Jack

Yes Wood had a shocker last night, but he’s been generally good. THB barely jogging back for their first as they’re breaking, then just stands there 2 yards behind everyone else to play them onside for the 2nd. Kind of flukey goal I know but if he gets out then it doesn’t happen. He generally slows us down at every opportunity and doesn’t look interested to me, and has been that way all season.

Trust the process etc THB needs dropping again after tonight, and we don’t need 3 CBs anyway. Don’t really care, this season is a write off already.

Nice to see a sense of urgency here. Absolute cunts, all of them

Just so weak aren’t we. Look decent in short spells but absolutely shit the bed as soon as the opposition put a bit of pressure on. So easy to score against, so easy to defend against. Pathetic

Problem is we don’t have a half decent big powerful centre forward, so there’s no point playing your wing backs and fizzing in crosses 6’5 in the air for nobody to get on the end of. Surely it’s the manager’s job to realise your approach isn’t working and change it. Our only threat was Scienza getting on the ball and running at them, surely we’d have been better off getting either our new skilful 10 and/or new skilful winger on the pitch to try and create something through the lines, rather than leaving 5 defenders on the pitch with nothing to do. Second half was dross and we let the game pass us by. Unbelievable that we didn’t change anything. 2 wins from 10 - just squeaking past newly promoted Wrexham who are shit, and Sheff Utd who are joint bottom. Awful stuff.

Granted, but playing this shit 5 at the back hasn’t exactly got us winning, or playing well. Point is, the manager wanted to play 4-2-3-1 or something along those lines, complained that he didn’t have the players to do it so we had to endure his less preferred system, which also hasn’t worked. The club spent a fortune on players to fit his preferred system which he’s since ditched, dropped the players he wanted, and we’re still shit and failing to beat shit teams who will be in a relegation scrap. Setting up with three CBs has obvious flaws, especially against a side who aren’t even there to win. It’s madness to stick with it when it looks as bad as it did in the 2nd half today against a completely passive team there for the taking.

Home win

Still said we have to play this shit 5 at the back (not his preferred system), because he didn’t have a 10 or a winger. He’s got all of that, they’re quite clearly our best players, but we stick with this defensive minded boring bullshit against relegation fodder at home. Even with 70 mins gone and 0-0, he’s too scared to change it. Instead we have our prized winger thrown in at wing back. I know we can’t keep chopping and changing and I liked the way he came across, but the performances and results are fucking terrible and his excuses are wearing thin. He’s desperately trying to stumble across a winning formula more by luck than judgement and hoping it’ll come good, which it won’t. SR need to stop fucking about and being clever and employ a proper football person who’s been there and done it, will command respect, and put his best players in their best fucking positions and get on with it.

We need to get shot of SR before anything worthwhile is going to happen. People say Still Out and I agree, but they’ll only go and get another clever signing and try to reinvent football, and fail. We need a proper football person who knows what they’re doing, we’re sinking fast and happily playing out a 0-0 with 5 at the back against a side as shit as Swansea is criminal

Exactly. Baffling how little urgency we’ve got. Same every fucking week.

Before he was dropped he’d just get his head down and drive towards goal. Need more of that, no time for fannying around

But very very predictable. Got absolutely zero faith in Still

Deep crosses to our absent centre forward really aren’t going to work. Got to fizz it in low surely when we get high and wide

Surely we’ve seen enough of Downs to know there’s absolutely zero point getting him on the pitch unless we’re cruising and the game is won

Man for man we should be absolutely miles ahead of this lot. But we don’t seem to have any patterns of play or ideas how to create chances or sustained pressure. Boring as fuck and I feel like he’s just rotating the squad and hoping to stumble on a half decent way of playing

Every week. Sick of it

Scar tissue

Wrexham yes, he came on for a bit and scored a FK. Watford away, it was his defensive fuck up that gave them their first equaliser, that can cancel out his FK. He never gets close to stopping a cross, he’s the first to put a foot on the ball and slow us down, he’s slow, and clearly he’s unprofessional and/or stupid for walking to the lino for a chat rather than defending first. Not good enough IMO

What’s really doing my head in is we keep employing managers who seem not to see the glaringly obvious us fans talk about: Bazunu was never going to be good enough - it’s cost us points Manning can’t defend for shit - it’s cost us points Stephens is shit…. Downs is beyond shit… Arma can’t play up top on his own… Archer can’t play up top on his own… It all seems so obvious but takes a manager 2 months and shitloads of games without winning to work it out?

It’s the manager picking these individuals who continually let us down. Manning is utter dog shit who occasionally looks competent. Slows us down, can’t defend, doesn’t think. As for bringing Downs on, what the fuck is the point.

Downs is pathetic, awful sub. I’d have dragged him back off

He’s been directly involved in more goals conceded, from shit defending, than he’s scored. Couple of free kicks is no reason to persist with a shit defender IMO

Can’t defend for shit. Even if he’s right that’s so unprofessional

I fucking hate the refereeing in this league. That’s the easiest advantage to play on and book him later. Clown

Determined to concede here aren’t we. Shit at the back this season however we set up