[wba_1996]

Missed the game bar the last 10 mins so can't comment on the performance. What I will say though is having a player sent off in the 2nd minute away to Man City kills the game as a contest. I agree that the starting line-up looked appalling but that is what you get after 2 seasons worth of failed transfer windows and a bunch of injuries and suspensions. The squad is poor, lacking in depth and Pulis had his hands tied in terms of selection today. Bar Poco and Mulumbu in for Olsson and Baird he couldn't have done anything differently, and we still would have lost.

As I have been saying since Irvine was sacked, we need to limp to the end of the season with what we have got and rebuild in the summer. If people think last summer was a mass turnaround, this summer we will be even more active. Bar Saido I honestly wouldn't care if any one of the current squad was let go. MINIMUM of RB, CB, LB, RM, LM and ST needed - and that is before considering outgoings.