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Ok, I'm not saying the system directly resulted directly in an unforced error, in the sense that it put him in that position. It didn't. What I'm saying is that if a system that leaves a player exposed is going to affect their confidence, put them on edge, and so make them more susceptible to...

I've been close to typing that at you several times this evening. You're such a drama queen that it's hard not to believe you're just wumming.

As he should be, but you can see why a system that exposes him is going to affect his game.

In a sense they were, though, or certainly the winner. It was a panicked mistake, but a player will be panicked when they don't feel secure. A system that exposes centre-backs is going to make them nervous throughout the game, and that leads to errors, as we saw.

No. He stopped the play for a head injury, I think. There was no foul given for that, anyway.

Southampton aside, which had mitigating circumstances, we didn't deserve to win any of those games. PNE and Charlton should never have been allowed back into the game, and Birmingham didn't deserve anything themselves, but we haven't been hard done by in the amount of points that we got from...

Much as I like him, there's a reason why he's spent his career in the Championship.

Are you this big a drama queen in real life?

Their recent results suggest they're extremely difficult to beat at the moment. Probably won't win enough to stay up, but playing them will probably be an extremely frustrating game to watch.

This worries me more than the individual form of any player.

We don't seem able to match anyone's intensity at the moment.

They're not in form, but they're not awful. I said up thread that Kitching needs to be dropped for a spell.

Our defenders can defend (yes, I know that sounds a hollow statement after watching that), but they are constantly exposed by forwards charging at them because we play so open. Every, and I mean every, defender is going to look ropey against that type of exposure. The issue isn't the personnel...

We've had three points since then, and one of those was at Charlton, who are a painfully mediocre team, and one was against 10 men. The worst thing is, that most of the defeats have been due to being brainlessly gung-ho. There's no way we should have lost to a very average Birmingham team, and...

And now it's not working, so he has to. That's the sign of a good manager; one who is able to rectify and tweak things when they are no longer working.

Kitching especially needs a time on the sidelines. He's a good player, but he's in awful form, and the point of a squad is that you can pick players on form. Perhaps Lati deserves a run. He's limited, but Kitching's form is making him a liability.

And that's why we're now repeatedly being turned over away from home. Often against pretty average teams.

Which forced a good save and a goal-line clearance following another good save. He was dangerous, and one of the very few to get any credit at all out of that.

MvE was good. Wright ok; don't know why he's getting criticism. Esse in patches. Kitching, Thomas, Dasilva and especially BTA absolutely fucking pathetic. BTA should be embarrassed with himself. Lampard: 0. Wrong set-up, and taking Wright off when he was a biggest goal threat was a joke...

He also needs to learn from his own mistakes. Because at the moment, I am not seeing that he is.