Pilko

Haidara and Tiote didn't even hear the sarcophagus open.

Wonder if we'll see some of the reserves on the bench seeing as the cupboard marked 'no.10' is bare? El Mhanni or Longstaff perhaps?

You'd think Everton might have smelled a rat after they signed Darron Gibson like. I'd take Cleverley purely because he's not Colback, on loan, that's all. Would much rather we signed someone actually a bit good.

Smith's first eight or nine games for us were actually as a wide midfielder on the right, under Allardyce. We had a midfield of Smith - Butt - Geremi - Milner at one point

£15m for a 34-year old :lol: Would be a shit deal for both clubs. Please let it happen.

Let's hope anyone wanting to invest in the mackems doesn't take too close a look at Ledger... they won't like what they see

Elliot; Yedlin, Hanley, Lascelles, Dummett; Hayden, Anita; Lazaar, Perez, Ritchie; Murphy Would go with that tbh.

Replace him with Pat Phelan

Gilliead or Calum Roberts must be worth a look rather than revisiting Sammy ffs. Who else? We going to bring Vuckic back to cover Diame?

Don't worry it'll still give him time to give a free kick for needlessly pushing someone in the back when they're under pressure. aye, there's nothing like wasting roughly 5% of your total pitch time.

I probably didn't word that all too well. The system has largely done us proud this season, but his failure to revert from it at certain moments has us worse off than we should be. Nowt wrong with sticking to your principles, but it's starting to cost us more and more often now.

Can't wait to see him get his eight minutes to shine.

Anyone watching today still wouldn't take Cleverley? I'd take Nathan Cleverley ahead of that useless ginger gonk.

For that very purpose, he's a last resort/cup player. Three minutes is laughable though. Was clear that Gayle was both starved of service and having an off day; Murphy should have been on for longer than that. I'm a Rafa supporter, massively, but having sat through Boxing Day and today, I'm very concerned that his reliance on certain players and this system is going to lose us points that we should in no way be dropping.

Lose.

He's class, but when he's having an off day Rafa won't trust anyone else. Three minutes for Murphy ffs, why buy him?

Hope this knob sleepwalks into traffic tonight. No talent, no clue, and a heart the size of a shrivelled pea.

Today and Sheff Wed were absolutely diabolical and reminiscent of McClaren. Opposition making subs to change the game and us just sitting on 0-0 without any real penetration, only making subs when it's far too late ffs. Picks Colback again and again and still doesn't realise that he's key to our shitty results of late. Wake the fuck up Rafa, all the other teams are winning and your total lack of flexibility is costing us points now. Also, the reliance on Gayle is embarrassing. Strikers on the bench never get more than 5 or 10 minutes and it's so so frustrating.

West Brom evens at home to Hull is mental. Lumping on.

Would be happy enough with a short term move for Cleverley tbh.

The darts tonight. All 4 players to throw a 140+ checkout is 48/1 with Paddy. (6/1 on each match as a double). An absolutely unbelievable price that IMO, bearing in mind the quality of the players. Worth a couple of quid at least.

Spurs/Over 11 match corners/Under 40 match booking points 9/1 HT Watford/FT Spurs + HT Palace/FT Arsenal 440/1

Who's your next messiah? Steve Cram or... errr.... Steve Cram?

If he was behind Mitrovic he might have more scraps to feed off. I wouldn't mind seeing him wide left, there's no way he can offer less than Gouffran does. It's like having two full backs, and his lack of defensive prowess wouldn't matter so much the way Paully D never moves over halfway.

0-2, Gayle and Clark