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Despite the occasional smile I wouldn't have wanted to be in that dressing room after today's defeat. Hopefully this is another reset moment. This isn't all on the manager by the way, it's a consistent lack of consistency from a group of players, particularly this group, who should be doing better.
Today was particularly poor because we got worse and worse after a dodgy start. It was obvious the young Brazilian full back was a mistake from the very first minute when he got roasted for their goal. It was plain Kone can not play that role behind the front man, it was clear the mid two were getting swamped, that Vale was way off his game, but no changes were made. Then when they were it was too late and we got worse still. Very depressing.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:18 - Nov 1 with 3384 views
I'm not anti JS but he was to blame for today. 1. Not playing Mbengue 2. Not playing RND 3. Playing Vale 4. Not bringing RND & Saito or Smyth on at HT for Cook & Vale
Wild horses couldn't drag me away...
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:29 - Nov 1 with 3312 views
I thought today was very much on him, tactically it was wrong, the press was wrong and we were wide open and overrun at times. Dont get me I'm wrong I like him and managers will make mistakes just as players do
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:33 - Nov 1 with 3264 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:08 - Nov 1 by Rangersw12
It's Ipswich not Barca FFS they haven't won an away game all season but along come Charity Park Rangers
Today wasn't acceptable and the shrugging of the shoulders and making excuses is part why we've been shit for years
Nothing will improve unless our standards do
That's two bad days at the office in a row as we were terrible at Derby aswell
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Agreed, and we're certainly in a bad 'trend'.
I didn't see a lot of leadership or belief in that second half - we looked mentally weak, on top of being incompetent in both boxes.
JS needs to wake up and smell the cafe au lait. I'm not very impressed with him, but then apparently I'm not very impressed with anyone. (That's what happens when you have passion and standards.)
Cook not seeing that he is way over the hill doesn`t make it easier for the manager and team. I think he should have left or retired last year and Dunne filled in at CB for him. JCS is still not ready sadly...
Cook's form has really fallen off a cliff, but Dunne has been almost as bad. There's a serious lack of defensive cohesion and positional awareness when we don't have the ball. (And when we do have it, we don't tend to do a lot with it.)
Having a good squad is almost becoming more infuriating than having a small one, where the team picks itself.
My thought are:
1) Play a consistent team of players who are in form. That means right now play Smyth. Play Mbuenge. Play Saito. Don't play Vale, think about dropping Kone (but not for Frey). Then when a player's form goes, play the others who are out of the team.
Smyth scored our winning goal at Bristol, played well against Millwall and Swansea and then is dropped. Why?
2) Don't worry so much about these "three game weeks". Play your strongest team in the first of those three games. Don't think about game two before game one. Deal with any injuries or poor displays after and if there hasn't been any, play your strongest team again in game two.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 21:15 - Nov 1 with 3105 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:08 - Nov 1 by Rangersw12
It's Ipswich not Barca FFS they haven't won an away game all season but along come Charity Park Rangers
Today wasn't acceptable and the shrugging of the shoulders and making excuses is part why we've been shit for years
Nothing will improve unless our standards do
That's two bad days at the office in a row as we were terrible at Derby aswell
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Absolutely agree. We also lost the previous home game to Millwall so we are on a bit of a roll. You start to wonder if Swansea hadn't been down to ten after 35 minutes if we might have lost that too against 11 men.
Today's game was a reminder how Ipswich bypassed us from league 1 to get in the Premiership and they easily brushed us aside today. As a club we have been static for so long while other clubs transform themselves at a much faster rate as Coventry and Sunderland are currently demonstrating. We accept mediocrity and make excuses for them when they can't handle three game weeks. Losing 4-1 at home to Ipswich used to be unthinkable and it should be unacceptable when they got stuffed by Charlton at their place very recently.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 21:52 - Nov 1 with 2966 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:02 - Nov 1 by numptydumpty
Its football.
We are mid table and today we played a team that was in the premier.league last season.
We are in a much better place than we have been for several seasons.
If we lose six on the bounce then we need to worry.
We are far from that. Bad day at the office...
It happens !!!
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We need to change offices….keep getting stuffed every time we use this one.
Unless we stop conceding, soft, preventable goals and start every game half asleep, we will continue to lose games.
Kone and Vale were poor again today, Esquerdina and Nardi were awful. The constant rotation of the squad is simply not working and there is no consistency, momentum or intensity in our play.
JS, like Marti before him, needs a dose of pragmatism to get us back on track.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 22:05 - Nov 1 with 2906 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 20:58 - Nov 1 by stainrods_elbow
Cook's form has really fallen off a cliff, but Dunne has been almost as bad. There's a serious lack of defensive cohesion and positional awareness when we don't have the ball. (And when we do have it, we don't tend to do a lot with it.)
Apart from that . . .
** There's a serious lack of defensive cohesion and positional awareness when we don't have the ball.**
And there was me thinking we had a defensive coach.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 13:22 - Nov 2 with 2424 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 21:52 - Nov 1 by Burnleyhoop
We need to change offices….keep getting stuffed every time we use this one.
Unless we stop conceding, soft, preventable goals and start every game half asleep, we will continue to lose games.
Kone and Vale were poor again today, Esquerdina and Nardi were awful. The constant rotation of the squad is simply not working and there is no consistency, momentum or intensity in our play.
JS, like Marti before him, needs a dose of pragmatism to get us back on track.
JS reacted quickly and decisively after Coventry. Isaac Hayden said they'll be in Heston today doing the analysis, which, if true and he didn't actually mean Monday, at least shows pro-activity.
Of course the alternative view point is that we seem to be going the long way round the circle to find the supposedly perfect solution each time, instead of sticking to one approach that worked well against the likes of Charlton and Wrexham.
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Gaffer on today's defeat on 13:52 - Nov 2 with 2357 views
Gaffer on today's defeat on 21:49 - Nov 1 by ManinBlack
Absolutely agree. We also lost the previous home game to Millwall so we are on a bit of a roll. You start to wonder if Swansea hadn't been down to ten after 35 minutes if we might have lost that too against 11 men.
Today's game was a reminder how Ipswich bypassed us from league 1 to get in the Premiership and they easily brushed us aside today. As a club we have been static for so long while other clubs transform themselves at a much faster rate as Coventry and Sunderland are currently demonstrating. We accept mediocrity and make excuses for them when they can't handle three game weeks. Losing 4-1 at home to Ipswich used to be unthinkable and it should be unacceptable when they got stuffed by Charlton at their place very recently.
We lost 1-3 to Ipswich in 2009 and 2006, 2-4 in 2004, and 0-4 in 1979 so it's hardly an unprecedented outlier.
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