Ronaldo

Disgrace if we don't have a striker in before then.

If anyone in our squad could play the Nolan role - behind two strikers picking up on loose/late balls - it's de Jong, certainly. Unfortunately he's about as durable as wet toilet paper.

Not sure about that. He's probably a couple of years away from being a good DM given that experience that position requires and in an attacking sense he won't give you as much as Shelvey.

He created a few chances that nobody attacked and would have won a penalty if not for appalling refereeing. If you don't think he was our best player by far last night you're a bit of an idiot, frankly.

£17m might get us two good players at a push. I'd rather just have Sissoko.

That's the way to stand out from the crowd in the Championship, like. Plenty of width and tempo, just take the rubbish apart. None of this flood the midfield crap.

Not a massive fan but he's the least of our worries. RB's not a problem position.

He might still be a month or two away, regardless, I think he's still our best keeper. He has precisely no competition whatsoever for that accolade, like.

He's definitely Prem quality. Unfortunately I don't think we've got too many cut from that cloth.

Hence why I don't think we'll go up. Honeymoon period well and truly fucking over as far as I'm concerned. 7000 fans down there on a Friday night and that's what he serves up.... He's had a fucking whole summer to know Colback, Anita, Dummet aren't up to the job. We need to win around 20 of our home games and 10 away to go up. We'll do it.

We can expect to see a lot more of this, by the way. Him choosing the 11 almost exclusively with stopping the opposition in mind, as opposed to just putting out the players that theoretically should function the best together.

Nah, it's stupid to say he was terrible. As you say, he looked what he is. Average Championship CB.

A fairly wide open 4-4-2 saw us dick everything in sight in the latter half of our last Championship season. Just saying.

That's a ridiculous comment on so many levels, man.

Aye. Come to think of it it's also a shame we don't have Wijnaldum or Townsend to play instead of Anita.

He was pretty awful tonight, like. Looked like he was running through treacle and far too reliant on his tackling to get out of trouble.

He was awful tonight, like. He's just not a striker in a million years and will always struggle in such a role.

Leave that dog alone man.

He looks alright. I don't like us playing with DMs, though. I'd like to see us play Diame and Shelvey (if Sissoko leaves) with either Perez or de Jong just in front.

Like Villa away we should've been pressing from the first minute. We didn't for some reason and handed the game to the opposition. I'm not sure why.

I was at 12 by about 28 minutes. I don't dislike Anita half as much as the likes of Colback but we'll get nowhere playing him.

I love Rafa but Christ did he get that all wrong.

One save from their keeper all game, by the way. Pitiful. Thought the worst when I saw 2 (or even 3) sitting midfielders in the lineup. You do that in this division you're asking for a scrappy game decided by 1 goal.

He's by a distance our best player, so yeah, we could do with him, like.

What's this about not shaking Rafa's hand?