Tripps

I have no sympathy with him whatsoever for getting caught cheating. A mess all of his own making.

From a footballing perspective he remains by far and away our most composed player on the ball. He changed the flow of the game yesterday when he came on and we should make him stay if we’re not offered a reasonable transfer fee. He should start ahead of Tino who was poor yesterday.

If he does go, and I really hope he doesn’t Livramento has no competition for the right back spot, apart from Krafth, he changed the game when he came on, more energy, pace, urgency,up till then we were abysmal, slow build up, sloppy, horrible! I’m hoping it’s just a start of season blip, and we will improve as the season goes on. Willock and Barnes should start for me against Forest, for Longstaff and Murphy. In fact Joe could be benched after that performance, after the first game, when he got mom, he was terrible, and could have been sent off. Anyway 6 th and unbeaten so far when we haven’t been our usual self so, hey ho.

Another worry...because we don't have enough :D is that that's the second game in a row where a key player has made a stupid-and totally unnecessarydecision which risked or, in Schar's case, got, a red.

There's usually only one result when you put your head towards another player's head (yes, I know that twat should have gone for the same) and Joelinton took a huge risk pulling their 'keeper back the way he did.

Games are hard enough with 11 men and then there's the knock-on effect of being unavailable for 3 games.

Some poor decisions being made on and off the ball.

I’ll say one thing, a new signing or two this week won’t miraculously improve our performances. The players here and now need to ‘get their fingers out’ - it hasn’t been nearly good enough till now.