The hysteria on this thread is just ridiculous. We have a workmanlike squad who play workmanlike football. We have been doing it for a few seasons now. The squad needs overhauling and Parish etc know that. To do this over the next 3/4 transfer windows and remain in the Premiership will take some doing. We have made some small steps this season-Eze / Mitchell. We will probably take some larger steps in the summer, but it won’t happen overnight. We need to maintain some stability whilst this process is completed. Most on here would change the whole squad and the management team tomorrow. Well that would be a recipe for disaster.

Relatively early subs this week and ALL attacking players BUT where were they when they got on and what did they do? Sweet nothing.

It's sad to have to say that our performance went even further south after Benteke came off.

Zaha continued his recent underwhelming performances and Eze was generally well marshalled by the opposition.

We couldn't cope with their aggressive pressing game resulting in our players not wanting to receive the ball and hence, passes went astray regularly.

If the bulk of this squad is retained, we will not survive in the PL next season.

S

Agree on this one Sprite and his petulance will cost him a move to one of the big clubs as is his wish. In my opinion he will stay with us and hopefully a new manager will sort him out. Still has a lot to offer but lost the plot currently.

Bring back Brolin

Thought we played ok and, like most Premier League games, it hinged on a couple of key moments.

I doubt Dann would have started instead of Cahill if we still needed the points and the introduction of Mateta and Bats worked in their favour and not ours

Good look in the mirror required...

"If he had the same players next season he wouldn’t get relegated. "

really you think this or its your humour?

We lost that game because we were bullied in midfield. We needed a hard man in there to compete. The ref let them away with it and gave them license to get stuck in. Ward-Prowse is a niggly little sh*t who kicks and pushes and winds players up. He gets away with it because the big boys in the team protect him when players react like Kouyate did.

He needed put in his place first 5 minutes. Failing that I think Kouyate should have flattened him in the last five minutes. It would have been worth a red card.

So Clinton knows Roy is leaving and we’re bringing in kids. I guess that means Frankie boy is the next manager.