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It’s a mix. Some just aren’t good enough. Some are good enough but low in confidence. But what we really lack is footballing nous, a bit of nastiness and some hard nosed experience. I remember us bringing in Carlton Palmer short term a few years back. Saw us across the line in games like Norwich...

It’s ridiculous to judge Lampard this early, ridiculous. Patently someone else’s badly constructed squad.

We’ve spent all season confirming we have a terrible defence and a very limited midfield. We’ve now bolted on an injury to our best forward and another who was just finding form. Why did some expect Lampard to be able to improve things markedly? It will take time, playing personnel changes and...

Amazing how a defeat blows all perspective out of the window. Godden - excellent finisher in his prime. Patently gone in the legs in his final season and could not play a role.

No, not losing interest. Enjoying the season and its twists and turns. Fully engaged and optimistic.

Let’s get real. Any championship club would take Simms, Wright, Bassette, Rudoni and EMC. There’s absolutely no pressure on Lampard as of now if we have any credibility. We’ve lost in injury time. It’s gutting. But it happens. What we don’t need is ridiculous knee jerk reactions.

We look poor because we are poor. But the salient fact is that, for most, poor is in comparison to teams expecting to be in and around the play offs. We’re a mid table champ budget club. That’s where we should be looking. We can’t pay big enough wages to consistently challenge top end.

Utter, utter frustration. Terrible way to lose. On the bright side Dovin and Kitching looked good.

It’s a thing that really irritates the hell out of me. The worst offenders are Eccles, Thomas and Binks when he plays. For christ sake, sometimes row Z is the play. We put ourselves under so much pressure to retain possession which will only end up with either centre back anyway.

He’s what you get in a striker for £2m. The proximity of his miss to us conceding has made it look worse. In reality he’s the least of our worries. The mentality of this squad is as brittle as you’ll see.

Work rate. Simple as that

Carelessness

It’s Bassette rather than Sheaf as we’re away at a place where we’ll need players to cover lots of ground hassling and harrying. Step forward BTA and Bassette

The issue isn’t really who has the last say. The issue is that we are operating in a rigid wage structure. You can identify as many players as you want but the crunch comes when you only have a certain top offer. You get the likes of Stamenic going elsewhere. You obviously have to find players...

Why are some so keen to get rid of Sheaf. Our best midfielder by a long way and in an area where the pool is shallow. If we get a ridiculous bid fair enough. If not try and shift Allen or Torp and free up wages. We would seriously regret selling Sheaf.

Absolutely huge risk if we let him go now. We need two in the door before he goes out. He’s a top notch championship midfielder. Our priority should be to keep him. If it was this time next year with 6 months of contract left it’s a different story.

And he had a certain John Sillett as youth team manager.

Christ - season over?? We’ve been in L2, not played in the city. Had points deductions. Not paid a transfer fee in years. Not sold anyone for more than tuppence. Enjoy where we are, it’s night and day to the recent past.

Oh I understand how it works. It’s where we lack a good leader to knock a few heads together and tell them to stop being such ridiculous playground prats.

I think this does highlight one of our biggest issues. When we get into goalscoring positions our decision making firstly and execution secondly is really bad. I get that confidence is low and we’re snatching at things etc. But I’ve lost count of the games where we’ve dominated etc only for the...