Millenniumram

He was imo the best all round player in the division a few years ago and I'd have loved him here then. Now tho, he's turning 31 And there's question marks over his attitude. Not sure where I'd stand over this, on a loan spell I'd probably be happy enough for him to provide competition accross the attacking positions if he's over his personal problems. On a permanent though he'd cost too much imo for it to be worth the risk at his age, would be better investing elsewhere. Doubt there's anything in it mind, probably villa just trying to drum up the fee from Sunderland who are getting quite desperate now.

After bairds performance last night?! I rate the bloke but aside from a couple of passes near the end he was very poor, wisdom was much better against Kaiserslautern- albeit playing in a better 11

Always seem the same, new signings are always judged harsher than existing players. I tend to look at it the other way round, be more lenient to new signings while they settle in. Prolonged periods of poor form for players who've been here a long time I criticise more, there's no excuse for Russell's appalling year last season, even with the team playing so badly you've gotta do better than he has. I mean look at vydra, much maligned last year but he scored 3 times as many goals as Russell, with a lot less minutes I'd wager. It's all cause the new signings cost more money, people need to understand that's the market now and not expect the players to be world beaters straight away or hold the players accountable for their inflated price tags.

This, if Weimann had put in the same performances he'd have been hounded out of the club

Really?! Why didn't someone say?!

Ahem but they were good in 2013....

Decent team but have to ask the obvious question, what in hell has Russell done to deserve being in the team ahead of Weimann?!

That sums our night up

If anya had any brain cells, he'd have crossed for that chance

This is why we struggle when we get injuries, our back up players are fookin s****!

I must have missed when Baird morphed into Kieron freeman, what's up with him tonight?!

Disjointed team as expected, lets not forget this is only really the second string team trying to win their places. Still created a few good opportunities mind, Nugent is doing well apart from that Miss, as is Bennett

Think on Davies, Olsson going walkabouts all the time as usual ain't helping

Have to say, don't think Hanson will ever make it. Made far too many easy disjointed passes so far

Pretty sure Davies usually plays LCB