Awful, awful stuff. You can't send out that team and expect to get anything, I really cannot understand why the manager has a reluctance to attack teams at home who are below us in the league, it's nonsensical. As such we got everything we deserved. That midfield had nothing about it, doesn't stop anything, doesn't create anything or have any goal threat. We played no football as usual, never looked like getting back into the game, hardly tested their keeper and gave away a couple of terrible goals of our own. Similar to a lot of home games this season. Any takers for us to get another three home wins from our remaining seven games? We need that to equal our worst ever tally at home in this division since we came back up in 1989.
Ikeme: Woeful. Before anyone starts I'm not just blaming him for the result but they are two awful goals, once again. Way too slow off his line for the first, he'd done that twice in the first 10 minutes as well, as if he was wearing concrete boots. Then a dreadful punch for the second. At fault for so many goals this season, I honestly couldn't give him a rating of more than 2/10 over the campaign.
Iorfa: Poor game. Didn't defend especially well and didn't really get forward.
Batth/EEL: They both give it everything but as a partnership they're just not up to it at this level. They both make the same mistakes and both have the same weaknesses. Flip a coin for which one drops out when Willo is fit.
Doherty: Cannot defend at all, incredibly half arsed. He does get forward but as he has no left foot at all this is entirely useless to us. Playing at least two full levels above his ability, so far away from the answer it's untrue. I cannot believe this moron is a fixture in our team.
Price: As we weren't playing any football this took away any hope of him using one of his strengths, helping us keep the ball as we weren't even trying to do that. Didn't play very well anyway so he'll probably be parked back on the bench until April.
Coady: Did at least try but has no quality whatsoever. Might have been ok for £200k, at £2m he is a shocker of a signing.
Saville: I've suggested him for a recall a couple of times just to see what he can do. After all this was his first ever start for us at home in the league. So he gets his start...and he was rubbish. Sloppy in possession, rash in the tackle, offering nothing really going forward or defensively and some of the worst set pieces known to man.
Henry: Not in the game and then went off injured.
Van La Parra: Evidently didn't fancy it. Really poor and can have no complaints about getting hooked. Back to the norm for him.
Sigurdarson: I do feel a bit sorry for him. He isn't a target man, he is tall but doesn't have the physical strength or the natural inclination for that role. Leaving that aside, what is the point in hoofing the ball at a bloke when you are setting the team up in such a way that no-one gets around him when he holds it up or gets beyond him when he flicks it on?
Byrne: Good free kick which hit the post. Otherwise we hardly gave him the ball, when he did get it he looked reasonably lively without much end product.
Mason: You tell me why he isn't starting. Took his goal nicely and does at least look like a footballer. Must be wondering what he's walked into.
Rowe: Possibly the most pointless substitution in the world. Why are we swapping a defensive midfielder for a defensive midfielder when we're losing on 84 minutes?
Manager: Go boil your fucking head. Three and a half months I've wanted him out, for reasons best known to the club they haven't put him under any pressure so he's had ample opportunity to turn it round. We aren't turning it around, we are getting worse. This insipid shit is driving people away, it's absolutely appalling football and there is no excuse for it. Blame the owner for flouncing off, blame Moxey for crappy "mind the stove" leadership, that's all perfectly valid. But Ken is a factor we could easily improve on, he's been allowed an amazing amount of leeway from the club and the supporters, I think the latter are starting to turn on him now (rightly so) and hopefully we're coming to the end of his time here. I've had enough of this dross, fourth worst home record in this pisspot league, there is nothing to enjoy about watching us.
