When did you lose the plot today

Colin Warnek

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That was truly dreadful. For me when Olusanya came on and spooned his cross over the other side of play. I think he had about 10 touches and 7 or 8 were fouls. Not his fault mind you, should we really be signing players from Billericay to replace the likes of Marvin Johnson?

Long hard season ahead.
 
That was truly dreadful. For me when Olusanya came on and spooned his cross over the other side of play. I think he had about 10 touches and 7 or 8 were fouls. Not his fault mind you, should we really be signing players from Billericay to replace the likes of Marvin Johnson?

Long hard season ahead.

As soon as I seen Tav was on the wing and the fact Howson cant track a man to save his life
 
After about twenty minutes.....when we gave Swift the freedom of the pitch. Let Reading and Swift run that game, do we watch the opposition or does Colin think they should just worry about us!
 
When reading scored...just knew it would happen... credit to boro fans they outsung the reading celebrations after that....but thought they (fans) deserved better.
 
What’s Uche done wrong? Him and Sprorar up top together. I think that’s Warnock’s last roll of the dice.
That's one positive to take from today. Crooks will be suspended so we can finally try something different up top, although knowing our luck it will be rescinded.
 
10 minutes from the end. I have been patient and although I dont post loads on here I was contemplating posting a couple of weeks ago about how we as fans need to be patient and that I feel the team will click soon. I still believe that, but today really pushed me. We have too many players that either play it safe or hoof it long with no direction.

I mentioned at half time that Fry should have been bringinging it out of defence into midfield and the one time he did it, it pulled one of their midfielders out of position and we had an attack on. There was no pressure on our defenders all game as they only had Hoillet up front so we should have been doing that far more. The midfield go backwards far too much. We need wins - it should be a last resort to go backwards when we are not in a winning position. Play on the front foot and try to make things happen. We have the players to do it but they are playing within themselves. I personally think our confidence is shot.

I always support the team and the manager, but Warnock needs to stop with the excuses and sound bites and concentrate on getting the midfield tightened up and the forward players playing with a bit of creativity and purpose.
 
Crooks will be suspended so we can finally try something different up top, although knowing our luck it will be rescinded.
I don't know what Crooks is doing to deserve staying on the pitch? The near post flick was as good as he got. Tav is the one who seems to be on Sporar's wavelength but perhaps Watmore might be?

Honestly watching Matt Crooks wander about the pitch was driving me to distraction. He's been poor in the last two games (I know, who hasn't) but he is definitely a Warnock favourite.

Oh and that red card should be rescinded if we appeal it. Nonsense decision and although the ref was no great shakes today and let them get away with a lot of tom foolery in the added on time, he didn't get much wrong.
 
Given what we've seen so far my expectations levels are pretty low at the moment, we just don't look like a team currently, so its hard to judge individual performances because there seems to be a deeper, more fundamental issue behind our results.

We look slow, lacklustre, devoid of real invention and lacking in shape.

A team that is less than its constituent parts.
 
Crooks is emblematic of precisely why we are where are at the moment. He was presumably signed to replace Saville. He’s a No8, a box to box man. He puts himself about, likes a header and a tackle and covers the pitch. He has more presence than Saville. But we’re playing him off the front or, a couple of times this season including today, as the striker while the target man Warnock spent a season banging on about sits on the bench.

McNair was terrible in defence while the two orthodox centre halves sit on the sidelines. Howson let people run off him all afternoon. There were gaping holes right across our midfield. You’ve got a nippy striker up front feeding off long balls. Payero starts and looked completely lost. You would do, wouldn’t you, playing in that midfield. The plan seemed to be give it to Jones for the first 20mins and then just boot it. Then you bring a kid out of the Conference South and pick him ahead of Watmore and Ikpeazu. Why? I can’t get my head around anything he’s trying to do any more.

It’s madness. A complete mess.
 
I don't know what Crooks is doing to deserve staying on the pitch? The near post flick was as good as he got. Tav is the one who seems to be on Sporar's wavelength but perhaps Watmore might be?

Honestly watching Matt Crooks wander about the pitch was driving me to distraction. He's been poor in the last two games (I know, who hasn't) but he is definitely a Warnock favourite.

Oh and that red card should be rescinded if we appeal it. Nonsense decision and although the ref was no great shakes today and let them get away with a lot of tom foolery in the added on time, he didn't get much wrong.
Yeah, in fairness it wasn't a sending off. I just feeling taking Crooks out of the side could make a big difference to our style of play.

If Warnock wants a target man then why not bring Uche back into the side, and have Sporar playing off him.
 
Crooks is emblematic of precisely why we are where are at the moment. He was presumably signed to replace Saville. He’s a No8, a box to box man. He puts himself about, likes a header and a tackle and covers the pitch. He has more presence than Saville. But we’re playing him off the front or, a couple of times this season including today, as the striker while the target man Warnock spent a season banging on about sits on the bench.

McNair was terrible in defence while the two orthodox centre halves sit on the sidelines. Howson let people run off him all afternoon. There were gaping holes right across our midfield. You’ve got a nippy striker up front feeding off long balls. Payero starts and looked completely lost. You would do, wouldn’t you, playing in that midfield. The plan seemed to be give it to Jones for the first 20mins and then just boot it. Then you bring a kid out of the Conference South and pick him ahead of Watmore and Ikpeazu. Why? I can’t get my head around anything he’s trying to do any more.

It’s madness. A complete mess.

The amount of chances teams make running off the back of Howson is quite frankly a disgrace. He should be ashamed of himself in that regard it’s a disgrace. I agree, it’s a mess and we are going nowhere with Warnock.
 
The amount of chances teams make running off the back of Howson is quite frankly a disgrace. He should be ashamed of himself in that regard it’s a disgrace. I agree, it’s a mess and we are going nowhere with Warnock.
It just highlights how ridiculous it is that we didn't go all out to sign a proper holding midfielder. I said after the QPR game that it would prove costly if we failed to do so.
 
When I saw PaulH10's post stating it is time to get rid of Gibson. This is in the same week we have seen Mel Morris take Derby into administration and the tama deducted at least 12 points.

We have more than our share of idiots.
 
Peltier was out of position on numerous occasions, Howson should play there until Dijksteel is back.
Hall needs to start along side Fry, with McNair if in a 3, or McNair as the holding defensive midfielder.
Is Uche injured ?1st name on the sheet at the start of the season, now out?
-----------------Keeper
-----Fry---------Hall-------Mcnair
Howson-------Crooks-----------Bola
--------Tav---Sporar---Watmore
----------------Ikpeazu
Or
-------------------Keeper
----Howson----Fry-----Hall------Bola
-------------Crooks-----Mcnair
-----Tav-------Sporar------Watmore
-------------------Ikpeazu
Hernandez would play when fit in the role behind.
Jones, Payero,Siliki,Peltier, Bamba Coburn and Marley as back up.
 
To rectify the midfield imbalance I would drop crooks play payero further forward and bring dyksteel into midfield to shield the back four. With just howson holding theres more gaping holes than a porno movie
 
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