Sunbury Fox

I may well get hammered for this but during the remaining matches we really need to get behind Rowett and, though most of them don’t deserve it and it sticks in the craw, this team of mercenaries. Going down to L1 would be an existential crisis for us. I also think it would make Aiywatt even less likely to sell as the club would be worth relative peanuts. We simply have to stay up and hope we can somehow reset with lots of big earners out of contract in the summer.

6 defeats in 7 with the other one being that undeserved draw with a last minute goal at Wrexham.

Please make this end. We've now lost to Southampton's youth team with practically our first team playing for the last hour.

Unlike Page, Monga hasn't progressed at all since his early games. Clearly got a lot of promise but he looks way off being ready to start first team games at this point. The last time he had an impact of substance was when he set up Ricardo's goal at home to Brum in August. Given the hype around him, he has been a bit of a disappointment really. But then we shouldn't be relying on 16 year olds to save our season.

Okoli makes Faes look like prime Nesta.

Another 90 minutes of watching Ayew hobble around ineffectively with a face like a smacked ar*e. Deep joy.

He definitely played for Man City in the previous round.

Did we actually sell out for this?

That second half performance from Thomas was on a par with Danny Ward at home to Wolves last season. Hideous.

Even worse they have "achieved" that at such massive cost that we've ended up with an unprecedented points deduction.

I wonder in which minute we'll concede the first goal?

Thought Okoli would be suspended for 3 games after getting a straight red?

The full backs are killing us. Actually think Ricardo was worse today than even Thomas has been. He is so slow, left the winger acres of space and gifted them a goal. Love Ricardo and he was a great player back in the day but he's finished now. Aluko has to start from now on, as you say. We are utterly desperate for pace and physicality. Less sure whether VK is the answer at LB but has to be worth a try.

Tbf we saw some progress - didn't get a sending off until 30 minutes, which was a lot better than last week.

Players seemed happy to take a narrow defeat in the second half. Pitiful.

Would need to see it back as my stream is not the best but I think it's a harsh decision. His foot was very low.

But beat us at home at a canter.....

Can't believe we've not brought in another out and out number 9 and a LB. We all identified those as the 2 main weaknesses (amongst many) in this team and yet here we are with Thomas at LB and Daka or Ayew up front. Depressing.

I'd love to see Aluko start and Luke Thomas never start for us again but I don't think we should be shoehorning an 18 year old into the team in a position that he's not familiar with in what will be a very tough away game. It's why we needed to bring in a new LB in the transfer window.

Agree. Think I'd go with: Begovic Ricardo Lascelles Nelson VK Skipp Winks Mukasa Fatawu Daka Mavididi But expect Thomas and Ayew to be picked ahead of VK and Daka.

I see the logic but the worry is that he's going to be injured continually and we'll have offered a 2 or 3 year contract on pretty big wages to secure the deal. At this time more than ever we simply can't afford to tie up significant funds on a player who will rarely play.

The quality of the league this season is abysmal, which makes it even more unforgivable that we are at risk of relegation.

The same West Brom who played us off the pitch a few weeks back, despite us spawning a win.

I'm not even sure we'll stay up without a points deduction. The EFL will probably wait for us to be relegated this season then slap with us a huge points deduction to wreck any chance we have of coming back up.

Horrific