Mick

Thousands of our fans travelled to Swansea, to do you think they did that to see a negative bastard remove his only striking threat so he could keep the score down? Playing nobody up front is taking the piss, I would accept it if we were trying to hold onto something but not to keep the score down when we could have released pressure by trying to keep the ball further up the pitch.

Steven Taylor did get on, he came on for the injured Sissoko. Taylor came on for Sissoko when it would have made more sense to bring on Perez and drop Wijnaldum into midfield. Then we removed our only attacking player and replaced him with a winger before replacing a winger with a forward. His use of substitutions is bizarre.

Taylor can play in his position, Mbemba can and so can Anita. All of them better than doing nothing and going down to 10 men and playing nobody up front.

Everybody except for one, maybe two people.

The closest I saw us get to scoring was Obertan shooting from a distance that he was never going to score from and he only did that because he wanted rid of the ball.

How many times have you heard it said that 10 men are harder to play against than 11? We weren't, the drawbridge was up along with the white flag.

We mightn't have been getting shafted if we had tried to have more of a go, today was a shocker and McClaren played his part in that.

Who would have thought Everton would go to Southampton and beat them 3-0 or who would have thought that West Ham would beat Arsenal 2-0 away? Are we the only ones who have to see our results go the way that you expect?

He's part of the reason we're down to 10 men.

Cisse didn't have to be on and at least we were getting out of our own half, even if we did come straight back.

I wonder why we can't get out of our half? It's as if we've got no forwards on.

The last 3 words are as pointless as Obertan.

No forward.

No forward, are we trying to keep our goal difference down?

So easy.

It wasn't McClaren's fault he got booked, it was his fault that he was still on the pitch to get sent off.

Subbed him, is that difficult to work out? Get away, man. Aye, let's just go down to 10 men instead.

It wasn't because he had been booked, it was because he'd been booked and was making niggly fouls.

Subbed him, is that difficult to work out?

The contact was minimal for his first card.

Janmaat had a few niggly tackles before the sending off, it always looked likely that he was going to walk at some point and McClaren should have seen that.

The first booking was never a booking.

Janmaat rightly walks but McClaren has bottled taking him off before he could get sent off.