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I think we need to admit that the 3-1-6 is no longer sustainable.

Well it’s clear we need to tighten up the middle of the pitch - recently we’ve been embarrassingly easy to pass through. You either play Onyeka and Grimes as a double pivot with Rudoni/Torp in front or Onyeka sitting deep with Torp/Eccles either side.

Best case scenario we’re beating QPR and he can just come on for 20 mins to close the game out.

With his rather severe downturn in form, I was thinking back to that issue he seemed to have at Southampton where it looked like his boot got stuck in the turf. Since then I don’t think he’s looked anywhere near the same - now that may be coincidental but it almost tallies with our loss of form...

I made it 1. If you’re chalking the one under the keeper that got cleared off the line then it’s unbelievably harsh.

Structurally we’re a mess in all departments at the moment. The midfield issue is well trodden but how many times do we lose first contact at an attacking set piece and the opposition are away? How many times do we let wide players just run into the box unchallenged?

Grimes is absolutely honking tonight.

What the fuck. What’s Kitching doing. What’s Grimes doing.

What the fuck is Dasilva doing

Right, a big problem for me is that we let wingers have the ball wide and don’t close down. “Defending our box” they call it. Fucking engage with the player.

Oh fuck off a mile.

To me it seems he’s trying (and failing) to grab the scruff of the guys shirt and push away, that’s what he does second time anyway. I just think he’s got his range all wrong and definitely should have walked.

The depth of our play is why. So often we end up with 5-6 players stood in a line up top.

Full backs not high enough.

Can play shit and not track back as much as he likes if he does that every time he shoots.

Fucking allergic to going to the man. May as well play 4 Bidwells at the back.

Really frustrates me when we play quite a direct game. Play it up the pitch and rarely do we read where it’ll land after the initial header.

Feel that when we lose the ball Grimes really has to get out of the habit of just dropping off. Couple of times now we’ve let them have a run through the middle of the pitch rather than engage.

I was thinking more the Kai Wagner one I’d highlighted, where he’s shot from the left and almost hit the corner flag on the same side. Might actually go searching for a video of it.