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Apart from the fact that he's still not got himself to complete 1 game a week never mind 2 in 3 days? It was, but now he's shit apparently Yes, TSL needs to deal with the cross and not get involved in trying to move the striker first. Dalby, Conway, Duberry & Burstow should all have done better with their efforts on goal. We didn't lose because of tactics, approach, substitutions, the ref etc last night. We lost due to a rookie keeper error and woeful finishing.

I’ll have to watch again. At first watch it looked to me like the CB who is most culpable is Toal not Johnston, looks like he was out jumped ? That said TSL should be taking full responsibility. I’m with @Johnnyrotten on the Johnston debate - can’t believe we’re lambasting him for giving a corner away! Because that’s essentially what we are saying - it was, IMO, his only notable mistake yesterday. He’s not perfect - a few little concerns, but probably far less concerns than most L1 defenders. I think he’s been one of our best players this season.

Why don’t we get back Walker and McGinlay as well. Fuck me every defeat and it’s get old players back. Charles was fucking awful for us the last 6 months or so. His head being up arse. Don’t ever want that cunt near our club again

It's chicken and egg with this poor crossing and our midfielders should be 'doing more' etc If there's fuck all movement up front and nobody making space or reading the balls then the jobs fucked. So many times last night Sheehan or Morley were driving forward looking for options and the front lads were all just stood next to their men. We are asking a lot of them with the limited lot we have up top. We are desperate for any kind of pace or ingenuity up top. Would solve so many of our problems. Yes the wingers cut in alot and run into trouble but if there's nothing on, either through the lines or the full backs on the overlap then there's not a lot else they can do bar lay it short or try and make a run themselves, which invariably leads them into trouble. Inverted wingers with lack of the overlap is the worst concoction ever for Dalby.

Oxford was a masterclass on how to beat us, that wasnt. Mansfield were dominated and conceded many chances. Play like that 9 times out of ten you get a hiding, we squandered our chances and conceded a weak goal and it needs adressing, as Schumacher has stated, but that is no masterclass or blueprint.

He was a joy to watch tonight, levels above anyone else and we are lucky to have him. Yes he makes the odd wayward pass, but it is probably 1-2% of his passing in most games. As you say he sees passes no one else does and he reads the game very well, always been a big fan but tonight was a top performance and he really didnr diserve to be on the losing side.

Good interview that. You can see he's fuming and he's bang on about us just not being good enough in either box. It'd have been easy to be like lesser managers we've had and pretend he's seen a different game, blame the ref etc. He knows what's wrong and I back him to put it right.

Love this 😂

He was absolutely outstanding, from start to finish (other than his corners as usual). Even after 95 minutes of constant involvement, doing a lung bursting run into the box which on another day wins a pen. Doesn't deserve to be on the losing side, he must be tearing his hair out. Tutu also outstanding, not even a question mark in my mind that he's our best RB with the current options.

Sheehan poor? Each to there own, but dont know what else he could have done tonight. He was the heart beat of the team first half, great shot which Dalby should have followed up but great defending as well, defence splitting pass to put in conway who also should have scored, then great run later on to set up Burstow.

Not disagreeing with Forino playing on the right of the CBs because he's got decent quality, but we're conceding every home game because of blatant errors by TSL and Christie, not because the CBs aren't doing their jobs, they've both been superb. The logic is to get rid of the players making the errors, not those that are defending well (and I'm not having GJ gets dropped for giving a corner away).

I was on here banging on how we need Erhahon in this team for two years, nothing has changed in that time. Today was the 5th defeat in the league and he has not started in any of the five. The keeper is hit and miss,but we was never going to get another Trafford. Full backs are a issue but is that because we play with attacking full backs and at times they get caught high up the pitch. Midfield we play with two which again leaves us light but in my opinion we have the best two in the division in Sheehan and Erhahon and i think we make it hard for ourselves not adding the third when we have Dempsey and Morley twiddling their thumbs. Wingers are our shit or bust on form they are unplayable but when they are not we struggle to Score. The 9 and Ten are the biggest worry we simply do not have quality there to get us promoted. The 10 is the main issue and the best two are Mcatee and Burstow which does not say much for the rest. Up to the board where we go in January. If SS keeps with this formation we need to bring in Keillor-Dunne and a proven forward. And a arquement for a new keeper and right back, Certainly the front two needs addressing.

If you think Forino is superior to Johnston then football isn’t for you.

But not many have ridden their luck as much as that tonight.

Hes was fine, and ones of the best players on the pitch in the last game. It was an atracking sub to give us more bodies up front. How you can say Forrester and Forino are superior is beyond me when neither have played much or impressed when they have, this season.

