Jack

Positive that last night should’ve given WS some selection headaches. The flip side is we’re 7 weeks into the season and nobody has a clue how best to set up, what our best side might look like or how we’re going to turn decent buildup play into a goal with our non striking strikers

Also apart from his touch, finishing and positioning. And workrate

Stewart must be really shit in training if Downs is getting the nod every time

The sequence leading to that goal, we’ve looked to play backwards when it wasn’t on about 3 times, with much easier passes forward or safely into the channels. What the fuck are we thinking. And Macca, put your fucking foot through it. That completely sums us up

Desperate for him to do well and we can’t keep sacking managers, but he needs to turn it around really fucking quickly and get the team at least showing some fight and basic competence. We’re absolutely disgracefully bad at the moment and getting worse

I’m by no means defending THB, he’s been fucking awful since promotion. Was just pointing out that Quarshie isn’t good on the ball from what I’ve seen

Quarshie - headers yes, but will also pass straight to the opposition. He was shaky as hell on the ball

Someone needs to tell Will that if you spend 3 working days walking up to halfway before trying to find your front 4, or you’re playing shit teams who want to sit in a low block, there’s not going to be any space in behind. We can’t keep sacking managers for being shit, but he is shit and needs to learn fast.

Just the league leaders next who’ll wipe the floor with us. £50m spent, can’t defend for shit, no goal threat, rotten

Mad, he’s been our best player this season. Most likely to score anyway

He’s been awful. Shit pass, shit attempt to win the header

Need 2 up top here asap. So many crosses to an orange shirt. Downs no good at all in the air

Successful crosses 0/12

We’ve completely lacked ideas all season, been very easy to defend against and not threatened much, and shit at the back. Fucking awful

Mads has been horrendous. Crossing opportunities and we just want to knock it to the CBs? Thought we wanted to play quickly into their third? Either WS is full of shit or his players aren’t doing as instructed

Manning can fuck off as well. Such a lack of brains

Dross

We’ve looked nowhere near as good as our team sheet at any point this season.

Yeah was saying this, WS really must not rate him. Unless Downs has been absolutely tearing it up in training this week. Hoping Jander has a great game in there with Shea, and they work out how to get the ball to the front 4 without punting it long

Boro have just been very effective. 1-0 wins against Sheff U and Swansea, 2-1 against Norwich and WBA. Draw with Preston and battered Millwall. Not strolling through games but they’ve worked out how to win, we need some of that starting today

And thank God WS has confirmed that his tactics aren’t to lump it forward to Archer. He now just needs to make the fans believe him when he says it

Doesn’t really matter if the corners are inswinging or outswinging when they never beat the first man. Would love to see us start attacking the underhit corner and try to flick it on, will be far more dangerous than letting the opposition spring a counter attack from our corners

Thought he was pretty poor. Sloppy in possession and his delivery wasn’t up to much yesterday. So many safe sideways passes and even they were underhit at times. Him and Downes were the most guilty of slowing us down I thought. Lucky for us Murphy was on the other side, he’d have had Manning on toast

Just watching it back, my god the first half was awful. With that front 4, what the fuck are we doing just pumping it long into the channels? I thought once Will got the creative players he wanted, we’d look to play through the lines? They’ve really let us down here and we didn’t deserve any more than a point. Referee was absolutely atrocious, again. But that’s every week in this league and can’t blame him for the result. We need to improve very quickly

Really hoping Jelert is good enough to come in and replace Manning as a starter. He’s decent enough if you’re well in front or chasing the game and need a goal, but quite likely to be the reason you were chasing the game in the first place