Hassenhuttl may well save us in the end, but it's not as if he's not making mistakes. Today he was out-strategised by Warnock who set up a defensive shape as expected, but instead of adding attacks on the break he added man-marking. Saints didn't respond at all well. We kept playing a flat line upfront that was supposed to encourage for balls over and behind the defence, but none of those balls ever happened. RH also messed up with the starting line-up, I think. Too defensive in midfield. And putting Shane Long in the starting XI is a mark of insanity whenever it happens and with whatever manager. Long had the kind of game today that surely makes his apologists ("yes, he doesn't score, but he does all kinds of other things for the team") want to eat their words and crawl into a hole. I'm picking on him to begin with because as soon as the XI was announced it was obvious we'd be lucky to score a goal in this match. That meant that what did happen was inevitable--if we concede we give up points. The fact that we equalized and then made another late concession shows it's no accident. And it's no accident that the man responsible for late concession both this week and last week was Stephens. Despite his having a mostly solid game, and even scoring a goal, he's a liability in the end. Aside from Long and Stephens (and the totally clueless Elyounoussi), nobody stood out. Our best players had average games, to put it kindly.

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Didn't realise how much Rafferty contributed in an attacking sense until today. Mc Laughlin is a very poor replacement - very average in defence and offers nothing going forward

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I just read this comment on another forum and I don't know who BrotherLead is but I realised he has distilled a lot of my pain in to 2 short sentencces:
Remember 2 years ago we could never score with Long and Austin, which gravitated into last season as well? And here we are, still having to rely on the gruesome twosome up front.

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Cardiff must have been really scared when they saw that Shane Long was leading the line for us?!!! You can’t question Shane’s endeavour, but you can question his ability at this level! You could hear the laughter in the crowd at Leicester, when he scored we knew we were going to win. We need to change the Manager before he will score again and I like Ralph and hope he is with us for a while and so don’t expect another Shane Long goal for a ‘long’ time!!

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Poor display. Sorry but tactically you were left wanting today. Three centre backs watching the game from afar leaving us light in midfield.
Valery who apart from one decent was dreadful was too far advanced and spent most of the game ‘marking’ their left back. What this did was mean that Valery was not available as an outlet to the midfield. The second symptom of Valery being hopelessly inept was that their left back was able to sit deep and prevent and balls going into the channels for Redmond to run into or give him space to run into.
Hilarious that Valery is voted MOM on here! People just don’t watch the game closely enough and vote on one or two moments rather than watching the match in detail.

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Not sure we can quite make 20th but we'll give it a damn good try

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For me Wells should have given way for Eze rather than Wszolek. Eze is not of a defending nature and is more dangerous further forward.

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I agree with Addinall, Wells was playing with little confidence & I believe Wszolek must have been instructed to cross immediately he had the ball, this was never productive. His natural game was to go pass the defender & cross from the by line, more effective as Smith would not be caught offside.

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Rs did very well, but the sort of game where our bad luck equals a team from the league above being just a little bit sharper at crucial moments. Freeman MOTM, but all the team did well until tiring towards the end.

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