Exiled_Rover

Pace? Dolan?

How are they faltering? Besides the established Academy graduates in the first team you've got Duru on the cusp of breaking through. A couple of other Academy kids have made the bench recently too.

Pickering won't play again this year. What do you do if Beck picks up a knock? We need a LB in January.

Because we only have one and it's a long season.

Cantwell is by far our most talented player. He stitches things together playing as the #10 but he needs support. Hedges and Dolan out wide are good defensive, but a liability going forward.

He needs a LB and probably a CM if Travis and Pickering are out for a while. That'll eat into any funds we have for attacking reinforcements.

Do you get MotM for missing an absolute sitter?

I think they're a very lucky team - they have pace, but all of their defending was last second lunges. Delighted they didn't steal the 3 points today.

That lad is constantly injured.

He's a far more talented player than Dolan. Similar pace though.

Their manager was sacked before Christmas for a reason. Eustace is working miracles with out squad.

New manager bounce and they have a better squad than we do.

Baker got stuck in that Chelsea loan vortex for too long, but he's a quality player. Stoke had a change of manager and wanted rid of him, it happens. We're undoubtedly paying all of his wages so that's as good as a transfer for them.

To be fair there's nothing to do over in Sunderland.

2 points from the next 2 would be outstanding. Our season is about to hit the buffers I fear - injuries and fixtures piling up.

Based purely on the warm-up drills he's the best finisher at the club. He just has absolutely zero physicality.

It's disappointing that the least interesting prospect is doing the best on loan. I was hoping for big jumps by Garrett, Batty, O'Riordan et al. Markanday has already proven he's not good enough for the Championship.

Fantastic management to injure two of our players, leaving us down to ten men for twenty minutes. They should pull that one out more often.

It was a soft tissue injury (thigh? hamstring?) that they had no interest in risking despite the fact it'd send us down to ten men. He'll be out for most of (if not all) of this festive period. We have five games in a fortnight.

We started the game with Ohashi, Gueye, ACD and Cantwell on the pitch. Short of throwing Hedges / Dolan / Leonard on for one of the two CMs we literally can't get more attacking than that with this squad.

Pace out wide please. The other option is a Premier League quality #9 with pace to do it all on their own, but I doubt anyone is going to sell / loan us one of those. Gueye and Ohashi get no service at all.

I'm flattered you pay so much attention to my posts. If you could explain where the ref got 8 minutes from today I'd be much obliged. Or why he refused to book any of their players that'd be lovely.

What did Gueye do wrong?!

They didn't deserve anything - a draw was a fair result. Under absolutely no pressure until we went down to 10 men. ACD and Weimann should have taken their chances - you always leave yourself open to a soft goal if you don't.

Not with this run of fixtures we won't.