Tiotes Witch Doctor

Waster.

Atsu should be starting ahead of Ritchie on the right, isn't even that great all round but offers much more.

Abymsal as ever, but Hayden was no better, sadly, it seems they were both instructed to stay deep, which contributed hugely to us losing the game IMO.

Excellent post

Average at best.

We've played just as bad with Shelvey though on various occasions, tactics were poor. Simple as that for me.

Lets move Diame into a position he would probably struggle in when hes only just started hitting form in the position he was supposed to. Plan.

Happy xmas to all. Fuck the villa.

Mag.

That overhead kick, though. the enforrccccerrrr

He wasn't good vs Hull mind, misplaced an incredible amount of passes Hopefully will be a good signing though.

Sunderlands next manager.

I do think with Rafa in charge we would stay up comfortably even with the current squad, probably not top 10 or anything but comfortably above the bottom 3. However there's not many spots in the team that we don't need to strengthen if we want to try and kick on and have a solid PL team. In all honesty I would keep a fair amount of the current squad, but would hope for about 5-6 quality signings if and when we do go up. Would probably offload, Krul, Sels, Hanley, Tiote, Gouffran, Murphy, Perez, Colback, De Jong. Timmy because I think he would bring in a decent fee in an area we are well stocked, and the rest because they are shite or I'm not convinced they could do a PL job (or haven't done a PL job in the past) Would also not mind losing Mbemba, Dummett, Diame, possibly Clark if higher quality signings were made in those areas, Clark being the tough one because hes been our best central defender by far this season, and think he may improve further and have a good PL season with Rafa, others are basically solid players too but as I say, we could and probably will make improvements. I'm actually genuinely excited to see if we can attract some biggish names next season.

Its an 8 for me without Shelvey.

He will get banned, be a nice early xmas present if he doesn't though.

Personally think Arsenal should move on from Wenger, its all relative at the end of the day, the talent in their squad and seemingly millions tucked away that Wenger refuses to spend, give the job to someone with similar stature with fresh ideas bring in the forward, battling DM and top class CB they've needed for years and they will probably win the league in the next few years at least.

I feel we've had a lot of fortune this season in these situations, we defend well last gasp, but theres been a lot of close chances and posts and bars etc..

I know you get slated if you question anything but surely we should be doing better than this?

Fucking hell man, is that gonna be it?

This is painful to listen to.

We're not. They've had once chance the whole half. Hence the hanging on.

Would maybe get Mitro on.

Happy if we win obviously but not sure why we make it so hard on ourselves.