Gallowgate Toon

This. Very poor for that first.

Depressing watching teams go for it, instead of being spineless c***s. Eurgh, that's irked me more than anything today

It's what we need, a bit of a bastard to get the team going. There are too many shirkers right now, good when things are rosy but hide when we're in the shit. You could see Cabaye's drive was infectious for other players.

Got to agree with that. He exuded confidence and seemed like he wanted to pull the team forward.

One of his other great assets is that he's a very good leader, he's the type of player you want in the position we're in, we don't have enough right now. Really hope we get this through, still nowhere confident though.

Too slow for the first.

I think the push for M'Biwa suggests he'll be off and we're preparing for life without him. If not now, definitely in the summer.

The balance of it was fantastic. We've found it tough to break teams down this year, so it was fairly impressive that we got through a very defensive Reading a few times, that's the highest amount of clear cut chances we've created for a long time. One of the few positives I've taken from today, and something that gives me a shred of hope.

Should never come off at home to shite teams unless it's massively obvious we've killed the other team off. They were scared of him, you could see they were happier to push up when he went off.

I don't believe his waffle about telling them to do the same thing at half time. This bloke tried to convince us we played 4-3-3 against Swansea when we very obviously did no such thing.

Also the fact he played more on the wing in that second half is a joke, his movement was brilliant in the first and he looked very threatening.

He looked pretty annoyed during the last 10 minutes and at the final whistle. No wonder, his boss is a clown.

We need him in for some feel good factor around the club.

I'd play as we did for the majority of today, just without Shola and Williamson starting. Krul Debuchy Taylor Colo Santon Anita Cabaye Marveaux Gutierrez Cisse Obertan If he is to start Shola, please do this Alan. Anita Cabaye Jonas Marveaux Cisse Shola I think we can get a result here, as long as we're positive in our approach.

He played well, we got to see some of his attacking exploits.

2 of his chances were cracking saves. That low Debuchy cross was a lot more difficult than it looked, their 'keeper was out like a shot.

Great first half, even with our dysfunctional wingers, we still created a lot, and the structure of the midfield was really perfect. Anita sat in front of the defence well and sprayed the ball about, with Cabaye and Marveaux ahead of him working their magic. We should have been at least 2 up by half time, but I thought their keeper made 2 excellent saves in particular. Second half was atrocious. They were never in the game until that embarrassing substitution, so I don't buy any of this bull about us needing a tackle in the middle, but why even take Marveaux off? Considering he's actually fit. We shouldn't ever think about shutting up shop while 1 up at home, it's a game that is so rarely won by a team. Jonas and Shola finishing the game says it all. We do need some players in, but we also need a manager that actually believes in the players he has.

How the fuck he lasted 90 minutes is beyond me.

Played much better in a 3 man midfield, shock horror. Hope his injury isn't too serious.

This dafty's trying to say they were bossing the second half before the changes It was more even, yes, but they were hardly threatening, the need for a 'tackle', as he put it, just wasn't necessary. Even so, why take off a player who's actually fully fit before the one who hasn't played a full match in 2 months. Imbecile.

Jonas and Shola in the same team man, this is going to be depressing.

Unbelievable

I doubt we'd have told him he'd have played exclusively wide for us, we know Pards loves to tinker every 2 minutes.

I'm amazed nobody's snapped him up already. It would be a major coup if we got him, I'm not particularly confident mind, I think this will just spur other clubs to get him in.

Really surprised we've not been linked with Gouffran. He's exactly what we need at the moment.