Hard to put into words how much I disagree with that. Beggars belief what some people are seeing versus what I'm watching.

He pretty had to try and single-handedly get us a result tonight. I thought he was excellent and let down by a bunch of cowards who didn't have the bravery to try something for themselves, always taking the easy option to give it back to Sheehan to do something with it.

Thought Randal had a better game tonight than against Rotherham, and he was pretty decent then.

Count stepovers

Fantastic. Still remember that Watford/Leicester playoff game, where the Leicester player (Knocart?) dived for a pen, took and missed the pen and then Watford went straight up the other end and scored (Troy Deeney?) or something like that .

Best result of the night 1-1 at Old Trafford where UTD failed to beat Wolves. What joy.

Or they're highlighting a worrying trend with an already concerning demographic that have come here to escape persecution or a war torn country and seek refuge? You don't think that's newsworthy or should be of public interest?

I just can't bring myself to do the ignore the result and watch next day thing. Just doesn't work for me. In the past the Mrs has just said to people, "he'll go missing for 90 mins, feel free to join him anyone" 😁

I know I couldn't do the "hosting family" thing while Bolton are even playing, never mind trying to watch it on TV. Nothing worse than trying to make polite conversation or play family games while fuming at the ref not giving us a pen or Dalby missing a sitter. Best for everyone that the two are kept separate!

He'll be over this way soon, balls deep in trannys and crisco oil.

For a number 10 to work you need a decent number 9... With Dalby up top you don't even need a no10 as such. Dalby doesn't want intricate through balls. He needs someone to play of him and some balls in at his massive head.

Completely agree, it’s not the number of crosses or corners but the quality. Rotherham had 3 Reece James crosses in the first twenty minutes all of which were crossed with pace and swerve into the perfect place and had the forwards been of the same quality we’d have been in trouble. Our corners and crosses are so often just floated in and don’t trouble the defenders. I can’t believe our players are incapable of crosses like that which not only put their defenders under pressure but make it more likely our strikers will benefit from the extra pace.

Just shut up. Good White British criminals aren't a problem because something something flags and salt of the earth working men and flags and Tommy Farage flags, traitor.

I agree he put a couple of wayward passes in tonight 2nd half and shouldn't have given a corner away so easily, but how anyone can question Johnston overall is beyond me and MOTM in last game. He gave a corner away, in Forino's last game he leaped up to give a penalty away! And he's left footed, Forino or Forrester on the left just isn't an option. Its difficult to rotate GJ, it was meant to be the left footed Taylor but that's not happening.

We've put in some dire performances this season, but that was the best we've played for a while. We produced slick build up play, particularly in the 1st half. I estimate that we crossed the ball about 40 times and won those crosses about 5? The same from corners, we don't win headers in the box, just not physical enough. SS post match i/v, we were not good enough in both boxes, this is so true, but its a consistent problem all season and we have failed to correct it. I actually felt for SS last night, he didn't miss the chances and made positive early substitutions. Regarding transfers, somehow we need to thin out the forward line and we need a better quality striker. A left back to compete with Conway too.

Behave, last night tsl at fault, rovrum, pen conceded by christie, exeter tsl at fault. The last few games Johnston and toal have been building a strong looking partnership in the middle of defence, Johnston in my opinion looking stronger each game. If you are looking for scapegoats defensively then look at right back and keeper, even though I think tsl is going to be a cracking keeper but hes just a kid learning his trade.

Not missing sitters also helps.

Was he one of the ones sat wearing a traffic cone on his head holding a sign up saying Schumacher owt

Clean sheets - that’s how you win this league

Conceding soft goals and missing guilt edge chances, story of our season. I know every team will say goals are avoidable but ours have been genuinely more so. Teddy's mistake against Exeter and tonight not being strong enough, the penalty against Rotherham. Even the 2 goals against Wycombe where our players slipped and theirs don't. You see the genuine frustration and anger in Schuey's eyes and rightly so. We shouldnt have lost any of the games we have lost so far. But we're 22 games in and there's a clear pattern. Think January has come at a good time because I think we need some experience to assist this young group. They are playing well, controlling games and trying, but like Schuey has said, we're just not clinical, in both boxes. You can't expect promotion like that no matter how many shots and possession you have per game. It's frustrating because there's clear a good team there capable. I don't believe for one second that Lincoln & Bradford are better sides than us, but they're more solid and get the job done.

