Jack

Should’ve sacked Martin far sooner. It was so clear that he was wedded to the suicide football no matter how many we were getting beaten by, absolutely no desire to be a bit more pragmatic even if it would’ve given us a fighting chance of staying in games. We were down before a ball was kicked that season, the arrogant prick thought he’d just fail upwards from his time with us.

We created several golden chances because we’re a far better side than Bolton. We started with a really weird lineup that clearly limited us, hence Tonda ditching it halfway through the first half. Against West Ham he went back to putting our players in their obvious positions - Azaz as a 10, wingers in their correct positions, not having a right winger at left wing back, and it looked far more natural with the players knowing their roles. It could easily be argued that Tonda learnt something from Bolton and reverted to a more obvious and uncomplicated setup at West Ham, and I hope he does the same against QPR

100%. Get Saturday won then worry about Tuesday later. As others have said, maybe the Bolton game was a bit of a wake up call for Tonda - don’t fuck around trying to be clever, stick your best players in their best positions and let the opposition worry about us.

Their away form has been pretty good this season. Wins at Pompey and Blackburn, draws at Charlton, WBA, West Ham, and just one defeat last time out at Birmingham. Sure we’ll fancy it with our home form but won’t be easy.

He set a very high bar, it’s unfortunate but his finishing has been lacking this season and he’s been pretty wasteful with the ball. Put us in the shit a few times today when he just needed to hold onto the ball or hoof it long to let us get out. But yeah he’ll be fine

That’s how I see it, next goal is absolutely massive. If they get it I feel we might just sit back and struggle, if we get it then we’re out of sight

Scienza has been dreadful. He’s supposed to be an outlet and has given it away every time in our half

Dropped far too deep. Need to get on the ball and get up the pitch

We’ve lost our heads and the superior squad have woken up. Don’t think there’s much tactically

Eurgh sloppy now. Need more composure

Careless from Leo. Need far less of that

My word what a hit. Hint of offside but we’ll take that after Bolton. What a strike

Got to keep offering a threat, so much space in behind them. Can’t sit on the 1-0, they’ve got too much quality

Very brave and tactical genius from Russ to get his side a 90th min equaliser away at Luton. The players have let him down to then concede a 90+4 winner, that’s on them.

Draws against two newly promoted sides and defeats to Watford and Wrexham are really poor results if you want to be around the autos, especially with -4. Means we have to pick up wins against the other autos chasing sides to stay in touch. Swansea was a great result and performance, need another today.

100%. Teams have done ok at West Ham when they’ve gone there and got in their faces, we need to do the same. Don’t show them any respect and get the crowd on their backs

Need a high energy performance today and there’s plenty of it on paper there. Really need Downes and Larin back and fully fit ASAP

Oh I’m fully aware I’m doing him a disservice, it’s for many reasons. He plays for Boro, he’s a tap in merchant, he thinks he’s hard, and I want our #9 to be putting up numbers like that, not him

All but one have been a tap in from 6 yards, or offside. Fair play to Boro really, they’re making glorious chances for him. I think I’d have put most of them away

Bazunu actually having a good game, nothing he could’ve done about the goals conceded and 2 good saves

Said this at the time, if we just played our way and let them worry about us, sure we’d have battered them. Too much fannying around. We should’ve won regardless, but looks a really poor result now. Boro all over them

Peretz Bree Jack Schlott Welington JWP Jander Bragg Azaz Larin Scienza Fully expecting Tonda to do something other than an obvious 4-2-3-1 with round pegs in round holes for this one, and assuming Downes won’t make it wearing his space boot. Azaz and Scienza to drop in to look more like a 4-4-1-1 when we needed. I’d be inclined to go with Welington in this one as he’s a better defender and we’ll need to keep Bowen tightly marked, reckon he’ll have Manning on toast. Probably miles off with that guess, just hoping Tonda ditches the lop sided three left back formation we saw against Bolton. Could be anything.

Such a frustrating game. 3 sitters missed, a stonewall penalty not given and a shitload of dodgy offside calls that disrupted us. I didn’t think we played that well and some weird tactical bits from Tonda, but we should’ve still comfortably won. Matsuki’s through ball to Dobbin was a peach and he has to slot that in. One of those days

We were shit, but that’s a fairly comfortable win if the referee gives the most blatant handball you’ll ever see not given. Absolutely shocking performance from him and his linesmen who got nothing right. But, Bree should score, looked easier to score than miss. More weird fucking about from Tonda, trying to be too clever. We didn’t get nearly enough shots off against a shit side.

Yep, and also that Burnley are worse, when people thought they might be turning things around