Ronaldo

Eh? He's lost form because his hamstring is fucked and he either can't play or can't play at 100%.

I don't necessarily think the football this season has been great (leaving aside the control argument), but I sometimes wonder what people expected. Even decent Premier League teams don't batter Championship teams when they meet in cup competitions and certainly very few teams in the Championship have seasons where they wipe the floor with other teams each week - it just doesn't happen and didn't happen in 09/10. I personally expected better than having to endure Gouffran playing CM in April, like. I don't really blame Rafa one bit but we've needlessly made this part of the season a bit of tense scrap to grab points and go.

Why not? They're shit. Better than Sheff Wed, who've done the double over us. Yep. But not as good as Brighton and Huddersfield who we've done the double over. It means nowt either way. It means we can't really take comfort from sides being 'shit'. This season we've been fairly susceptible to losing to sides who fall into or near that bracket.

We controlled the game against Wigan Athletic and Burton Albion. Erection worthy.

The thing I don't understand about Perez, when he arrived he looked like he had a bit of genuine pace. Now he's persistently second to the ball against defenders slower than molasses.

Certainly deserved a point. You're just about weird enough to believe that.

The problem with Murphy is you can see what he's going to try 5 seconds before it happens. He's just the definition of Championship predictable. Without Gayle we've got a rubbish attack and we all know it.

Yep.

Why not? They're shit. Better than Sheff Wed, who've done the double over us. Yep. Fortunately football isn't worked out using logic puzzles. If you can't see the argument for Leed's not being 'shit' then your opinion is fucking worthless tbh. It is Ian, to be fair.

Other way round, perhaps. Murphy as the second striker.

The best way to take the pressure off the LB is by putting a genuine attacking threat in front of him. We just don't have one.

Why not? They're shit. Better than Sheff Wed, who've done the double over us.

100%. Rafa's made some mistakes but 84 points from 41 games with this shower is very good.

He's behind Grant Hanley in the pecking order and today's a little reminder of why. Decent footballer but horribly unsuited to the English game. Unusual for a Carr signing.

We don't have a single LW in the squad, either. I doubt that's Rafa's choice.

Of which he bought a fair chunk. He only bought 3 of the players that started today. :lol: And...so Lazaar, Atsu, Murphy, Sels, Gamez who were fit enough to play arent picked to start. How is that not Rafa fault if he doesn't think they're good enough to start. He bought them, he shouldn't immune to stick if it's obvious he's bought some duffers, You can't defend him for using players like Dummett, Colback, Anita, Gouffran etc, if the players he bought aren't better than them. He wanted players to replace Alsoran and Colback in January, to be fair. Not his fault they failed him.

This is it. Dummett is a perfect example of someone who completely hinders our play. We're really missing Yedlin imho. Yet Rafa bought a LB and refuses to play him, who's at fault for that ? Admittedly the player might not have shown enough but Rafa picked him out to buy. We didn't buy a LB, to be fair. Not by any reasonable definition.

We all know he isn't good enough, to be fair. He's been living off performances against teams with nowt to play for last season.

I hope his career is done soon, like. I wouldn't want any other set of fans to suffer like we have watching this talentless shithouse every week.

He's not awful, he's just waaay past his physical plateau. Bit weird at 29 but there you go.

Part of me thinks the best thing all round is to finish 2nd and closer to 3rd than 1st, like. We've got so many awful players and it needs to be drummed home just how much investment we need in the summer. And yes, Yorkie. We need an overhaul.

The squad is miles better than all the other squads in the league You say this with very little clue about the squads of the Championship like. I've said it before but I've looked at squads just above the relegation zone and can say with a fair amount of certainty that Gouffran and Colback wouldn't be getting games for them.

That's the understatement of the century. This Xl would struggle to get 30 points.

It's true, like. At no point during the 24 years I've been a fan have we had as many poor players regularly getting games for us. Just gotta hope we deviate from the norm in the summer and spent loads of money.

Yorkie thinks we don't need an overhaul, mind.