Stoke City (A) Buildup (Sun May 24th)

[McDermotX]

What's the point

[BobTheCharmer]

My team would be;

Jones
Manquillo....Toure.......Lovren......Enrique
Markovic.......Allen......Lucas......Sterling
Lambert......Borini


Let's go out with a bang.

[McDermotX]

Let a few lads have their last game alright......probably only Markovic, Dejan and Allen sticking around in that lot. Would like Lucas to stay, but its possible things are already in motion with his future.
Gerrard's LFC career ended yesterday, so I wouldn't have him figure at all - no-one wants to end their time in a place like ****ing Stoke, plus there's a high probability of yet another defeat.

[Buzzo]

A meaningless end of season game away at Stoke with the team being on a horrendous run of form... What's not to look forward to?

[Muddled]

Get some of the youth players in to the mix.

Give Sinclair a run-out up top, play Markovic in his favoured position and let's see what Can can do in midfield (Ithankyou). Pick an entire back four from our current U21 team ... pick anybody other than Skrtel and Lovren and let's play some players that have a future with the club. Anybody leaving can be left our entirely.

[G]

Get some of the youth players in to the mix.

Give Sinclair a run-out up top, play Markovic in his favoured position and let's see what Can can do in midfield (Ithankyou). Pick an entire back four from our current U21 team ... pick anybody other than Skrtel and Lovren and let's play some players that have a future with the club. Anybody leaving can be left our entirely.

Start as we mean to go on. Sakho starts and play youth around him.

[Shaggy]

Is Sakho still injured?

[G]

Is Sakho still injured?

He tweeted this week that he was back and ready to play. I was surprised he wants even on the bench yesterday.

[Bender]

Is Sakho still injured?

He tweeted this week that he was back and ready to play. I was surprised he wants even on the bench yesterday.

back in training but not worth the risk imo

[Norbs]

CBA with this one

[Fosterbloke]

Put out the U-21s along with Gerrard and Coutinho and let them have a go. Better than the utter **** so far.

[DannyMan2006]

Biggest game of our season.

And I'm not even joking. This is a massive must win fixture and if the players aren't motivated for this one I don't know what does motivate them.

If we lost this we could come 7th, which means our first competitive fixture would be a qualifier for the Europa League on July 2nd. Lovely.

[Fosterbloke]

Couldn't give a **** at all. I hate that. It feels like the game after our **** up against Palace last season.

[G]

Honestly can't see us winning this one so 7th is likely unless the others lose too and they'll know the importance of avoiding the qualifiers too. I think even 6th could end up in the 3rd qualifiers if Villa win the cup.

[DannyMan2006]

Worst case scenario:

We finish 7th and Villa win the cup. We qualify via fair play league and start back July 2nd, meaning some of the squad would have to be back well before then to get match fit. It's probably a poor side we'd play and would likely play the kids. But it disrupts their preparations too.

Best case scenario:

5th and we go straight to the group stage and our seeded, meaning we avoid any dodgy groups. It would allow us to play the kids in most ties and still allow us to qualify for the knockouts.