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 $#@!ing 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 $#@! 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.
Where would you re-locate to? The North Bank is not a lot better at the moment to be brutally honest.
Just need to move from where we are within the Southbank, you all know me on here, unfortunately I take that que sera attitude onto the terraces which caused my Son while defending the right for me to have an opinion contrary to norm to have his glasses broken and for us to spend most of the second half in the first aid centre while received three butterfly stitches.
I'm pretty ashamed at the moment, we need to move and I need to keep my mouth shut.
Just need to move from where we are within the Southbank, you all know me on here, unfortunately I take that que sera attitude onto the terraces which caused my Son while defending the right for me to have an opinion contrary to norm to have his glasses broken and for us to spend most of the second half in the first aid centre while received three butterfly stitches.
I'm pretty ashamed at the moment, we need to move and I need to keep my mouth shut.
Just need to move from where we are within the Southbank, you all know me on here, unfortunately I take that que sera attitude onto the terraces which caused my Son while defending the right for me to have an opinion contrary to norm to have his glasses broken and for us to spend most of the second half in the first aid centre while received three butterfly stitches.
I'm pretty ashamed at the moment, we need to move and I need to keep my mouth shut.
Jackett is getting an easy ride from the fans, protected by the pantomine villains that are Morgan and Moxey. For me, the blame for the current malaise rests fairly and squarely with the man who coaches the team, who sets up the team and picks the team for the reasons listed above. All his good work in creating a team we could have some affinity with is unraveling week by week. Jackett is failing the supporters badly and he needs to take the responsibility. His bland press conferences, which have been a feature of his time at the club, are wearing thin.
No you don't need to keep your mouth shut. I would hope charges follow for whatever did this.
That's sad Trev, on all counts. No need for any violence.
FFS, that's shocking mate. The fact you think you have to stay quiet is bad enough. Was this reported?
Thanks lads, my Son's gonna contact the Club tomorrow, a Steward with Manager on the back of his coat took all the details, I'm going to the ground to see if we can move somewhere else.
I blame myself, my lads are like you lot and put up with my need to do the things I do, I've made a promise to my family that if we, hopefully, manage to get a move, I'll keep my thought to myself in future, I'm far too old for all this crap.
Thanks lads, my Son's gonna contact the Club tomorrow, a Steward with Manager on the back of his coat took all the details, I'm going to the ground to see if we can move somewhere else.
I blame myself, my lads are like you lot and put up with my need to do the things I do, I've made a promise to my family that if we, hopefully, manage to get a move, I'll keep my thought to myself in future, I'm far too old for all this crap.
I can't believe this is down to Thelwell, or even Moxey for that matter.
Ok so with Morgan wanting out, there ain't a lot of cash to spend on players, BUT!! and it is a big BUT!! WE buy Wallace and don't play him, loan him out and he's virtually man of the match every week at Millwall.
We buy Morgan, who according to KT and JM we have been chasing for a while, who scores in his first game and then gets dropped because he doesn't fit the system, comes on as a sub today, and promptly scores again.
Alf must have been signed as tea maker for all the chances he gets to play.
Byrne is a decent enough winger/attacking full back given a run, but he has never had a run.
Saville has been out of favour for almost a season and now he's flavour of the month, along with the previously unwanted VLP.
Danny Baaath would have to die to be dropped.
And Tommy Rowe, bless him has done a Lazurus and actually risen from the dead and buried.
The nucleus of a decent side is sitting there waiting to be played, and Jackett just won't play them, or can't see how to play them.
If the club signs nobody without Jackett's final say so, then why are they here and not even looking like getting a game?
Worse still if deadly Dave was to show up fit tomorrow he would be the first name on the team sheet.
For me this is all down to Jackett and no one else.
The fear factor is seriously affecting us now - Kenny is afraid of losing (& this is dripping down into the team, none of whom know who is likely to play from one game to the next - apart from ALF who appears to have been left off the list of available players so won't get on). The result is a team designed not to lose, but does so anyway.
We are not likely to go far from where we are right now so for FS give it a go - might get better, but even if not we will at least have had some entertainment.
If we don't change then next seasons starting attendance will be in the 15000 range