jackyboy

Dubs instills confidence in the defenders while Darlow causes panic

Bruce is the man if he's as good as the pundits tell us

Didn't win but most enjoyable performance for over 2 years. Joelinton, apart from not even managing to get a shot away with that opportunity, was the best I've seen from him. Darlow was the only reason we lost. Shelvey a massive improvement in performance and attitude. Tough days ahead but I think we can survive

Be like playing with 10 men without Eddie

Maybe he'll go back to Birmingham now as they've just sacked their manager

I thought that Manquillo was always poor a left back and Dummett is best at CB

As it seems that Eddie was in discussions with Amanda for a while before the takeover, I would imagine that he will have been watching the team and making plans for if he was offered the job

Very difficult to evaluate how well Gerrard has done at Rangers. Brought them up to the SPL but they were the only club with money and a sizeable fan base. Once in the SPL the only opposition were Celtic who were skint and at rock bottom. I lived up in Scotland for a number of years and the standard of football, even with the top two teams, was atrocious. I have a feeling he may found out at Villa, as Lampard was at Chelsea and the Villa fans are not patient

Where they played before should not come into the equation. I thought that Howe hit it on the head when he said of NUFC 'It just felt like a good fit'. That to me is everything. Jose was a good fit at Chelsea but not at Man U or Spurs. He never seemed to fit into those clubs and his present gig could end in tears also. There's no way of telling if Gerrard will do well with Villa and even if he does there is no guarantee that he can carry that success to Liverpool

Often looks decent when playing for Scotland

The money that our new owners have will not buy solutions to all of our problems which have festered for more than a decade. They aren't going to leap in and throw money at everything that moves. Our whole club is a complete mess. Our training facilities and present coaches will not produce first class athletes. Jones is doing all he can in a job he doesn't want and people should stop knocking him. We all have our opinions about what team to play, what tactics to use etc., but, we don't have the inside info on players fitness, mental state, injuries etc. It is going to be a long hard road. The difference to what we've had before is that the new owners want success as much as we do and the best we can do is support them

I see that Rondon is only a sub today. Apparently the Everton fans have not been impressed with him

A good result, one we'd have taken before kick off. Jones has improved the side enough to get us 2 points we wouldn't have got under Bruce and no matter who comes in, things won't change overnight

Dubs and Willock are not 100% fit. With the exception of Krafth, not much more he could do. Get behind him FFS

Norwich aren't there yet, long way to go and they do leak goals.

Relegation wouldn't be a disaster. We have the resources to come straight back up (and Howe knows how to do it) . Gives us a season to rebuild from scratch in every aspect rather than buying short term fixes

It is sometimes a good thing for a manager to have some time out as Howe has done. It gives them time to recharge the batteries, use the time to evaluate what went on before and perhaps see ways of doing things differently to improve their skills. He did more good things than bad during his time with Bournemouth that's for sure

It was the only way he'd come here. Bruce was on the verge of the sack and he didn't want to be kicked out the door with him I understand that he was promised a position with whoever came in

Write a cheque out to Everton and get the man back here

Rafa would also stick with us if we did get relegated, not sure some of the other names would

No surprise with Nuno really. I thought his last season with Wolves he was sackable and living on his previous success

Klopp had nothing but good things to say about Potter and Brighton and they've played us off the park the last twice

Didn't Nuno turn them down initially?

The only way to play yesterday was defensive to try and stop Chelsea from scoring or scoring too many. For an hour we did just that and Chelsea barely had a shot at goal. We are up against one of the best teams and manager in Europe. No manager will turn this around in the short term. We have a long grim road ahead

Centre of our defense is the weakest point. Lascelles Clark and Hayden just can't control or pass the ball. The only thing they do is play it square, backwards or hoof it. Even with space in front of them when they get the ball, they don't move into the space, all they want to do is get rid of it. At least with Schar and Fernandez in there you have players who can pass the ball. Clark and Lascelles are just old fashioned centre halves and don't fit the modern game