We've played worse than tonight & won this season & will do again. We lost because we missed our chances which is obviously a problem but not yet a reason for hysteria or mass changes. Odd again that Morley put in some lovely crosses .....but after Dalby had gone off. & the Conway one was a penalty. Cissoko was booked for diving, if the ref thought Conway dived , why did he not book him also ? MOTM Sheehan, a class act.

I've been saying for a while (over 12 months) that Johnston is our biggest problem, yes he does some things right, but most people seem to be blind to all the things he does wrong/badly - and directing the ball out of play, when hardly under pressure at all, is one of those. He did it on Friday and Rotherham had 2 really good chances as a result of the throw-in he gifted them. He's also poor at heading - yes he gets to the ball, sometimes (definitely not always) but has limited control where the ball is going. He's incredibly weak at defending corners and, whilst he can play a good pass, god awful passes are also in his armoury. I hate criticising players online, but I'm afraid we aren't going up automatically if he remains in the team.

Thought we played well tonight, probably the best I’ve seen for a while. The balance looked right. Dalby scores and we go in at halftime in front, instead he misses and we start to to look nervy, keep the same team nyd with a similar performance and we may well be back in the mix. Sheehan mom again.

Was delighted when Johnston went off. His terrible distribution and awful decision making cost us today with the giving away of a needless corner. Forrester and Forino are superior defenders and it feels odd they've not had a look in when fit again.

I don't imagine in May many of us would have envisaged the extent of reshaping of squad and system SS and team managed to bring about. It shows though how tricky a business that sort of overhaul can be when, at the halfway stage, we're in a position where few of those new recruits, for various reasons, are adding enough to the mix. Neither central striker can currently burgle a goal, ACD has lost some form and confidence, Gale is inconsistent, Erhahon decent but for not enough consistent, sustained minutes, Christie regressed after a decent start, Forss and Simons similar, and Cissoko and Taylor nonentiities. That's not to say SS has brought in a load of dross, of course not, the potential for impact was there in all of them when signed, apart from scratching my head about Cissoko. Just unfortunate that so many of them have gone off it or never been on it and, although SS had made noises to Iles about not looking for much more turnover in Jan, its looking like he might need to engineer it.

We're 22 games into the season and still bleating about how we are the 'on another day' runaway league leaders. The 'best squad in the league' has spent 0 days in the top two and is now 7 points adrift of Lincoln City. To get to 92 points we need to go at 2.3ppg across the next 24 and we haven't looked remotely like stringing that kind of form together. We've won two away games and still have to visit all of the top three. Still time and a window to change things, but the facts are we've been miles off it. If the alarm bells aren't ringing now you're not paying attention.

On another day that game finishes 4-0 to us. Ref was dogshit as usual. Nothing to worry about really, and our home record had to end at some point. But let the meltdowns ensue.

Bravo Steven Schumacher for an honest - and IMO accurate assessment of where we are as a team. Whenever concerns have been pointed out on here when we have won recently the stock response has been that all that matters is getting the points - but tonight our luck ran out and we got fuck all. Tonight was a Mansfield masterclass in how to beat us and that blueprint has and will be used by loads of teams who may not have the style (or the flattering statistics) our lads possess, but are solid enough when it comes down to substance. The question for me is that now we know that the manager is aware we aren’t good enough, will he get the backing to try to fix it? And if so, how? He questioned both our defence and our attack. For me the priority has to be attack because if we’re taking chances and scoring goals it’s a different game as tonight would have been if Dalby had put away that sitter at the beginning. It’s a complex and potentially expensive fix and the January window will be telling. I’ve no idea how it will work out.

Like his honesty no bullshit which is refreshing summed it up perfectly.

Tory MPs are pushing for him to be have his citizenships revoked and returned to Egypt. The PM and his right hand man are both celebrating that he’s been released and he’s in the UK. If you can’t see where the problem is then there’s no helping you.

Can he keep?

When did this mon make his comments, and when did they come to light? All this he said, she said is utter bollocks. If plenty of politicians thought it reasonable to offer him sanctuary initially, then maybe there was a case. The revelations have been brought to attention now, and therefore it is the responsibility of the current government to deal with it. It is also the job of the official opposition to push them to do so. Doesn't matter which party is in office and which is in opposition. Just send the cunt back, and revoke his citizenship. Simple.

Hmmmm just go back a few posts were I said that it’s a cross party fuck up. Members of the other party have admitted they fucked up…….our PM though?

Only one brought him “home” still no comment from him I see. Awkward.

Not when one of the PMs top cases since getting into power was get this mon home. Fuck the wars, fuck the cost of living, fuck the record number of boat folk coming over, let’s get this fella back. No wonder he’s taking shit from all sides, including his own.