Pretty much everyone was poor today for us, as I think the best players we had were the likes of A.Armstrong, Stu and Che, as they created absolutely nothing, but at the same time didn’t make any major howlers and just didn’t do much, whilst everyone else did make howlers and did much worse than nothing!

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Bazunu, Manning, Holgate, Mara should never have started. We all know that, except of course RM who is a blinkered arrogant coont.

RM is at fault for todays debacle and let's hope he goes sooner rather than disaster time later like two of the previous manager gems.

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Holgate and Manning have weakened an already weak defence.

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Bazunu, Manning, Holgate, Mara should never have started. We all know that, except of course RM who is a blinkered arrogant coont.

RM is at fault for todays debacle and let's hope he goes sooner rather than disaster time later like two of the previous manager gems.

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Pub league team playing in the Barcelona style…

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Dreadful performance. Slow and error ridden. Holgate was a nightmare. To have 68% possession and lose 5-0 takes some doing but we rose to the challenge. I think that's what they call 'a reality check'.

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Worse defence in Premiership last year, worse defence in Championship - nothing's changed. How much longer is RM going to persevere with Manning. Play KWP as an attacker as he's nowhere to be seen defensively.

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Absolutely awful from start to finish, no good having all the possession if we don’t move the ball forward, Manning was so bad again he offered nothing especially in defense. Holgate enough said I’ll leave it there and Sekou Mara totally wasted space,wasn’t really happy with most only AA made any effort along with Edozie and Stuart Armstrong
Midfield offered very little in fact front to back except for a very few are taking money under false pretenses.

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Hmm where to start...ok Goalie ... Shocking performance . Not good enough in league 2 let alone the championship. .the defence gave so much room its a wonder we didn't lose by more. .

Midfield. Nothing, no fight just pass pass pass ...oh sh.it i lost it ok pretend to chase back or hope the "defence" will clear up ...then its either pass pass pass or goal conceded.. too many silly slow pondering on the ball ..we are better counter attacking than trying to penetrate through pass pass pass back to the defenders or goalie. .

Up top ...well mara had a mare tried too hard and looked desperate and ended up booked ,after being caught on the ball.no penetration from anyone and too slow or bullied out of it .

I think they thought ahhh we will win this easily, they need to get out of that mindset and work harder , toughen up . . The referee isnt going to give every foul to us.. so stay on your feet and play the game ... ( though a definite penalty we should have had at 2-0 )

RM needs to take responsibility for team selection on this one and play the best players . Having a strong bench means nothing at 4-0 down

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There is a fatal flaw with playing possession football. In order to retain possession the build up has to be slow which enables the opposition to get behind the ball and we are forced to try and breakdown a solid defence.

Our team are all drawn into the opposition half so one misplaced pass or interception means their attack has wide open spaces to play into.

This is why virtually everytime the opposition attacks they look like scoring, and often do, whereas for all our possession we rarely create any clear cut chances.

The better teams have already worked this out and sadly I can't see us mounting a serious promotion challenge playing this way.

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