I'm mystified with this tbh. Yeah we can blame Johnson, fair enough, but the same players who looked great look shot. Doyle and Flanagan were being praised to the heavens but look like pub players now. Cirkin can't tackle or pass, Evans gave the ball away all night and Winchester was invisible. Even Hoffman looks poor. No idea tbh, Sheff Wed must be wondering how they won that game, everything fell just right for them.
At HT thought we were unlucky and the game was still there but LJ gave up there, no subs no intensity he’s feeling the pressure and losing the plot IMO and what the **** does gooch offer, been ****e for a couple of years and getting worse
Absolute garbage man! Wtf's going on? Johnson said after Rotherham, "the players need to look after me". They've clearly shown him where their alliances lie - and they're not with him.
Should get until Xmas-ish. If we lose the next 2 games, everyone will want him gone sooner, if we win them he'll probably get some more slack. Bottom line though, nothing recently instills any confidence in his tactical ability or selections. Are we obliged to play Doyle if he's fit? No way he should have been playing today.
Aye I’ve noticed a bit more arguing lately and it’s 100% frustration with the crap on the pitch. I believe we’ve got the best squad but they need to gel(again), at least on here we argue and move on, no grudges. HTL KTF
Before these last 3 games we were playing with intensity, chasing everything. Now we are strolling around and we don't make changes
I can't believe the change in the players persona. It's as if they've stopped playing for him. We've scored 1 goal in the last 3 league games and conceded an average of 3 goals a game in that time. We're like a different team from a month ago.
Defeats are one thing, and bad runs of form too. The manner of the performances though are worrying. It looks to me like the players have become scared to play. Whether it is Doyle's distribution, or Stewarts running into danger areas, across the park we seem to have dropped standards. When we concede we seem to shrink into ourselves. For the first time tonight I think Johnson showed a weakness and lack of belief in his approach, that also is a big worry. For me he has to stand up now on the training ground and be a leader. He should take the heat off the players and work every hour to give them back that belief in their play we saw first 10 games or so. It was the best football we have played in this league IMO. No chance the club sack Johnson yet in my opinion. He was chosen ahead of plenty of other candidates and must have been Speakmans pick. It would be some admission of error on Speakmans part to sack him before a year is up. I also hope the new mgt structure are a bit better than resorting to panic measures.
There is no connection with tkts for Saturday not in sale yet is there? Another concern regarding recent results is will we get turned over by Mansfield.
The worrying thing is we have no cover for anyone so the likes of Cirkin, Evans and Onien will start again on Saturday. Having Hume and Huggins out for so long could cost is dearly with the amount of fixtures we have coming up. Huggins can also play CDM or he could have played his natural position RB which would have allowed Winchester to come back into Midfield if need be and drop one of them 2. Hume could have shared game time with Cirkin who unfortunately needs to play every single game. We have no options at all now.
