Jimmy

I wonder how many people making excuses for Rudkin were also the ones that refused to accept we were in a relegation battle last season? We sleepwalked into relegation we are now in a position where we only really have 3 cms and one of those is out for 3 months, Praet is off and doesn't stand out in a league a player of his ability should be a leading player for and Yunus is a winger. Not finding a transfer for Souttar and Ward, the latter of whom is on big money, is handicapping us for FFP. It's not just the Sensi deal, its window after window players we want to sell go no where. And we already know the big sales are handled by Whelan not Rudkin and now we have a second manager saying the finances are worse than they had been led to believe, that's shitty management by a director, he's crawled his way into Tops arse so the only way he'll be gone is if fans demand it and even then I'm not sure it'd happen and Top is rarely here

how about take the £4m we were offered for our 4th choice keeper in the summer instead of holding out for £6m given the balance of the difference will be spent on his wages for this season alone, be pro-active in finding transfers for players the manager doesn't want like Souttar, Praet etc. It's like they expect people to come to us for them when some of them have barely played in a year. We had this last season too and we mostly put it down to Rodgers wanting out but it was the same failing then. If the deal with Sensi only collapsed over terms with Inter why haven't we signed him on a bosman already, he was here after all, for the summer?

Jonathan Morgan sacked by Sheffield United after new evidence of his actions before he arrived at the club making his position there untenable

we're not even going to get him on a Bosman in the summer are we ...

the man is stealing a living

I suspect this isn't something Enzo wants but its part of the players full learning the system

doesn't explain the refusal to go into the space, which changes the passing lanes forces defenders to move opening up new attacking options which is surely the point of the system in the first place

the one that really sticks out is he won the ball at right back and even started to charge down the wing then stopped and turned back, why? you had support and players to cover you go and attack

no but the fact he's started to wonder up field when the other side has the ball is worrying, its one thing when he has the ball as someone else fills in but when they have it it just leaves a gaping hole, its not like he's winning the ball either, Jannic as the centre of the 3 needs to get hold of him and keep him back there

he's off in the summer probably back to Germany to play in European competitions, its part of the reason I'd like to see Coady come in for some games we need to see the system with him there. Unless we have a real gem lined up for that role in the summer Coady's our main option next season

some of the players need to make better choices that'll fix this at least twice Tuesday Ricardo had the chance to run forward at least 10-15 yards with the ball and pick a forward pass both times he stopped and turn back to Vestergaard and I'm sure other players will have done similar and you see the attacking players getting annoyed by it too, the plan itself is fine but when its on to go forward then need to do it, it'd also help us finish sides off

maybe they will move Sam Tierney back to CB, she signed as a defender

hasn't done enough to keep Fatawu out of the side now his ban is over but will be very useful off the bench and I'd like to see him in an 8 role at some point, maybe in the cup

not if the play was for him to be involved tonight, the weekend is probably more likely but I wouldn't rule tonight out

commentators kept going on about how experienced the ref was, kept thinking to myself every time that doesn't means she's good, O'Brien got booked for dissent but it didn't look like she did anything?

any noise about whether Bologna will take up their option?

triple sub, Rose, Howard and Bott on for Nevin, O'Brien and Green

15, I forget which of the 2 Japanese girls it is looks a really good addition to the base of midfield

deserved lead

at least one of those players were signed when already aged at least 20, I'm not sure about Silko Thomas' age, in Raikhy and many people that have watched him at U21 level think's he's pretty crap but either way both were signed this summer and being called our academy graduates is pathetic. Stolarczyk wasn't exactly a kid when he joined either. If the club truly are serious then they need to force Rudkin to give up his grip on the academy, its a full time job not one you split time on whilst also being the DoF. So many players look really good at U18 level for us then almost never feature for the U21s and never go on loan its a waste

for years our U21 side was full of overage players as we tried to win it, Rudkin is very hands on with academy hence his old job never being filled, Beaglehole and Petty are his mates they do what he wants. if it was about developing talent a lot more would be out on loan and people like Reece Evans would be regulars in the U21s instead of still being in the U18s

Finished 5-1 Everton scoring in the 96th min

Rantala 5-0

Man City 2-0

Either way a big win can only help the confidence levels