Be even more positive. This spell won't last. Do you think we are suddenly a poor team?
We are looking like it at the moment. I know it's only the last 3 games, but yesterday we were so awful. Words cannot even begin to describe just how bad we are and the cracks are indeed beginning to show.
If TM was to bring in at least 3 new players tomorrow I would be feeling a lot more confident, but he now seems to be only talking about two and some going out in the opposite direction too. That's a worry, depending on who is going from the club.
My biggest concerns right now are:
Ramage - Who is just so slow and to be frank, a liablity at the back. Seemingly all the negative things we had heard about him when he was first linked have been proved right. He's only played 3 games for us and we have lost them all and shipped in 7 goals. That was a shocking display from him yesterday.
Murphy - Who seems to be well out of form. Don't think he's haad a good game since Crewe and when he doesn't play well we really struggle and it's also like playing with 10 men. Would really think it's worth considering sticking him on the bench and seeing if he can be a threat coming on for the last 20 mins or so.
Ricketts - On a bad run of form. At the start of the season he was majestic and looked real quality. Now he has become error-ridden and looked tired and not been half as assured as he previously was. Massive worry, because the defence has been so, so shaky of late.
Stokes - TM seriously needs to look at supporting the bloke down the left flank when we are going forwards, it's now getting ridiculous.
We move forwards, give the ball out to Stokes on the left and then just leave him there totally unsupported and then nearly every single time the only thing Stokes can do is to pass the ball backwards or sideways. It really is just ridiculous and very, very predictable. When we give him the ball out on the left there is usually no-one within 10 yards of him, so you have to think, what's the point?
Cole - TM seriously needs to look at how he fits into the City set-up. Every since he has arrived we have started to look rather disjointed and it seems like we have been bending over backwards to accomodate him..
Armstrong - We have to give the lad more support. It's as simple as that. Half the time we are leaving him isolated and he is being crowded out. Needs adressing as a matter of urgency.
Goalkeeper - Think most agree we should have brought an experienced keeper in. With tM now only talking of maybe two players coming in, we now know that is not going to happen.
Hunt - Seems to have lost at least a yard of pace and his best days are well, well behind him. Fingers crossed that he's just getting up to speed, but I fear that he might just be another has-been who should be hanging up his boots.
The trend has been downwards, but I have thought it was just a blip. Yesterday was no blip. Yesterday was the worst of City, the ghost of bad performances past and it's not like we can just say it's a one off bad day at the office. That's 3 defeats in a row and that was so, so bad yesterday. How do you turn things around from that pile of dog crap?
Even more worrying next week is the loss of Vincelot to suspension. I know Fleck is back, but Vincelot is such a vital cog in all the good things we do. Who on earth have we got to replace Vincelot? Without him I fear for us next week at Port Vale. I really don't think Rose is that type of player at all is he?
We may not be a poor team, but we are certainly playing like one at the moment and with the defence that's all over the place, the loss of form of Murphy and the fact that teams have no seemingly sussed us out and know how to nullify us, you can't say anything but that's a big, big worry.
I wait with baited breath to see what happens tomorrow. 2 in maybe, but who's going out? What happens if one of them is Fleck? What then? The worry is that it maybe 2 in, 2 out, but that we need at least 3 in! We need as a minimum to my mind, a CB, a speedy, tricky winger who can get round the back of the fullbacks and another striker.
I have been so, so positive, but it really does seem like the wheels are coming off. What we do tomorrow now in the transfer windown has become so vital to how our season will pan out.
Do some really good business tomorrow and I will become much more positive again, but we must drop Ramage now and declare it an experiement that went horribly wrong and we need to sort out the Murphy loss of form situation, bring in a commading centre back and address how we support Armstrong up front, cos frankly, at the moment, the guy is wasted up there all by himself.
