Is this the right time to say again THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A F**KING PROPER CENTRAL DEFENDER!!!

Showing what a stupid decision Brereton was for a club in our position. We could’ve bought a good, £2m proven goalscorer, a £2m centre half, and a £2m winger and still had £1m change. Dack was £750k so you can’t tell me we couldn’t have signed 3 very good (for our squad) players who could’ve made a huge difference from League One. Preston just signed at least a couple who are playing really well for them. Our scouting must be shite, or it’s just piss poor decision making by those in charge.

So the options for our leaky (at times) central defence are 3 converted midfielders who between them are injury prone, getting on, or struggling a bit at this level, and a supposed left back who I'm still not entirely convinced is a footballer. Wowzers.

Well this year so far I've got some oldies booked in (before god forbid any of them peg it) - The Rolling Stones in Glendale Arizona early May, followed by Paul McCartney in June in Arlington (actually the second last gig at the home of the Texas Rangers - which despite only being a 24 year old, $200m, purpose built baseball park is being torn down for a new one!) Am gutted I'll be stuck over here when the Bluedot festival is one - Kraftwerk, New Order and Hot Chip is one hell of a line up!

The guy who scored was offside, but no excusing Raya's schoolboy error.

Exactly. No need to change the formation whatsoever.

3 at the back idea is looking strong How many times do we have to try it and it end up a fkn disaster for TM to realise WE DON'T HAVE THE PLAYERS TO PLAY THAT WAY!!!

7 changes but not the one (dropping Lenihan for Downing) that we really needed ....

Why should it be a strength?? They are both converted midfielders who were our number one partnership last time we slipped out of this league. A number of us on here said our priority signing on promotion should've been a proper, old-school, blood and thunder centre half as Mulgrew/Lenihan aren't up to it. Being proven every week. Number one rule in football, you build a team from the back on a solid defence that doesn't give away many goals - you don't spunk £7m on a young striker with 'potential' unless you are Man City or Liverpool.

The Doors - Five To One

Team selection - wrong Not buying a proper Championship level centre half in summer - wrong Spunking £7m on a striker with potential when you needed a defender - wrong Thinking you’re Pep Guardiola and Dack is the English Messi - wrong Thinking that Williams is a Championship level LB - wrong

Dack has had a total shocker. Think he’s believing his own hype a bit too much these days.

Williams is a liability.

Smallwood and Armstrong off for Brereton and Graham for me at half time. May as well go for it now.

Stupid team selection. You can play a ‘false 9’ when you’re Pep and you’ve got Messi. Not only has it cost us the game having no outlet up front, what is it saying to your strikers that you prefer midfielders in their position. When Mowbray gets it wrong he gets it totally and completely wrong. Blame for this lies totally at his door.

The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It

The Housemartins - Happy Hour

Agree entirely on Mulgrew & Lenihan. A lot of people seem to forget that they were our CB partnership for a good chunk of the relegation season. They looked good last year but let’s not forget that was at a lower level, Mulgrew is another year older and both are susceptible to injury. To not bring in someone to challenge or replace them in case of loss of form or injury - especially when they are not a proven Championship CB pairing by any means - was a huge mistake for me.

Not even that far back - I saw Paul McKinnon - that was the nadir surely?

Definitely a dream as he's on 65k a week ?

If you insist. A prime example of a great coach who just never had it in him to be a manager. Signed Ashley Ward and stuck with him when most weren't even convinced he was a footballer, let alone a Premier League striker. Was probably too honest - can't imagine the 'rubber dinghy men' comment did a whole lot for morale. At the time of his appointment seemed a good decision; hindsight now says not.

Lots of talk about Sterling - Alli has been worse for me (he doesn't look fit). I'd leave Sterling in and put Loftus-Cheek in for Alli, who I think has been good when he's had the chance. Maybe Rashford if we really want to have a go at the Swedes. Oh, and how come no-one has mentioned Ashley Young? He's been very poor IMO - nothing good, either offensively or defensively has come down our left side - and the set-pieces he's taken have been very hit and miss (mainly miss). We've got two vastly superior options in Rose and Delph both fit and ready, one of them deserves a chance.

I think most of James, Falcao, Cuadrado, and Zapata would walk into our squad, if not our starting line-up. They've also got Mina who Barcelona splashed out 12m on so he must be decent too. As for England, we've done OK but only just beat Tunisia - and were pretty average and predictable for two-thirds of that game - and yesterday we put an extremely poor side to the sword thanks to some excellent set pieces, one cracking goal, a lucky deflection and Panama thinking it was a WWE match and not a football one. I think there's more to come from England, and we'd give Colombia a good game but I'd say it was at best 50/50 as to whether we'd beat them. Also, I'd drop Ashley Young and Sterling, both of whom have done eff all in the first 2 games and replace with Rose or Delph and Rashford. And James was poor at BM and RM? 28 goals in 77 games, at Real and 7 in 23 at Bayern from a midfielder is pretty decent in my book.

Freddy just ended a Chris Brown-esque 3 year goal drought ..... now playing one level down from the MLS in Las Vegas. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44380883

Decent line-up there (apart from shite like Whatsapp Ricky ), I would definitely go and see The XX and Sampha too. I've seen Everything Everything 3 times and they've been great every time. As for Liam, love or loathe the man - as a live performer he's still a must-see. Seen him twice over here in the last 12 months and he was superb both times.