BotleySaint

""I've compromised my principles because of personnel and the way people want to play. Sounds like Jones is trying to say he wasn't on board with the new signings and is being forced to put them in? Not sure.

Can see this being called off. Why is Jones still here is the only question worth considering. Unless he's gone by then.

I know the feeling. We've been so poor for so long. We've broken every crapness record there is. We are a laughing stock. But whilst we may go down, we might come back up. No reason to think we'd stay down. And along the way, hopefully jetison some of the crap and set some new positive records and try again! Things will change. Hang in there.

When they finally ditched Ralph I thought the season could be saved. A new manager would be brought in and had a fairly easy run of results to start with, playing teams in and around us at the time. Never imagined they'd appoint Jones, which was immediately a joke - followed by the infamous mic'd up training session - and that it could go quite so wrong. What were they thinking?

Time to get rid. Instill a caretaker till end of the season, then get a new man in over the summer and rebuild in the Championship. Jones remaining here is toxic and is only going to do more damage.

Can't really judge him based on coming off the bench with us 2-0 down and basically no tactical plan for the game. Any player would struggle in our team.

Don't kid yourself. This seasons over.

Has to go after today.

We were poor under Ralph. Somehow we are even worse under Jones. Despite new signings. Time to go.

You would think Jones will go if it stays like this. Time to admit the mistake

Granted new signings need time to bed in. But given our position I don't think we can afford them that time. We need quality out on the field right away not the same poor players again and again.

Win games and NJ will be ok and we'll stay up. Continue to lose and NJ will not be ok and we'll go down. So, if we lose the Brentford is that his time up then? Or do we keep waiting till the next league defeat? I actually hope we beat Brentford... even if it means he stays. Just want us to stay up.

If only Jones would say that in his post-match interview.

I think Ralph had to go. But I also think if he had remained, we'd be better off under him now. We didn't need to keep Ralph, but we needed to replace him with someone better than Nathan Jones.

This is the problem he has. He went for the "comfort blanket" approach. Thinking if we have enough bodies back there, we'll survive the initial enslaught. But in the end it just invites pressure and mistakes and resulted in 2 goals conceded. The opposite effect. Just shows such a lack of tactical nous, a low-league management brain at work. That kind of thinking doesn't work at the higher levels. We need a manager who isn't afraid to play a back 4 and can motivate, train and instill discipline in the players so that we don't have to rely on this "strength in numbers" approach of his.

Chances missed. But in truth barely anything gilt-edged was created for the last 15-20 mins.

Hold on there, you don't mean that last bit But I understand the sentiment.

It's still not too late to admit they made a mistake and get someone else in. But need to act faster. Can't see it happening though 😒

I've missed most of the game but it sounds like we threw it away in the first half because of a bad formation/team pick. Frustrating Jones.

I think you answered your own question there 😉

Got to be about 7-8 mins added time now.

Unfortunately, we already are and we are just no threat. Remember we lost to Newcastle who had 9 men before.

Awful tackle. Had to go.

It's frustrating. If we were just a little bit better.... not quite so dull. But, we are barely a threat.

Not over if we can just get another back