Stoke

[Dreamkiller]

3 wins in 20 for Nathan Jones. He must be under some pressure PK?

P.s. The ground looks good with the corner gaps now filled in.

If he's not under pressure from the board, he massively is from the fans now. We all know this is meant to be a longterm project. Problem is that we've now had nothing but shit for three and a half years, so patience isn't something in large supply at the moment.

The fabled Jones diamond needs specialist wingbacks with lungs of steel. He's tried to convert McClean on one side, who as with everything he does, fulfills half of those attributes, and has replaced fans favourite Tom Edwards on the other side with the inferior Tommy Smith. So we now have too ineffective players filling the most important roles in the team.

So we spent 70 minutes flayling around hopelessly with an attack consisting of Afobe resembling a bag of cement alongside our 'ox' in the box, Vokes. We then replaced them, ditched the diamond, brought Ince on, played with two conventional wingers, and voila, we spent 20 minutes battering them and looking miles better.

There was also a blatant handball which should have provided us with a penalty in extra time. No one ever uses that as an excuse anymore though as we're as threatening from a penalty as we are from a goalkick.

Looking at your squad DK I’m really not sure how you’ve managed to spend quite so much money, and still end up with such an unbalanced side made up of ageing journeymen and lacking pace and invention.

You look to have assembled a squad of big, burley units who can muscle and huff and puff but not a lot else.

Your wage bill must be giving the Coates children sleepless nights too... quite how you still have Imbula, Wimmer, N’Daiye, Berahino, Martins Indi, Diouf, Bauer and Bojan kicking around I’m not sure!

Why are we unbalanced? Joe feckin' Allen.

Big burley units? Yep. Muscle? Ha. My little 'un could bully 'em.

The money spent? Those first 4 names cost us around £53m. Many other wastes of money are available to view in our squad, but at least they get the odd game.

Disaster is just too lame a word in footballing terms.

On the attendance, I hadn't actually seen the figure, but August in particular always gives massively inaccurate figures because so many season ticket holders (who are counted as being there) are away on holiday. There are four of us who usually go. Two of them were missing yesterday for that reason. Our guess was 20k actually there.