Jack

I don’t think it’s entitlement, I think it’s just clear that we’ve got a superior squad to the opposition most weeks but still often makes a complete balls of it with the same mistakes. It’s out of frustration, we should be doing better than we are with the resources available and how the games have played out

I don’t know what the question is but the answer certainly isn’t Stephens roaming from left back into central midfield and getting in the way. He’s created a problem that didn’t exist. Russ thinks he’s clever but he’s really hurting us. Square pegs in round holes again and more dropped points against inferior opposition. It’s not even surprising that every game there’s a new experiment gone wrong but it’s fucking ridiculous. He’ll get a shot at taking us up via the playoffs but I don’t want to watch us do all this again next season with inferior players

90 seconds left and we’re still going backwards and sideways instead of getting it in the box. Absolutely fucking dreadful. The whole system and mentality stinks and that’s on Russ

Stephens just getting in the way when he wanders into midfield. Absolute nonsense

Absolute garbage. We slow it down far too much to ever trouble their defence and look a threat

Comfortably miles off the top 2 is underachieving with this squad and its potential

Are you saying he’s got nothing to do with how we play?

This is so so dull. No intensity, no pace, no desire. Movement off the ball is poor, no runners, nothing. Fuck off Russell

Boring, tepid, ineffective shit

I detest this talk of how the points total would’ve been good enough in previous seasons. The standard outside the top 6 is really poor, and it was last season which is why Burnley and Sheffield Utd pissed it. The pissed it and have still hugely struggled in the Prem. There’s loads of dross in this league that we should’ve beaten but haven’t, and that’s why we’re out of the autos race

1-1. We limp on

95% short pass completion

He doesn’t produce many genuine howlers, he just doesn’t ever really save anything. Most shots that come his way seem to go in, even if they’re not really in the corner. It’s concerning

He’s lost the plot for me. Overcomplicating it for no gain whatsoever. Play your fucking full backs at full back, your centre halfs at centre half, and your best players for those positions. No way that KWP gets done for pace and gets a red card, and he probably gets closer to their man in our RB position for their winner. Stu was done after an hour but he couldn’t see it, Bednarek was clearly injured and we already had 2 CBs on the pitch, why not get KWP on for Janny B and go to a normal back 4, really bizarre game management. I wasn’t at all shocked to lose it from there, you could sense it was coming.

Chronic lack of bottle. Chronic lack of finishing ability. Chronic lack of defensive shape. Absolute twats. Sick of us being so much better and bottling it. One point from this weekend is absolutely shambolic given how the games played out

Anything other than a win and we’re completely out of it, even for the most positive here on here. We’d be 13 behind Ipswich and a minimum of 8 & 9 behind the others, likely far more. We’re just not showing signs of being capable of putting the huge run of wins together that we need

They cross the ball very early and from deep so our full backs are going to need to be on it and at them quickly. Definitely not a game for Manning (like every other game). Wouldn’t surprise me to see us concede similar goals to yesterday, but could be an entertaining one if we find our shooting boots

Far too many shit 1-1 draws in that run, which was overrated because of that. Kind run in too.

We’ve had SIX 1-1 draws this season, we were leading in 5 of them and the better side in all of them. Even with the stupid/unexpected defeats, that’s the difference between autos and playoffs

Nobody in the middle there. Lacking intent to get a second

Che demonstrating more of the finishing that got us relegated

Bit lazy from Che there to never get back onside

Sulemana off for someone who may have a chance of showing some end product please. Downes carrying a knock by the looks of it

I’m concerned that Russ has now had 3 more weeks to work tactically on Captain Jack’s free role. Expect more marauding runs and nobody else having a fucking clue where to be

What’s wrong with Stephens playing CB when out of possession and CM when in possession, and THB playing RB out of possession and CB in possession, and us using a statue of Ryan Manning at LB instead of an actual football player? Some people need to manage their expectations IMO