Jack

Even if we were in the habit of scoring loads of goals, keeping loads of clean sheets, and winning games comfortably, then I’d still say we’re not going to be going on a winning run like that

Riding our luck here. Calamity goalkeeping from Baz

1-1 81% possession 2 shots on target “Bravery” and “Great unbeaten run” mentioned in interviews

Well I’m glad Russell is happy to see us concede shitloads of goals as long as the possession stats are good. Because I’m fucking sick of it.

Exactly. If starving the opposition of possession meant keeping clean sheets and scoring enough goals to win most weeks then bring it on. Sadly we’re far from being good enough to achieve that but the manager won’t acknowledge it

Talking about it on the long drive back today, we reckon it’s not a very strong league but we’re still making a dogs dinner of it. Ipswich aren’t even that good but pissing it by being effective enough and defending properly. We’re definitely asking too much of some limited players, because we’re hell bent on playing a certain way. Absolutely shambolic defensively and we can’t keep relying on injury time for points

On the train on the way back to Manchester. Absolute garbage after going 1-0 up. Not a chance we’ll challenge at the top end of the league. The spine of our team is far too weak and last minute goals for points will dry up - reckon we’ll finish around 10th without a serious challenge for playoffs

Wednesday Plymouth Sunderland Boro Stoke Hull Preston Over 3300 miles That’s a pretty ridiculous run in terms of travel. 3 of the next 5 are inside the M25, plus Coventry and Huddersfield.

Happy to have been wrong on this one, very decent performance. Nice surprise to see some end product from Sulemana and great to see Stu get a start and play well. For me he was really important, always looks to get us moving forward rather than backwards and into our dicking around at the back/conceding shit goals mode. On that, we were lucky to not get punished for dicking around at the back a few times, still something to work on. Would love to see us go after a new CB with some physical presence in January, we could be a lot more commanding on set pieces and height in the squad in general

Southampton nil, Leeds several. 5 defeats on the spin and the same old excuses from RM

How are Smallbone and Fraser getting the nod after Tuesday? Edozie is being hard done by there and looked like one of our best options. Experimental at the back too, he better hope it works

Managers who bullshit the fans generally don’t last long. He claimed we were decent after the Leicester game and that there was no issue with the system tonight. Absolute joker. Get rid

Pros: Only conceded 1 Cons: Absolutely diabolical from the team sheet to the final whistle. Dire tactics, wrong personnel, no desire, no plan B, stupid mistakes. I have zero faith in Martin to turn it around, wrong man for the job.

I’m expecting Martin to keep to his word and deliver improvement, only conceding 3 this time. Saints 1-3 Ipswich

Absolutely not the right man for the job. Too many fundamentals missing. Hell bent on being a 2 bob Man City and it’s not going to work

Bazunu is going to cost us so many goals. Brainless passing out from the back when it’s not on

Absolute fucking shambles

Defences operate far better with a trusted and commanding presence behind them. We haven’t got that. But he’s not helped by the fact that the defence are full of mistakes too.

Our set up was horrible for the counter for the first goal with 11 players in the final third but so many individual errors for the goals: 2nd - Stu bottles the tackle and turns his back on it 3rd - Baz near post 4th - Holgate double howler 5th - Downes doesn’t even get off the ground to challenge the header

Some would say it’s been coming. We’ve been largely unconvincing and needed injury time for the bulk of our points, and we were lucky to get a draw out of Norwich which was our toughest test. Lots of changes yes but you have to get the basics right and we haven’t, kamikaze defending

Could be that. If KWP had followed across the near post into JB’s space then there’s another man at the back post completely unmarked.

Turgid pedestrian shite. Our best sign of a chance is KWP buying another penalty

How was Manning so highly thought of? Awful. No urgency from us and we haven’t at all played like we’ve got a centre forward on the pitch

• we can’t defend • we haven’t signed anyone • we are shit • we will fail to win • some dross about Plymouth being amazing • some dross about Exeter fans