!

just seen Morelos mentioned on another site, scores them for fun up in sockland. Worth a 20 mil bid?

Have to beat Watford! really put a dent in their confidence if we go above them.

We need trippier, botman and a proper defensive midfielder asap, our defence with these two would be totally different and with a dynamic holding midfielder in front of them we would be a totally different team. A striker obviously would catapault us into orbit...

He is always trying to give lectures to players and whistles at them to tick them off. Like a miserable twa# headmaster the way he wants to tick off players. Does my head in tbh.

Top balla now

Aye, played really well last night, typical for him to get injured just when he is really needed

Martial and Lingard to cover us up front. Tarkowski, The Bot and trippier in the defence. Bouba Kamara as the midfield enforcer. 100 mil to get the dice rollin?

Really impressed with him over the last 3-4 games. Let's forget the original premise that he was a striker and let him develop as a box to box midfielder, really looks the business in that position... Attitude and fight is 100% spot on, fights for everything and anything. Love it! Good luck to him!

The defence remains the same, so we will make a couple of mistakes and gift a couple of goals without doubt. No lewis, Fede or hayden in front of them. Hope Lascelles and Schar have a blinder and Clark gets run over by a bus on his way to the game Only slither of hope is that we are on form up top and manage a couple ourselves.

as well as new players coming in and giving us a lift

I prefer we get beat but still stick to the system he wants to play, this way we should have a bit more success against the teams out of the top six/seven. The players will start to play better and surely some of the reffing decisions and luck needs to come our way at some point???

If that were the case: Take off Martial and left back (manquillo is OK tbh)

The only people worth keeping for this/next year: Lewis, manquillo, fede, schar, Dubs, fraser, willock, almiron, Joe, maxi, wilson, murphy

We need seven or eight (if we want cover for wilson) signings in my opinion: Centre Back (x2) (Ake & tarkowski/Bot) Left back (??) Right back (Trippier) Defensive mid (??) Ball playing mid (??) Right wing/Striker (Lingard) Striker /Nº 10 (martial)

Or 451 (more realistic)

Think it will be more of a 4-2-3-1 With maxi up top

Wouldn´t mind this... Bit slow though if caught on break

Eddie Howe must have watched videos of us playing, and he must have seen just how sub standard Clark is in everything he does. Yes, he tries hard, but his best is only suitable to a league below the one he is in... Manquillo Schar Fernandez Lewis These lot played the best we have seen for a while, why on earth would we put Lascelles or Clark back in when both have looked absolute mince for a long time....

This, but I would call it a 4-1-4-1

Would swap out ritchie for lewis (he was decent against Norwich) and we have a team capable of both defending and attacking. Still not sure about Shelvey, maybe hayden in there for a bit more cover

Everybody knows and has commented on Clarks one or two glaring errors every game. he is a complete liability... Why on earth he is on the pitch instead of fernbandez is anyone´s guess??? Cost us the game last night. Very basic defender at championship level at best

Ritchie tries hard but he is no defender, krafth doesn´t really do anything, apart from back off until the attacker gets his pass/shot off, as far as I can see... Manquillo should be playing and Fernandez, don´t know what the story is there.

The next two games are must wins (Norwich/Burnley) and if we get on a run we could pray for an away result at leicester. The 2 mancs will beat us, then everton and southhampton which we might get something from. I would say 6 to 9 points max until the second week of jan when new recruits (scouted and signed on 1st jan) might be bedded in. Let´s say 12 points in jan, I still think we will be in the bottom three and a good six points or so from the nearest teams... We have a decent run of games where we could pick up points in Jan Feb (watford/leeds/villa/brentford). Fingers and toes crossed! Come on Eddie, make yourself a hero!

Very poor today... as always. What we ever saw in this guy (pricetag), got ripped off at 5 mil!