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The talk of Spurs looking at McGinn for 40-70m seems like the stuff of satire now.

Our mate Alvarez has made it 5 for Citeh. It's gonna be a bloodbath Saturday

Get comfortable, there'll be plenty more pages to come in this one.

Gerrard so tight and safe he wears two condoms.

When do the "sacked in the morning" chants start?

Saying that we're narrow is on par with commenting on how blue the sky is. Yet, our best play comes from the wide areas. Bailey is magnetized to the wing. Haven't seen shit from Digne. Ramsey anonymous, McGinn no better. Mings is trying his best but he's on his own, Konsa is a statue. Kamara must wonder where on earth he has landed. Watkins has as thankless a task as it gets, his isolation makes him seem less effective than he really is. Pitiful.

We're playing "the ball is lava" rather than football.

What I don't get is we are playing it out from the back, patterns exist in our defensive third and then we by-pass midfield and feed Ramsey/Gabriel/Lokonga with handy dockets.

Ramsey a passenger

Are there points for huffing and puffing?

McGinn has kicked the ball away and committed two fouls. He's trying way too hard.

20m Liverpool link today in the rags

At this point it's all down to Alisha.

Had results gone our way I'm sure the Mings/McGinn captaincy could be explained away more easily. Right now it sticks out so badly, I believe the cool kids call this a red flag. It has damaged the fabric of the squad, it devalues Mings as a leader and a footballer, it has upset the apple cart for a lot of fans and rewarded McGinn for his inconsistency. I've been thinking this morning what will my breaking point be? Is it shifting Luiz or signing Moura or the bad results or the lack of any clear tactics? I keep returning to the same thing. Taking the captaincy from Mings is the straw that broke this camel's back. Let alone the **** dross we see week in week out.

He deserves better! I believe affecting social change and advocacy are where his strengths lie.

His love child is available too!

Thomas Frank isn't just a good coach, like Potter he is a cog in a functioning machine. There is no way either would come to us for that very reason. While Villa are "more established", our off field design (joined up thinking) is very immature in comparison. Brentford and Brighton are run as businesses first and football clubs second. Speaking of projects, Lange's signings don't have any clarity to them. We signed loads of youths players which is great but somewhat contradicted by SG's will to sign "winners" with experience. You'd never see money spunked like that at Brighton or Brentford - even if they had it. Sky have fouled all football terminology by over using it, but Frank and Potter are parts of projects and it's very very clear. Potter is clearly the better coach of the two though.

How do you rate the squad over all? It's better than the points tally right? I personally took no notice of SG @ Rangers other than, they won the league. Fair dues though. It was really only upon him signing that it became clear to me that Mick Beale was the true architect of the SG footballing style. Now it's not down to Beale alone or Gerrard, but the tactical naivety and lack of structure feels like it is growing, not reducing over time. The "no pre-season" reasoning behind the spluttering finish to last season is now gone. The authoritative stamp of one's own transfers has come and gone. Diego Carlos' absence isn't the reason our midfield is exposed or our attackers lacking service. It's a bit of a snowball at the moment.

With a potentially catastrophic blind spot for SG.

It's the absence of tactics that is most worrying. The only thing that's clear is our lack of width. We're not disciplined enough to work that formation effectively. The patterns aren't there, the manager doesn't know his best 11 and rarely seems to effect the game. We're like United under OGS - moments FC. I think Lange and Purslow are trying to get this to hang on as long as possible, but they're steering us close to a relegation battle in the hopes of a few results. If he lasts to the World Cup I'll be amazed.

Dyche to Bournemouth

Is Ange Postecoglou a crazy enough shout? It'd be a nice balance, we could bring the city of Glasgow together in venom and fury. An olive branch of sorts! Hear me out - as a manager, he's won many many more trophies than Gerrard, I think Postecoglou has ~20 and has won the league at every club he has managed. Tell me he doesn't get more out of those players. You know you wanna see Kyogo smash one into the Holte from outside the box! Postecoglou also runs his teams with 6 & 8 dominating. Dream coach for Luiz and Kamara imo. Let alone the intricacies of the final third runs that are expected and made. People talk about Potter like he's the second coming, perhaps it's down to finally seeing what a well drilled and disciplined team can do. It takes time and patience to have such composure on the ball. Postecoglou's a way more realistic shout than Potter or Poch imo.