Alan McCafu

[cdbearsfan]

We do have another option at RB in De Laet, assuming he comes back to us after his loan is finished.

According to Transfermarkt, Antwerp have an option to buy. So his availability will depend on their willingness to buy him/ability to pay.

[Mister E]

It won't surprise me to see Traore being played in a more central role tomorrow with Penis launching long balls over the top of Terry or Chester for him to run on to.

If this happens, we might be best off with Bjarni in the holding MF role. Either that, or we engineer that TRraore accidently runs into Terry early on in the game.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think that whilst everyone appreciates Alan Hutton's spirit, maybe more could notice that he has also improved a great deal as a footballer. I think his overall game has just got better and better, and not just because he tries hard.

Totally agree with this Amfy

Absolutely. I was one who wanted rid of Hutton because his headless runs forward always left us exposed and he never seemed to listen as well as being hot-headed in challenges.

Since Bruce came in though, he's applied himself, rarely gets caught out, makes good challenges, doesn't lose his head and has been a top pro. Whether he'd be good enough for the Premier League I'm not sure, but he deserves another year I'd say.

I think he one one of a very, very small group that could hold him head high the season we were relegated. Since then he's at times, single-handedly, tried to drag our sorry carcass forward. This season Snodgrass has joined his attempts to fight and attack, the big difference now is Hutton is playing a more disciplined game defensively, maybe because he doesn't have the same cover on the left when he advances but as Amfy rightly points out, he's improved along the season and it's no surprise Bruce not only admires him but would love to offer him a new contract.

My guess is Newco Rangers will offer him a longer deal in the summer.

[Toronto Villa]

I've just read that a missing person's report has been filed looking for a young black man with rather stupid yellow hair and beard, impersonating a footballer with talent. Last seen in the pocket a bald white, tattooed Brazilian originally of Scottish ancestry.

[TonyD]

40,000 Alan Hutton  cardboard face masks for the 26th. 
Despite huge stick, he has been a proper club player.  Not the best player ever to wear our shirt but has been there through thick n thin.  We need to keep him if we stay down or go up.

[West Derby Villan]

40,000 Alan Hutton  cardboard face masks for the 26th. 
Despite huge stick, he has been a proper club player.  Not the best player ever to wear our shirt but has been there through thick n thin.  We need to keep him if we stay down or go up.

I'll have one please

[mr underhill]

Hutton was excellent last night and Adama was Adama.

[AsTallAsLions]

Hutton was excellent last night and Adama was Adama.

I know Adomah has been poor of late compared to his mid-season form, but my god am I glad we got rid of Adama Traore. Bar one or two little moments, I don't understand the fuss at all.

[mr underhill]

Agreed - the ultimate footballing charlatan and  media talk of him interesting PL clubs is totally barmy.

[AsTallAsLions]

Agreed - the ultimate footballing charlatan and  media talk of him interesting PL clubs is totally barmy.

He played for Barcelona don't you know

[Drummond]

He's also done well for them this season. He just came up against a better team in these games....

[chrisw1]

Hutton was excellent last night and Adama was Adama.

I know Adomah has been poor of late compared to his mid-season form, but my god am I glad we got rid of Adama Traore. Bar one or two little moments, I don't understand the fuss at all.

Well, he was dangerous enough for us to allocate a player to track him wherever he was on the pitch and double or triple up on him when he got near the ball.  That suggests to me he's pretty dangerous and certainly other players will have had more space because of it.  But yes, we nullified him which was down to Bruce's tactics and Huttons excellence.

[Pat McMahon]

Hutton was excellent last night and Adama was Adama.

I know Adomah has been poor of late compared to his mid-season form, but my god am I glad we got rid of Adama Traore. Bar one or two little moments, I don't understand the fuss at all.

Well, he was dangerous enough for us to allocate a player to track him wherever he was on the pitch and double or triple up on him when he got near the ball.  That suggests to me he's pretty dangerous and certainly other players will have had more space because of it.  But yes, we nullified him which was down to Bruce's tactics and Huttons excellence.

I think you are probably right.

He was their main threat so we were able to focus on nullifying him. If they had a couple of other dangerous players we would have had our resources spread more thinly and that could have been a different story.

This is my fear for Fulham - Mitrovic, Sessegnon, Cairney are all good players.

[mr underhill]

not as good as their Wolves counterparts and look what we did to them. We can do this.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sure I heard Adama has a combined 16 gs/ga in the league this season, so he's no mug. I love watching players like and I'd take a punt that barring injury he'll have a much better career than Albert. We did a great job on him but as has been said, we targeted him as their main danger and managed to nullify him, better quality around him (and not such a negative manager) and the space left from 3 players often going to Adama could have been exploited.