Rayvin

Well look MBiwa has to get up to speed sooner or later, may as well be now. Colo is important but he isn't going to be here much longer anyway. I'd be more concerned if we lost Cabaye or Remy.

Hehe, yeah was a bad day for West Ham Cardiff too. I think that's all the important ones.

Could Cisse possibly be worse than Shola? The only contribution Shola had all game was winning a free kick, hardly any holding up. Also, Remy isn't bolted on to stick around, so we may as well look at our striking options afresh.

Precisely. I mean we have cover in this area but he's in such good form that it's a shame.

Yeah guess so! I'd like to think we're as good as Everton on paper, but I guess Martinez is a better manager than Pardew.

I was under the impression that flying two footed lunges were illegal. Am I wrong? Apologies if so.

Ah well, looks like we're coming 8th this year. Southampton got stuffed so we're still 6 up on them. We were never gonna hit the champs league places anyway.

To be fair, it was a red card all day. It was a mad challenge even if he did get the ball.

So unfair...Krul pulled out of that.

On the plus side, it's one I'd have us down to lose anyway.

We look knackered...

The number of potential injuries are starting to look worrying...

Can someone explain to me what happened with our subs there? I saw Yanga Mbiwa for Colo but who left for Haidara?

Er... ok so that changes things. Still don't think West Brom have it in them to win this, but we're not likely to get anywhere now either.

I dunno, I think I'd stick with what we've got now and just hope it pays off eventually. We've nothing on the bench really to shake things up with.

This is just one of those games where we're inexplicably rubbish isn't it.

Ah Ben Arfa for Gouffran - but they put Berahino on...

I like that approach for teams who are better than us, but West Brom are god awful. That was a waste of a half - we weren't even that good at containing them, they were just shit.

Sounds pathetic, his sending off today. Kicked out at someone for blocking his run. He's like 32 ffs, he should be able to contain himself.

Glad that's over with, maybe we can actually try to win the game next half.

It really is, but Pardew talking to Benny there gives me some optimism!

He's been entirely ineffective. Definitely a Ben Arfa game.

West Brom pressing us well. We string passes together but just can't quite work anything through.

We're giving away possession very cheaply here.

What about Benteke? The noise surrounding him has dropped off (largely because his form has) but I reckon he's still a good player, and also potentially the sort of forward we would need. Villa would be reluctant I guess but he's young and I don't think they could argue he should cost more than £12mill or so.