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Our attempts to play out from the back last night were embarrassing. Slow and clumsy rather than quick and accurate.

He also rates Downs very highly as a footballer which is a worry.

Some watch birds for a hobby Captain Jack watches balls. In both the trick is minimum movement.

Most of the points you make are resolved by starting with a flat back 4. The 3 centre backs and 'wing backs' is the problem.

I'll explain it for you Osvalderamo. We had a keeper who gifted them a goal almost gave them another and gave away a stupid corner by holding the ball for too long. Aside from two goals scored by good individual play rather than decent football we created next to nothing. When leading 2-1 we completely surrendered and allowed them to put in wave after wave of attacks with all 11 players back. All in all it was a shambles resulting in a lucky win. This sort of useless football will continue until we ditch the 3 centre back system. We had two wing backs who were really part of a flat back five and our two midfielders were more defensive than attack minded so 8 defensive players and only 3 offensive. Jander when he first came played on the half turn but now he's started to play with his back to the goal and knock simple short passes back the way they came. Yes, it's a shambles.

Agree and it is embarrassing that professional footballers play in such a stupid way by doing the exact opposite of what they should have been doing. While we kept 11 men behind the ball and continually hoofed the ball to nobody in an effort to preserve our lead we should have had two players on either side of the pitch occupying the space between our penalty area and the half way line. This would have allowed us to clear balls towards them and have a chance of relieving the pressure plus QPR would have had to put players on them rather than knowing they could throw everyone forward without risk. As game management it was about as wrong as you can get but then we are a very poor team.

We'll not kick-start the season or improve pretty quickly until someone realises it's way past time to ditch this horrendous 3 centre back system.

Yes, forgot that gem.

He could have played the last 15 mins poised to pounce on the half way line and their defenders could still have pushed right up without worry.

What you mean the little German black book with Damion Downs on page one with a large tick next to his name? Again he came on tonight and could not have looked less like a footballer than Alan Carr.

Agree, nothing to celebrate there and should be looking at the bigger picture. Tonight was papering over cracks.

This shit will continue until a manager comes in and decides 3 at the back is not the way to go.

New manager is going to need to be a miracle worker to sort this mess out. Total shambles tonight even though we won.

It was as bad or maybe worse than we looked under Will Still.

Not to mention skill, pace and power.

Looks like he's towing a caravan.

Agree. It was just everyone back and try to get hold of the ball and launch it. Not surprisingly it came straight back every time.

Panic you mean 🙂

What a fucking shambles right down to Bazunu holding the ball too long and conceding a corner. This is not a football team. Very poor performance again and we totally failed to manage the game after taking a two goal lead not least because Bazunu gifted them a goal. Total shitshow this side.

Almost certainly.

At least Will had the sense to drop him.

Bazunu being Bazunu. Wait for the panic now.

Here we go. Didn't take long. Where was Baz?

We did another goal after a good move. Cracking goal from Scienza 🙂

We had a shot and did a goal 🙂