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A big risk offering Ayling a contract considering his age and fitness/injury record over the last couple of seasons. With Smith coming back, maybe, from a serious injury and Dilksreel on his way out we have to be careful we don’t end up in a situation where we start next season with no right full back. Better I think to bring in new blood and let Smith act as back up until it is clear whether he can continue his career

That is true but you missed out the last bit of your sentence”providing the club met their pay demands” and in the case of Giles “providing the club met Wolves asking price and onerous contract terms”. You are welcome TJ

RR do you not think that the injuries are down to the number of games we play, the players hardly ever get a chance of 7 days rest, which is what you need in professional football.

If you look at the last few performances it should be possible to improve to a point where we can challenge next season but we need to solve our frailty in midfield with Howsons replacement, somebody who could tackle would be nice. Another striker is essential but I have great hopes for LL next season. I have grave doubts about Engel his lack of pace makes him too vulnerable and the other full back place is down to whether we believe Ayling can keep going. Other places in the squad can created by releasing Greenwood and Silvera as I just do not believe they can achieve the level of this league

Silvera had a good slapping at half time now he is getting back to cover Engel, about time

Great game to watch but some of our players are so weak both on the ball and trying to win it back, we really are going to have to put some steel into this team next season

Jones and Silvera are just not getting back to cover their full backs leaving us wide open at the back, that’s how they scored their goal

What a leap from Lath, this guy is on fire

What midfield?

What happened to the five at the back that tightened up or defence, I thought that would be a certainty today

Whilst I would much prefer Ipswich to gain promotion this season, we have to be practical. For our prospects next season, it is preferable that the three demoted teams with parachute payments go straight back up. With only one season in the Prem the likely teams dropping out this year,(Burnley, Luton and Sheffield) would appear to be far more manageable from a financial clout viewpoint .

Respect to the team for coming out in the second half with a positive attitude when they could easily have crumbled after being overrun after 15 minutes. Credit to Ayling and Jones for keeping Philogene at bay also

Silvera has put more effort into closing down the opposition and getting back to cover Engel than Greenwood did the whole of the rest of the match, how does he keep getting picked

59% passing accuracy going forward in their half, there’s the problem and that’s why we have no control of the ball

From 15 minutes in they have battered us down the outside and we just cannot cope with them, Philogine being the chief tormentor. Carrick needs to change our formation or we have no chance of getting anything from this game,5 at the back and take Greenwood off would be my choice

I don’t understand, I thought she had a great game and never put a foot wrong

Somebody really needs to tell the Swansea management that you get points for scoring more goals than the opposition and none for possession of the football. Job done and I thought Ayling had a good game today along with Clarke yet again

I am so grateful I don’t have to watch Swansea every week their slow style of football is sleep inducing

Take Greenwood off and put Silvera on for half an hour, Swansea have a defensive setup that is perfect for him

Sleep inducing

We really need to sort out our the left side of our defence, Thomas is getting left for dead and there is no one coming back or moving across to cover

Struggling to see any logic in playing Thomas over Engel, one is our player the other isn’t,besides which I have seen nothing from Thomas that would leave me to believe that he is worth making the loan permanent

That game just about sums us up, with a proper strike force we really should have scored five or six, Wednesday we’re all over the place in the second half. It says it all really that we had to rely on two flukes to get on the score sheet

Transfermarket have now marked their valuation of Luke Thomas down from £12million to £8million, only £7 million to go then

We look so lightweight up top without McGree and Forss, if they had been playing today we would be three up I reckon