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The bloke is delusional if he thinks he should be a Premier League player - doesn't have the engine required. I disagree that he'd have done well in the Championship - not physical enough, he'd have been bypassed. Well suited to the French League obviously.

To think of the stick I used to get on here when I criticised Godfrey!!! That £25m was an unbelievable deal. Massively over-rated and always positionally all over the place. He should have been a CDM anyway.... Giannoulis is up there for me as the most over-rated in the current squad; have never understood why people rate him above McCallum.

Up there with my 3 best ever football memories (the other two being the Milk Cup final and Bayern Munich). Just imagine VAR ruling that out.......

Which negates the entire justification for using VAR in the first place. It's clearly not quite as cut and dried as they would have us believe when the lines are drawn differently in games. So we might just as well rely on the assistant ref. Having said that, I shouted "offside" at the TV in real time, so maybe they should just let me decide.

Doesn't matter what the result is tonight, we will still need something against Swansea to make sure - because I can't see us beating Birmingham if we have to.

Anyone who has played football at any level must recognise that sometimes you get carried away in the heat of the moment, passion of the game etc etc. It's possible you might say and do some things which are usually out of character. The ref is there to control the match and apply the laws i.e. use yellow and red cards when appropriate in his judgement. If a ref's "judgement" is that being sworn at does not warrant a yellow card, then he or she can't really complain when it keeps happening. This isn't limited to the professional game - it's a problem at all levels.

This. And get rid of VAR entirely.

Not really - because at some stage in the next 5 to 10 years or so both of these clubs will be relegated. As will Brighton. As will Bournemouth etc etc. And none of them will win anything in the meantime, or even get close. The "excitement" is in winning enough games to do it all again next season and go through the same purgatory. Then relegation is seen as a disaster when it's really just a part of the game. Then they have to bounce back or rebuild, demanding the return of their "rightful place" at the trough, and so the cycle continues. The only people benefitting are agents and players. The ludicrous reaction to the once mighty Man Utd almost succumbing to a good Champs team in a semi-final is witness to their entitlement. Embarrassed to win a semi-final? How patronising they are - all of them; Sky, the BBC, the FA and everyone associated with the incompetent officials. I said 6 years ago (to much ridicule, as I recall) that Championship clubs should have the option of selling their PL place on promotion to a billionaire club and I stand by that. The PL only want billionaire clubs and eventually that is what they will have. In the meantime, let's take their money, build facilities and communities and stay in the top 6 of the Championship where the football is at least interesting and entertaining (sometimes).

I don't think there has been a proper "pathway" for a while - we've only played youngsters when we absolutely had to. Even those we thought were good like Fisher get dropped after a couple of nightmare games and take months to reappear. For me, our under 21s should have capable deputies so that our playing style is consistent. Other teams are playing 18, 19, 20 year olds in one off games or small series of games because of injury or unavailability; we don't seem to do that. We just give them 10 minute cameos off the bench and wonder why they don't impress.

Bristol had nothing riding on the game; if they had, they wouldn't have played that way. It's why managers constantly go on about "being brave" and playing with "freedom", which Bristol did. Hopefully, Swansea weren't watching.

Back on topic......SVH was not, I don't think, brought in as a direct replacement in playing style for Idah or Sargent. I don't think any coach could look at him and think he could do that job. He is a very different type of forward and was I suspect an option for Wagner to play a different way - but, as we now know, his favoured way of playing started to finally click into place and deliver results as well as some performances. SVH simply doesn't fit that way - you can't just write him off as a footballer because his attributes don't fit slickly into a system; I would have hoped we would have learned from RVW and Becchio - both good footballers who we couldn't use properly at the time. Wagner is nothing if not determined. His one way of playing can quite easily be dealt with by mobile, quick players and a reasonably astute coach. SVH would need to be able to hold the ball up better and play as a target man to be of any real use; for the same reason, Aboh doesn't get on either. I read a very interesting article about why Steve Weaver is leaving, which basically said it's because our Academy teams don't play the same way as the first team anymore. Farke tried to change that, but it's slipped again since he left. What is the point of having prolific poaching strikers and ball playing centre backs at Academy level if they can't step up when they're needed?

Of course, it might also benefit the potential giant killers chance of a victory first time out - lower league sides invariably lose the replays - so they get a nice lucrative match in the next round.

Bit weird though that at the press conference Sargent was unlikely to play at all, then ends up almost doing his first 90 minutes for months. Mind games, justification for a bad call or sheer incompetence? I guess we'll never know. We got the win but not sure how you can say tactics were spot on when we could easily have been three down at half-time. The subs worked out for us, but that's not been a frequent occurrence this season.

As so many times before, last night's capitulation was solely down to limited tactical awareness from our coaching team. Can't recall how many times it's happened, at least a dozen over the season, but at 2-0 up when we again went backwards 20 yards with no "out"" forward ball after 60 minutes, the loss of 2 points was pretty inevitable - in the end, we were lucky we didn't lose all 3. I don't mind losing when it is deserved, but time after time after time we do the hard part, get into winning positions and then simply invite the opposition to take over the initiative. It's like we hand out a surrender notice and we contrive to draw or lose games we have already won. This manager is tactically out of his depth and proves it game after game. I genuinely wouldn't have him coaching the under 8s. He just doesn't learn. There is one way of playing and if that doesn't work we collapse - it doesn't matter whether we are winning or losing, his approach is the same. The only times it works is if one or more of our players does something individually outstanding. As a team ,we are hopeless tactically. 5 away wins all season is poor - especially when it should have been 9 or 10 with some pretty basic awareness. People on here saying he's done well to turn it around need to at least acknowledge that he took the team with 3rd highest wageroll in this league to 17th position and a potential relegation fight - the bar for improvement is very low, on that basis. The home form has improved, but it was hard for it to get worse than Blackburn; the away form is still atrocious. I'm sure he's a lovely man and is doing his best etc. but it simply isn't good enough and if Knapper has anything at all about him Wagner has to go at the end of this season, whatever happens. God help us if we were to get promoted and keep him in charge.

Apart from Gibbs for Barnes which, tactically, was the best substitution he's made in a year......