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Charly on Smallbone off. Mmm… 0-2 then.

Adams has so little positional sense for a striker - how the hell did he ever get to be the best striker in this league? Oh yeah, not playing this crap system.

Che never seems able to get in front of his defender. If he could he’d score more.

Oh look the muppet has actually put a first choice selection of players on.

That’s where the smart money is!

4 shots on goal. Not one shot on target with 56% possession. Relegation form. Horrible shitty football.

Just cannot believe we managed to get in at half-time just one behind. We’re not winning this game of football playing like this though. Dross tactics. Dross team selection. Delusional manager.

OMG - what a crock of utter shit this team is. RM can absolutely do one as far as I’m concerned. It’s getting worse not better.

There you fucking go - piss poor defending with opposition players all around them. They have one chance and score. Shit slow motion tactics…suicidal.

Charles gets some good chances, but always has poor directional control.

They’re gonna score soon - we’ve had 80% possession so it’s got to happen, probably just before half-time.

My word Smallbone is no athlete is he?!

We’ll I had this one down as 1-3 at best. With that team selection…0-4. Maybe worse.

If Warnock comes anywhere near the club I’m out. Can’t stand the tw@t.

More like he gave it everything he had and came up short. It was only a matter of time before he relegated us - in fact it’s not untrue to say he set us up for relegation, but that’s only because the Board faffed around so long giving him a long stretch of rope to hang himself.

Agree with the sentiment, but Ralph could barely get a song out of a squad of players twice as good collectively twice as good as the current batch of misfits.

How depressing that this thread is still going strong (yes, I realise I’ve added to it!). It’s a bit sad that JWP seems to represent the pinnacle of what we’ve lost in player quality and a sure sign of how far we’ve fallen.

I have very little hope that anything will change for this game. It’ll be the same group of players still struggling to successfully implement RM’s tactics and as Ipswich will be set up well, it will be another shambolic chaos resulting in a comprehensive beating. We’re slowly but surely losing ground on the league leaders and squad confidence must be rock bottom (again). We may score, but equally we may not, such is the inconsistency of our attacking prowess, however we’ll not score enough to win a game of football. 0-3 or 1-3 at best. Not long now before the fans turn on RM.

So sorry to read this Whitey…wishing your Wife, you and your family peace at a very distressing time.

Smallbone is at best just average…he’s grown into that level. And the trouble is that when we face 50% of the opposition in this league, he’s going to be worse than average as is the nature of average! Always expected him to be plying his trade elsewhere in L1 or below frankly, but clearly he’s an Academy product and so represents a small opportunity to get some money into the coffers when he’s sold when we’re relegated to L1. 😉

4 managers with four different styles?!? Give me a break. They ALL expected the team to pass out from the back and they ALL expected slow build-up possession based play moving forwards. There are differences in some areas such as the % press, but essentially the system has superseded the managers…i.e. SR want Pep style footie and they’ve tried to recruit ex-MCFC employees (and players) to deliver it. PS: unless you’ve missed the last 2-3 seasons, it ain’t working.

Ipswich are a very good side and on the showing so far, they will beat us with ease. 0-3.

Over simplistic tosh. You want simple…here we go…Martin does not have the quality of players at his disposal to play the style of football he wants and win games. Fact.

I think it’s debatable whether the individual players are of top 2 Championship level. There are 2 or 3 definite contenders. What is abundantly clear is that… (a) they are not drilled or playing as a cohesive team - that’s on Martin and his coaches. And, (b) they are not of a level to play the style of football being demanded of them to enable positive results. Whether Martin and Wilcox are living in cloud cuckoo land by thinking they can reproduce Man City in the Championship is questionable, but they’re going to break the club by trying.

Only managed to catch a few brief glimpses and then gave up at 1-3. One word review - shambles. Losing the love again and my prediction of lower table finish looks about right.