A couple of weeks back I was back in the UK to see my first game for 6 months since an awful 1-0 home defeat in March. I was looking forward to seeing the new team, the 5th or perhaps 6th in 4 years, but particularly because of the new policy and supposed style of football.
I saw the Ipswich 2-2 and then the appalling Barnsley 0-0. What upset me most was the lack of effort, aggression and passion in that game, besides just poor professionalism from all 30 guys on the field, refs incl!
This was after a big build up from the Birmingham game as well. Then we go and win 2 games when I am not there. 4 games unbeaten could easily have been 1 or 2 defeats instead, that is why I did not get carried away and was not in the least surprised when I watched the first half v Coventry in a bar in Bodrum.
How can you play a mere kid at left back in this League, with no midfield cover? We are so fragile and lacking in strength individually, as a team, and with no leader.
We have a surplus of midfield and strikers if you include all the injuries (how many more seasons must we use that as an excuse?) but where are the defenders FGS?!
Why can we all see it but those in charge are oblivious?
And then the apathy, the lack of spirit in our fans, so sad, it has been beaten out of us i have to say in the last few years with so many disappointments and sheer lack of entertainment.
But I keep on praying......