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That right there is my big fear. We need 11 more points to prove we’re not.

We are so hopelessly out of our depth it’s terrifying.

Just ONE schoolboy lapse in concentration at an opposition FK from still being in the hunt for a point.

Worryingly I think that might be his thought process.

It’s a stupid unbalanced move if we’re being honest.

That’s what I’ve always understood good entertaining football to be, frankly.

Villa defended corners like us last week. No-one left on edge of box.

That is absolutely shockingly bad.

This post asks the question why and then provides the reason why.

TBF I don’t think what I said begs that question whatsoever.

Agree, he did alright. Ultimately I think we are improving quite rapidly but this league is so mercilessly difficult that I remain firmly of the opinion we won’t have anywhere near enough sadly.

Yes, which was kind of my point (as well as 7 minutes being an unjustified amount of e.t). Utterly gutting whatever.

Yep. If we’re being honest a draw was a fair result. Obviously gutting though, back to that familiar last minute goal against in the Prem feeling! There were positives, Fernandes, Dibling obviously, Ramsdale, others looking like they are growing into it at this level (THB, Downes), Sugawara looks like he belongs here, Stewart (in the bits I saw between fucking glitching streams) looked kind of capable(?), Archer at least had some decent chances and was a tad unlucky, esp for the first. To temper all that this is Ipswich at home, literally our most winnable fixture and it was a right old struggle.

Well that was infuriating. Virtually inevitable when 7 minutes went up which was fucking ridiculous.

Fuck the FUCK off.

7 minutes fuck off

Anyone got a working stream?

Yeah but none of those 9 goals would’ve been scored during the 70% of the match in which we had the ball so our tactics would’ve been proven to have worked for the significant majority of the match. Definitely on the right path here.

Yep. MOTM

Just don’t get it. Even if we’re determined to get rid wouldn’t it make sense to play him esp in games like this to put him back in the shop window? That’s before you take into consideration he’s transparently obviously better than at leat some of those being played in preference.

Just seen the highlights and fuck me that could very easily have been 6 or 7 nil and one of Utd’s ‘should’ve scored’ moments (a bad Zirkzee miss) was during the best half an hour of football we’ve managed this season. 2 of the goals were down to basic rank bad organisation. Stephens for the first - get the fuck out with the rest of the defence. THB for the third ditto but even worse if anything, 3 or 4m behind the rest of them playing their man on. Really really poor I’m afraid, and basic stuff. As for us 2 chances, a hopeless pen from someone who shouldn’t have been taking it (and looked like he very much knew that), and a well crafted effort from a 18 year old rookie who is proving to be our standout attacking force. Carry on like this and we’ve got some humiliating batterings coming our way.

YES

Thing is we could/should be but won’t (even if we do, which we won’t) because we have no goalscorers. All a bit depressing really, but tbh we all knew that in all likelihood we were going to struggle badly and so it’s turning out.

Can’t take chances lettuce leaf defence. This ain’t ending well.

The thing is the whole purpose of the playing it around at the back is supposed to be to draw and then beat the press and break on a team that are overstretched because their press has been beaten. But we’re way too slow to break when we do beat the press, and we regularly get beaten by it!