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Ankersen wasn't the brains behind Brentford it was the other guy whose name escapes me. He's still there but Ankersen left - no surprise there.

This! A young centre back clearly gesturing and imploring his team mates to find space and give him an option. That one moment summed up everything that is wrong with the way this football team is being coached. Considering RM's vanity project is meant to involve possession based football the fact that he doesn't seem to understand the basic concept of pass and move is frankly staggering. A football pitch is a huge area and 10 outfield players can't possibly cover it all - there will always be spaces to run into yet we have players who would rather hide and lurk in areas where they cannot receive the ball, the manager should be dealing with that. Watch Brighton who are as smooth and well-oiled a machine as you will see. Every player knows his role, his position, where to run which means they all know almost instinctively where a team mate will be at any given time. Compare that with our way of playing - it's all off the cuff, make it up as you go along without shape, cohesion or purpose. There are no partnerships, no patterns of good play and no signs that we are heading in the right direction but just need fine tuning -we are going backwards literally. Gone are the days when we'd lose the ball then hunt in packs to get it back as soon as possible. I have no faith that RM and his coaches can make this right so we're stuck with watching what we have seen in the past games. Boring football and many defeats. The fans deserve better but SR have proved themselves incapable of running things or making smart appointments/decisions.

The appointment of RM was clearly a mistake and now the fans once again have to suffer as he tries to prove that his project is going to work if we only give him time. I'm not sure how the club extracts itself from yet another mess of its own making. RM is a huge gamble because he has no track record to give him any credence so basically we have to just sit back and watch while his experiment unravels. He has just presided over 3 losses on the bounce, two of which were home games and the overall aggregate score was 1-10. Alarm bells must be ringing for SR but they are still paying Ralph and Nathan Jones. It's a pretty sticky situation and, the way we are playing, it's hard to see where the next win is coming from. Happy days.

How are you feeling?

Anyone else starting to feel really cheated? After dropping a division I had been looking forward to seeing lots of good football and wins from a well drilled team brimming with confidence. If anything we look worse than we did in the Premier League. Bad choices again I'm afraid.

He's not fit to lace Perraud's boots.

Some excellent points here.

It was marginally better but let's be honest Ipswich should have been 3-0 up at half-time. They let us off the hook.

Stuart Armstrong and KWP were the only two who looked like half decent footballers. I blame that largely on the set up and coaching because players are being made to look bad because of the system.

The best football we've seen has always been when we have an ultra fit team and press hard high up the pitch. To me that is the way we should be aiming to go. RM and his possession football is a complete waste of time and has zero chance of working.

The only tactical switch RM made was to cut out most of the inverted full backs nonsense. Sadly it didn't help him send out a side with any real shape, cohesion or sign that they knew and believed in what they were doing. I'm afraid as others have said RM is out of his depth and we've yet again made a complete mess of selecting an intelligent manager. Those expecting things to improve under his leadership are in for a disappointment from everything that I'm seeing and hearing.

It won't.

You make a very fair point. We were without shape or idea from start to finish. I'm not sure what RM and his coaches do on the training ground but whatever it is they need to be doing something different. We hardly troubled Ipswich who weren't any great shakes themselves.

Mid table is being generous from what I'm seeing.

RM hasn't got a frigging clue.

Half hearted.

Is it me or do our players only look half interested?

Adams misses his customary sitter,

Should be 3-0 if they could finish. They might not be so wasteful in the second half. Bring on Bednarek, move Charles into midfield and let's have a go at them. They are nothing special which makes it even more worrying at how poor we are.

Very very very poor.

Midfield not getting into space when our centre backs have it - HB is clearly pissed off.

Should be 3-0 now.

RM clearly trying to tighten up - the inverted fullback nonsense seems to have gone. However, we have no clue going forward so far.

Trying to give them another gift.

We are devoid of ideas.