I agree with your evaluation of the game being full of negatives.

I too would go for Vela. I just think that he is a midfielder, plain and simple. You never know, he could add a little something to our game to help us out of the relegation zone.

I was suprised Vela didnt get his chance tonight, and ive heard good things about Blakeman too, its difficult to introduce them into the team now with relegation to battle for.

i said myself at the time we needed to sign a quality central midfielder in january to cover for what happened last season when injuries to holden and mavies crippled us.now with the sad loss of muamba and possible loss of pratley it is happening again.goodness knows why the money was spent on sordell instead and hes not even played.we are now left with a reasonably effective 4-5-1 system but now without the personel to man it. we are left with the choice of ricketts or ream to fill the holding role and move nrc into a more attacking position or go back to 4-4-2 which think coyle will go back to.maybe not v wolves but before the end of season.

To be fair, Elmander plays centre mid for Sweden.

And it happened because our hand was forced,

We had a choice of :

Elmander
Unfit Cohen
Unfit Muamba
Or unfit Gardner in centre mid last season due to injuries.

now left with unfit sean davies or centre backs/fullbacks or even wingers(petrov can play cm)to plug the gaps. i dont know why coyle did not play vela as he did not play the 1st 11 tonight at least we would have learned if he was up to this level or not.an opportunity missed i think.

Honestly couldn't care less that we lost!

I dont really think Vela not playing is an opportunity missed etc,

We shouldnt be pinning out hopes on an 18 year old who is yet to play a senior game at any level.

If he was good enough, he would be on the bench more often. But hes only there due to the fact we have so many injuries.

But i think this will happen in future:

Bogdan
Steinsson Ricketts Wheater Alonso
Miyachi ReoCoker Ream Mavies Petrov
Ngog

Alonso struggled, but im putting that down to lack of recent match practice and the fact hes still trying to gain fitness.

I think Ream has done well and we need to keep a 4-5-1 so he should start as the DM.

Alonso needs game time....he was nervous which is understandable. Ream should not be anywhere near our midfield. Put him back in defense and use Tuncay if need be. I agree with other posters about using some of the younger players....we rarely have games where we are 3 or 4 goals ahead to then bring on a lad for some experience. So it has to be done in regular games. Give Vela, Eaves etc 10 minutes at the end of the Wolves game.

My quick thoughts on the game.

Fantastic tribute again to muamba and the medical staff, coyle showed class and dignity by thanking the fans at the end. Well done.

However, after the lucky 3 points against blackburn (you have to admit we was lucky in the last 10 mins) I thought this was the worst, most gutless performance ive ever seen, yes we have lost by bigger margains but even at wembley last year we at least looked like we wanted to try! Yesterday proves how dire our squad depth actually is and how coyle is unable to set a team up to beat teams that attack us. Im not part of the 'lets forgive him for all the terrible signings, subs, tactics and sucky-uppy interviews because hes handled the events of the last few days really well' school of thought ,sorry im just not.

Its just humiliating when a tottenham steward has more possession than us in a ten min spell...even if your a confrence side never mind a premier league one.

Id even go as far to say they threw it, even at 2 nil down we were still passing back to bogdan or hoofing the ball in to pointless areas of space.

Sorry.

Benny... Sordel is cup tied.

I am worried hes gona turn in to another ward if im honest though...

Trig,

You've surpassed yourself this time mate, go and have a sit in a dark room because what you've come out with is a complete load of rubbish.

The performance against Blackburn was brilliant, and you say lucky? Blackburn were awful and there only threat was the long throw, why not say we controlled the game for 70 minutes, but Blackburn charges forward towards the end. Do you remember Blackburn having any chances in this final 10? No that's because they didn't.

we still dont offer much up front and always look like we will concede, alonso needs to come in to allow ricketts to play centre back

HH.... The blackburn statement maybe was a bit wrong.

However, you cant say you was happy with yesterdays performance though?

Also, im not blaming the prattley substitution as we were ghash before then.

I never expected us to actually win it, just look botherd.

Only player who looked the slightest threat was kev davies when he came on.

The first half when we had it we passed it around confidently but they were scared to get forward.

I wasn't happy with it, but we had an 11 that had 2nd string unfit players, Spurs had pretty much their strongest 11. It was a mis-match. Simple as that.

No I think we can conclude Eagles, Klasnic, Boyata, Knight definitely don't deserve a starting spot. I'll give Alonso benefit of doubt as he has been injured all season but for 3 games of which hea played well in and needs more practice.

You are 100% over-reacting. Man for man compare our teams together, each player is better than ours that played last night. Other than Reo Coker for Livermore perhaps. We did show fight, but it doesn't matter if you have tons of fight or none of it, if the opposition are better than you in all areas then they will play muh better than you.

I'd also say one of reasons Ngog hasn't scored many goals was evident last night, 451 means he's up front and stranded on his own.

We had Klasnic and Davies up top for a minute which meant they could link up, and TE former crossed for the latter to score. Ngog hasn't had that all season, 451 has shored up the team but it's taken all chance of scoring away from us aswell. We're left to hope something comes out of nowhere or we score from a set piece

Your missing the fact that he had two very good opportunities which he spurned. That's more the reason why he is not scoring. He is in no way clinical. Chances are limited but not none existent and ngog must start taking sone otherwise he is not good enough to play that role. Even skd returned +5 nearly every season. 2 is awful