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Ivan Juric made a clear nod towards our lack of fitness when interviewed by Adam Blackmore after the game. His words were along the lines of having to work more so that we can compete with intensity after 95 minutes.

Aint that the truth!

So you didn't see that Juric had us looking like a proper football team and competing - maybe it's your penny that needs to drop. I get that we lost but that performance was night and day compared with Russball.

Aside from THB's howler, and he'll have to explain that one to his future father-in-law, we were ultimately undone by a lucky break that went Diallo's way for the equaliser and a brilliant ball from Eriksen - very fine margins.

Some harsh comments on here tonight mostly probably derived from the disappointment of having a possible 3 points snatched from us in the final 10 minutes. Come on, let's give some credit to the performance which for most of the game was very good and we deserved something out of it. There were some good signs that Ivan is getting to grips and considering he's been here a few weeks and inherited an extremely unfit squad I think he earns credit. We looked like a football team where everyone knew their jobs and it's a while since that's been the case. Our subs weakened us whereas Utd's generally made them better. Much to be encouraged about tonight and I got the performance but not the result as expected. Not convinced we shouldn't have been given a penalty when Sulemana's shot was blocked and reckon VAR would have given it if it was a Utd player having a shot blocked at the Stretford End. Great effort for no reward but more than enough to show that Ivan knows what he's doing.

Well played boys and well done Ivan. Score line was a bit of a travesty but much to admire about us tonight. Unfortunately the subs continually weakened us and not sure why Smallbone was brought on because he is too weak for what we needed. Some very good signs that we'll improve more and pick up enough points to beat Derby's record.

It was time to move on after 6 games.

Managed by Martin.

Because his teams set up to go backwards and sideways so Sulemana never had grass ahead of him to take players on with his pace.

Anyone still defending Russell? Shows what could have been. Ok, we may yet lose this but what a brilliant half that was. Well done Ivan!!!!

Result matters not a jot but we do need to see a decent performance.

Yeah, unless Ivan thinks he can get a tune out of him.

Listened to his press conference and thought it was like a breath of fresh air. Obviously he has a massive job on his hands to even get us competing but I liked what he said which is an improvement.

Must have been an awful winger 🙂

Not sure anyone can claim Wilcox is 'good at it' with nothing on his CV to prove it at senior level. He might well be but nothing proven yet.

Agree, I don't think it's a coincidence that this has happened after a new manager was appointed and has now had time to appraise the shit show he's inherited. If so IJ has said something that needed saying and we can only hope that major changes for the better are going to be made. This club has become a complete shambles so high time something was done about it.

Dragan proves he is no fool!

The best news about this is that a new DoF will be appointed. Hoping Dragan is taking advice from his football contacts to get this right. If he does so then things should start to improve significantly.

At last!

His time before being dubbed a clown is fast receding. Time he proved to us he is no fool.

Are these clowns still running our club. Get rid Dragan.

Result not that important but would like to see a performance to show we are moving in the right direction.

Along with most of the squad.

A very comfortable win and we played some decent stuff at times but really emphasises the difference in quality between Prem and Championship. We made some sloppy errors that would have been punished in the Prem. Sulemana played well....is this his level? Hopefully it'll give him some confidence.

Have you not been paying attention to the ineptitude of the clowns running our club? 🙂