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Up until the substitutions, though, we were superb. Rudoni, Bassette and Thomas-Asante all immense. I'm absolutely gutted, though.

Not down to Torp. It was a hospital pass.

I fucking hate football.

Strange. I've not seen that since the game itself, and the goal's pretty much exactly as I remember, but I could have sworn it happened in front of the West End, where I sat. Strachan was an odd one; there's no doubt he gave us some of the most entertaining teams many of us would have seen, but...

That doesn't mean he's not a better player than O'Hare, though, which he clearly is. Though with all the sour grapes, there is some serious revisionism of how important O'Hare was to us, too. Ultimately, though, who cares. Neither play for us.

This genuinely makes me happy.

And I don't think our centre halves do look particularly lost. I don't think they're out strongest partnership, but I don't think they're the problem, either.

Doyle was excellent today.

We've had a series of good loan centre backs since getting back in the Championship. In fact, the only one who wasn't a success was Panzo.

Thomas had a bad start. Binks has been decent. I would play them though. Thomas is our best defender, and Kitching is good at passing through the lines, which we don't have at all at the moment. Puts us on the front foot.

Yes, first half, though not brilliant, we were the better team and should have been ahead. Second, they made a couple of tweaks, and whilst never being particularly threatening, nullified us completely, passed around us at will, got a lucky goal and then had a pretty easy win. We were...

From what I've seen so far, we aren't close to being a top half team. Three abysmal performances with a lucky point and a win against last year's League 1 play off winners. Amazing.

Absolutely fucking embarrassing. No composure or clue at all. Tactically inept.

It's feeble. Utterly, utterly feeble.

This is absolutely abysmal. This is nothing to do with not being able to land a quality midfielder in the window. It's just a shit team being completely outbattled by an average one.

Apart from on Question Time, of course.

That's kind of the point, though, isn't it.

I agree with this, to a point. However, the two away performances that we've had have been genuinely awful, and it's natural to be concerned by that.

It was essentially the same thing at Sheff Weds. One of our players defends themselves, but punished in the same way as the aggressor. I can take things like their goal; if you want things like that removed, you have to accept VAR, and then you get nonsense like in the Cup semi. Violent...

He does look like he's lost some confidence since coming back. The was a bit of his old form against Oxford, but that's been it, really; not today and not in the first game. But maybe that's to be expected, it was a hell of an injury to come back from.