Jack

It could be argued that the “massive rebuilding job” was going moderately successfully, if we hadn’t throw away so many points by the outrageous commitment to a tactical approach that clearly isn’t fit for purpose with this squad. People aren’t arguing that it was going to be tough, and our squad could be better, but we’ve given ourselves absolutely no chance and the season was a write off by November because of your mate Russell’s vanity project and stubborn obsession with fucking about at the back for no gain. We’ve made a difficult job absolutely impossible by sticking with it, and him.

Russ turning on the fans won’t end well, never does. How does he think he knows better when we’re on 5 points and will be at Christmas? How about the pissing about at the back that very nearly led to us conceding just before their goal. And how about zero chances in 90 mins because we refuse to shoot or cross in favour of keeping the ball and doing nothing with it. Russ and his shit philosophy are killing this club

#Brave

Even when we get up into the final third, we play tippy tappy triangles before giving it away. Might as well get the ball in a dangerous area and give it away that way, as at least it might come to something. No shots, no crosses, no points. Martin Out

Dull as fuck. Pointless possession over chance creation, shots, crosses. Risky possession in our own box. We’ve looked ok in possession at times but it’s worth fuck all, no idea how to create a chance

I reckon Taylor has been outspoken about the lunatic tactics, no other reason RM would’ve played everyone but him including players out of position. Taylor has been in relegation fights so will have a better idea what it takes to compete than most of them. Maybe he’s questioned Russell’s authority and paid the price.

It’s become part of the blueprint of beating us. Blow smoke up the manager’s arse in the hope he doubles down on the lunatic tactics, gifts them a couple of goals, and walk away with three easy points.

Having small and quick strikers is exactly the reason TO get the ball forward quickly, into space. Not 30 passes on the halfway line, allowing opposition to regroup and then maybe a cross into the box won’t cut it, but giving them something to run onto might

Yep, was plain to see from last season that we’d be horrendously exposed playing like this in the Prem. Leicester gave us a great insight into how it’d play out, and we haven’t learned a thing. Ridiculous situation.

Surely if you’re not blessed with the best centre backs, you don’t base your whole philosophy on them having as much of the ball as possible?

4-0, minimum

Fuck me, should be 4

I’ll rephrase, decent at times. We haven’t been able to be decent or show that we’ve improved, across a whole game, all season. We look decent in patches and then shoot ourselves in the foot trying to be all brave

Yes, 1 point from the previous 2 games is a serious uptick in form. Problem is, far too often we’re left talking about a decent performance and/or ‘real improvement’ without any points to show for it. Which really equates to fuck all as we haven’t got a clue how to beat the other shit teams in the league.

Wolves are a decent side, they just had a horror run of early fixtures. Bit inconsistent but I don’t think they’ll be in too much trouble, they’ll beat enough of the teams around the bottom 6

Real shame Big Les couldn’t fill the void we’ve got in defensive midfield but he looks shite

The ‘U’ shaped one with our strikers stood next to the linesmen was my personal favourite

Maybe not a bad thing that all these suspensions are coming for the same game. Damage limitation with the B team and go again at the weekend

My go at fixing it for you

Well put, pretty much sums it up for me. Doubt there will be a shortage of spares knocking around for this, it’s hard enough to get motivated to show up at SMS, let alone trekking to the middle of nowhere somewhere outside Brighton to watch it

He’ll get the decision made for him eventually. The pundits call it out every week, the commentators call it out every week, the fans have been calling it out before we even got promoted. Who the fuck is Russ to think he knows better than the wider football world.

Problem we’ve got is that the next three home games he’s got the mitigation that ‘it was Chelsea/Spurs/Liverpool’. By the time the crowd has really turned in games against WHU and Brentford, we’re into January where relegation will be a mathematical certainty rather than just a certainty.

Comfortable defeat, having learned absolutely nothing from the manner of all of our other comfortable defeats. Russ to tell us that we’re still growing.

Against good teams we play ok, concede shit goals and ultimately lose. Against shit sides we play shit, concede shit goals and ultimately lose. So frustrating. We look solid enough defending in that low block. And look decent at times playing forward on the break. We look absolutely fucking abysmal playing possession football in our own half and that’s why we lose every week.