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It would be interesting to see if it might relate back to the Forest game, fairly sure he took quite the knock in the second half that rolled his ankle, although can't say it impeded his performance against Liverpool.

This is it ultimately, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place but not quite turned into Aron Ralston (don't google if squeamish) in our decision making.

Intent was there for the push as he looks at him before doing it, but the Brighton player was off balance so ended up catching his head. Straight red based on those factors - stupid behaviour.

We miss Sven, hopefully makes the bench but with no replacement for Schar and Burn we're seeing their form take a massive dip.

It feels like this is the season done and dusted. We've not been good enough for weeks bar the odd 20 minute spell in a game here and there. Stupidity from Gordon and deservedly will miss the final, their CB made the most of it, but that feels like the game in this day and age. Our options from the bench today offered nothing, you can make a triple sub, but we are often worse. This isn't an anomaly of a performance, our winning run papered over this season as we've arguably played worse over the majority of this season than we have been better.

Shocking second half and you could see it coming within the first five minutes. We were slightly unlucky with the Tonali and Isak crossbar, but overall it was sloppy. The second goal from them was awful defending and he is tapping it in 5 yards out. After the Bournemouth game a lot were saying write it off and move on, me being one of them, but we've got some consistent issues that are creeping into our game.

It is going to be a big summer, but if there is a deal to be done and we have to lose Willock you'd take it.

You have to assume summer 2025 is going to be a big window for us depending on where we finish this season. Almiron and potentially Kelly sold this window. Schar and Krafth to get contract extensions. Pope will be an interesting one as he enters his final year, could see an extension and Trafford coming in. Dubravka, Wilson, Lascelles, Ruddy and Lewis all out of contract and likely leaving end of the season. Longstaff, Trippier and Targett will likely be moved on given their contracts end in 2026 - realistically these are deals we should be doing. Burn you could see getting a one year deal if we sell Kelly. Mitchell certainly has his work cut out and especially if we qualify for Europe.

Disappointing, but we gave chances away against Wolves and Bournemouth were great today and more likely to take advantage. A game we need to move on from and look to bounce back against Southampton. Majority of the players were below par and they nullified us in attack. We didn't dominate in midfield and defensively were poor with their wingers pushing Hall and Livramento back. I thought Dubravka made some good saves and would likely keep him in goal when Pope comes back due to his form over the last 10 games.

With anything as soon as someone new comes into an organisation they are going to look to make improvements. Last season we were decimated by injuries which resulted in a change of structure to bring in a specialist to look at improving this part of the club. If Botman came back early and was injured then it would be James Bunce getting pelters for allowing that to happen. Generally the better staff in senior management protect those in roles beneath them, however we've had a summer disrupted by change and come January hopefully those processes are smoother. If something isn't being done in the best way I'd rather someone come in and say that then just agreeing and if we're in the top four in December then holding off this summer might open us up for an exciting 2025.

I'm not sure if it was classed as the same situation, but Dalot for Man Utd last season againt Liverpool was a pretty quick yellows to red.

Their team bus was parked down the side yesterday so they'll have a short drive to the stadium, hardly seems worth it!

Steve Bruce. At the time the club just gaslit the fans into thinking this was a brilliant piece of business or bargain. We're always desperate for signings so you can make it seem attractive. It was a really underwhelming window and we're paying for that now. Ironically same window Lewis came in and he's just went out on loan.

Whilst the players mentioned aren't good enough, this is a symptom of the way the club was previously managed. I liked Saint-Maximin, but I just have to trust that the club will be smart and invest in players that longer term fit the way we want to play and when we do have to sell again we're not giving players away for free to get them off the books. For Fraser we actively targeted him due to his contract situation, at the time it would seem like a good deal due to the lack of a transfer fee so gave him a 5 year contract, but obviously it hasn't worked out. It was the same for Hendrick, a four year deal and free transfer, being hailed as great business with him being an experienced international by the manager. In all honesty, the window of 2020/21, Wilson aside, was shocking. We had enough funds to make a 'blow out' signing and the rest were attempted bargains under that management which at this stage has left us vulnerable because we've got dead wood.

With the following players out of contract at the end of the season including Dummett, Lascelles, Schar, Krafth, Manquillo, Wilson, Ritchie, Karius and Gillespie. The club priorities must be a CB, RB, LB, GK and ST?