Because we have no long-term plan, instead we spend big as we lurch from disaster to disaster and fail to create a deep and well-rounded squad. We're tossing out 55K p/w to the likes of Schlupp and Riedewald, whom nobody will take off our hands.

Our failure to sort out the striker position isn't through a lack of money invested - we're paying around 300K p/w for our 4 strikers, having paid nearly £50 million in transfer fees - it's down to terrible scouting and transfer business. We are the experts at getting mugged off.

Which then brings us back to even if we had that cash injection, would you trust the current decision makers to use it effectively ? I wouldn't.

Old, Ungifted and White

So the board are trying to improve the squad with quality? Our first eleven will give anyone including the top 6 a good game, our bench should be improved but bringing in the likes of Ayew, Kouyate and Guita were supposed to do just that - Ayew is pants but we all thought 'decent signing' when he came in.

After a great performance against Burnley, we came up against an in-form Brighton side who rarely concede and have a striker in Murray that will score 15+ goals this season - no suprise on the result, on another day we could have done better but this is the premier league and if you don't show up you get beat.

We lost to a better side on the day, we move on to West Ham. This constant blame game after a poor performance is getting so boring.

Agreed to an extent that on the day our first eleven will be competitive. We played well against Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd and for an hour - against Chelsea. Total return - 2 points.

But it's against the likes of Burnley, Southampton and Brighton where we should be mining our points, and so a performance and a result such as Tuesday night's is always going to provoke a reaction. 0-3 down at half time to 10 men, and no changes from the bench because there's nobody on it to make a difference. 1 decent performance in 3 against that group is not good enough.

Let's not forget recent history as well - a year ago we had no recognised central striker. Our back up goalkeeper at one point was a player that had made a handful of appearances at League 1 level. And that's in our 5th year of being a Premier League club.

We have the 9th highest wage bill which we are servicing on a restricted income. The squad is liberally sprinkled with players that simply aren't good enough at this level.

I don't have confidence in the infrastructure of the club from the CEO down to the Head of Catering.

There seems to be nobody capable of stepping back and planning for anything other than the short term.

Old, Ungifted and White

Sorloth is reputed to be one of Roy's buys

I think as we've done before, us fans are going to have to play a massive part in getting the club out of this in the 2nd half of the season