TRon

Honestly, I think they've barely been near our goal, I don't think it's as big a factor as people are saying. The difference really has been we just haven't shown any real skill in the penalty area, and they did on that one occasion.

Thought it was a good bit of skill from Minteh tbh.

We need one of our players to show some arrogance in the second half.

I hope not, we generally do worse every time we start making changes on the hour mark. We need an early goal in the second half.

Don't think it's that tbh, Willock has been pretty involved. Just feels like we have lacked some quality in the final third, and that's not what Joelinton usually brings. Minteh's touch of magic has been the difference. We've had far better positions than Brighton but produced fuck all.

He just needs to work hard and not go missing. Anything above that will be a bonus.

Fair to assume we will be changing tack slightly, and maybe not pressing as high as usual for this one. Which I am absolutely fine with away from home against a dangerous team.

It's all down to form tbh. If he's causing opposition teams problems and scoring goals, no one would bat an eyelid if he kicked a chip butty out of a starving kids hands. Just have to look at how a couple of good games for Villa had many singing his praises again. He's just not doing enough on the pitch to justify massive wages. That's it really.

I was always hoping that Forest would come unstuck. Not because I've got anything against them, just there was always more chance of them failing than Chelsea or Villa. Would prefer Villa nd Chelsea to fail, but Forest was always a hopeful safety net for us.

I think he means he's a natural fit for the left side midfield role. Miley is fine centrally, but don't think he's got the pace to pull out wide left. Ditto Longstaff who is probably more suited to right side if anything. I don't really see any alternative to Willock unless we change formation.

This is what I was thinking as well. I would even consider it for home fixtures against potential banana skins like Chelsea.

Massive boost tbh.

There's a year left on his contract, Parish might be a pompous quiff, but he's not daft. I think he'll sell this summer, and I think there's a great chance we will be the buyers.

It's very hard to predict without knowing if Joelinton is playing or not. He makes a big difference to our team, and if he's out we will need to have a think whether to set up differently to get the best out of the team we put out.

Stopped listening to football phone-ins years ago. It's like reading the Star to get political insights.

We might get some fringe players given a shot for Liverpool now that they have won the PL, but even their fringe players are top class. Could see Nunez bagging a couple of goals when there's less pressure on for example.

I don't buy this narrative that Liverpool wil get their flip flops out now they have won the league. They are not that type of club, they have a very demanding fan base. I think it's more likely that they'll play without any pressure now and really turn it on.

He's quite tall so he can get a good stride in to make up for lack of pace, a bit like Dan Burn. I think he could do a job in that department for a team mid-lower half of the table.

If we qualify for the CL I think we will be signing one or two.

I pretty much know already. He'd suit a Moyes team basically. Physical and direct, not too much intricate passing.

I know he doesn't want to leave, but a move to Leeds would probably be the next best thing for a home bird like Longstaff. It's barely two hours up the road. He could commute if he really wanted to stay put here.

If we qualify for the CL I am almost certain we keep all our purples. Not only do they want to play in the CL, but they want to play for a team that can do well in the CL. We can go a long way in it.

Chelsea are a difficult team to predict. They haven't played well this season, but they still have around the same points as us. It's a squad full of expensive players, I am always wary of teams like that, because on the day everything can just click and what looks like a win ends up being a draw, or something we don't even want to contemplate. I think we'll win, but it's a dangerous fixture.

Depends if they make CL at the end of the day. If they don't, I think it will have been considered an expensive punt.

I think that might put us behind the queue to clubs like Man U and Chelsea unfortunately. He's far more likely to be first choice there. Although whether either of them would want to risk a punt on him being good enough is debatable. They would want someone more proven I think.