Our defence -and the changes made

[jamieccfc]

As I understood it both Bamba and Bennett were injured in training (sounded like a collision), hence being on the bench rather than starting.

With Gunnars and NM-L injured, and Kadeem and Madine seemingly not considered good enough to risk, then there are 8 players (inc the 2 sub goalies) out of 25 we can't pick to influence the outfield team, so our matchday team picks itself really. We don't exactly have riches to bring on to change things.

Teams like Man City can bring in extra players who are U-23, such as Foden, to take pressure off the main squad if necessary. I don't think we have a single U-23 player who would make the matchday squad.

This season is just going to be hard and I'm delighted most of our fans yesterday understood that and continued to support the players.

I think we could've spent at least 50 million, playing Arter on the left yesterday against walker and sterling was criminal imo

[Penarth Blues]

I think we could've spent at least 50 million, playing Arter on the left yesterday against walker and sterling was criminal imo

It never ceases to amaze me how happy fans are to spend money that we may not have or could use elsewhere. If you want a say on what we spend then put your own money in. I'm sure the fans will be hugely grateful for your contribution...

On a serious note, we did need to get more players in and NW has noted that himself, but you can't force people to come and I genuinely think we'll attract better players in the Championship than we will in the Prem, unless we can somehow stay up this year.

No-one wants to play in a side likely to be relegation favourites unless you pay them outrageous amounts of money. You only need to see the problems many of the relegated sides have with managing stupid contracts on a drastically reduced income and that could easily be us. I reckon we could have spent what Wolves and Fulham did and still be nowhere near good enough to stay up. Look at how difficult Fulham are finding it and they were a far better equipped side than us on paper when they got promotion.

I genuinely think we will have to be relegated to build a side good enough to stay in the Premiership - IF we were to get promoted again. I think that is the Plan B this season and I'm happy to go along with it given the almost impossible task of completely changing the side we had in the space of a few weeks.