Conflicted on last night. For a while, when everything was going wrong earlier this season, I was saying that the only thing I've ever asked for is a team I could be proud of. In isolation, fighting back from 2-0 away from home to get a point is definitely something to be proud of. There has to come a point where you ask for something more than what we're seeing though.
It seems like every game we're sent out with little to no plan of what to do with the ball. It's not even like we're falling into the old trap that so many awful teams fall into of hoofing the ball at someone who can't hold it up, we're not even doing that. It seems like when we get the ball we're just doing our best to lose it in a way which doesn't immediately expose us. Fill our own box full of as many bodies as possible, stay in the game and hope something falls to us. Except then you have idiots like Hugo Bueno & Jackson Tchatchoua who can't even do that right and all of a sudden we're 2-0 down. Again.
I joked when we conceded that at least that might mean that we have to abandon the 'plan' and have an attempt at actually playing the sport we're supposed to be competing in but that's exactly what happened. They can do it against good opposition, they've proven it on more than one occasion. Unfortunately we're usually multiple goals down by the time that they're released from the shackles of this turgid mindset they seem to be sent out with every week. The excuse that we have to play this way because we're so out of our depth at this level wears a little thin when you see us create chances at the rate we did last night once the onus was on us to attack.
We've got almost a full month off now. That's great news for players like Mateus Mané who has been ran into the ground, but also for the coaching staff who have an opportunity to get these guys on the training ground and try to instill some kind of attacking identity into this group. I expect us to come out and give these last 7 games a really good go and give us a tiny hint of optimism ahead of what I expect to be a pretty grim summer. 7 more games of 5-4-1 and I'm not sure I can have any other opinion other than we need to get rid of this coaching group, regardless of how many draws we shit house out of those fixtures.
