Jim Beglin said that there was talk that Tomkins might have been fit for this game,

That was on BEIN sports - the Qatar channel

How close is Tomkins?

Absolute madness. Hard to criticise Sam at the moment but this was a howler. Schlupp has never played CB in his career and we had a CB on the bench.

Not only a terrible tactical error but what a huge insult to Damo. Damo is past his best for sure but has been a great servant to the club and still has a good performance in him as we saw earlier in the season. If selected for Hull his confidence will be shattered.

If not Damo surely Milo would have been the obvious choice. 5 goals conceded says it all really.

I think we would have lost that game no matter whom we played. Had we had Sakho and Cabaye available we could have limited the damage and maybe got forward more but they played some stuff there's basically no defence against today.

Not worth risking injuries and knackered players for a slightly better performance but which would still have got us nulle points and might have cost us the point we need next week. Better to make sure of the performance next week when we really need it than to waste it on a lost cause.

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I thought dropping Schlupp for PVA v Burnley was the first time I've witnessed favouritism from Sam. Schlupp didn't deserve to be dropped after Spurs

PVA as the more experienced defender of the two, I thought should have played centre back to day. I don't think Sam was saving Damo for Hull, more that he was disappointed with our defence v Burnley

That's a possibility but Sam has never rested anyone yet to save them for the next game - I wish he had !

I think not playing Delaney was a big mistake. Kelly has been playing well but next to the experience of Sako and Tompkins. To leave Kelly as the only centre half with a wingback to help him was suicide and it affected his game. Delaney may be slowing down but he has the experience to organise the defence and that organisation was sadly lacking for the first goal. The balance of the team was all wrong and once we let in their 2nd goal we needed to shut up shop and limit the damage but we couldn't. Kelly and Lucca had to come off to avoid a second yellow and Townsend didn't look 100% - all 3 are vital for the Hull game.
When City are on top form with Silva playing they are just too good and they are the last team to play with an inexperienced and unbalanced defence.
I just hope morale is not dented too much for next week.

What youth cb would that have been? Don't know weather you've seen how bad our development team is