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By that logic could you just sign eleven able bodied lads from he pub, get Guardiola in and eventually win the Champions League?

Of course, it was abysmal, but you'd expect your goalie to make up for it. Who was that player who climbs on Wharton as he's about to jump for the ball then misses it anyway? Utterly fucking bizarre to make sure your own better equipped CB can't jump for it. Edit. I've just realised it's Hyam! That's even worse. Ffs.

He doesn't sign anyone. He asks for a decent player in a certain position then he's told he's got to pick barrel scraping 1 or barrel scraping 2. I imagine all he can possibly do is "ip dip" and hope for the best. Or like last January, he asked for a decent striker, got a decent midfielder, then got neither.

Several players staring at Wahlstedt wondering what the ****? Even in the absence of adequate defending that ball was able to be dealt with by the keeper.

He's been a bad player since Mowbray bought him and in every system we've played. He's better going forward and sometimes has a good game where he'll surprise with a good tackle or block. I can imagine he was much better in L1 so if that's where we're heading perhaps we'll need him.

The same Owen Coyle eleven that included Raya, Mulgrew, Lenihan, Conway and Danny Graham.

The defence wasn't great last year, and this year it's a worse squad with a very poor keeper. Like I said we've been able to carry players like Pickering in the past but now we're having to rely on such players to be our senior presence in the team. It's costing us a lot more than it has in the past.

Thanks, sometimes I think I'm on a different planet. I've watched Pickering be awful in most games since he arrived. Brittain sometimes even worse on the opposite side. And then a goalie who is now contributing to conceding two goals a game. We've got away with carrying players in the past, but it's important to add - with little actual success. We were never going to continue getting away with it when the cost cutting is getting worse and worse.

Shit full backs and a shit goalie is the main reason we've conceded the most goals in the league. I'm not sure why it's such a surprise. Pickering has been poor since we bought him (3 years ago was it?), and last season apart from a few spirited early performances, most of this board were unconvinced with Brittain's defensive qualities. Now we've added a bloke in goal who looks like he's won a competition. Combine that with losing JRC who took a lot of pressure from the defence and it's easy to see why we're conceding a lot of goals.

Venkys won't sign that kind of player. They've been interfering in team affairs since the beginning.

I've always thought a defensive unit with Brittain, Carter and Pickering was a poor defensive unit on paper and pitch. At a normal club some of their performances last season would have led to one or two of our fullbacks being offloaded. Brittain has never convinced as a defender and like Pickering is better going forward. I've always thought Pickering is an awful fullback. Carter, like Hyam, is better when he's got someone reliable next to him. Hyam is the best of them but is too quiet to command the area and needs an experienced partner. S Wharton has never been the same since coming back from injury. He was fantastic prior to that, I thought he was going to be the new Colin Hendry. Sadly he now looks nervy and doesn't seem to be able to react quickly enough. I feel sorry for the lad as he's got talent but seems unable to access it at present. Adam Wharton shouldn't be playing every game. Too much too soon. We've conceded the most goals because we have a poor squad. It was unbalanced under Mowbray and now it's been left to rot. We simply can't carry that many misfiring, poor or inexperienced players.

I saw it on Facebook so maybe I misread it or it was misquoted.

There was unrest in the team before the end of last season when the word was out about the budget cuts and Waggott wanting to sell anyone of any worth, and release anyone on decent wages. They all knew it.

Most of which wouldn’t be on the pitch if it wasn’t for the owners. It didn’t happen overnight.

Two full backs, an experienced CB and a striker. Didn’t Broughton say 5 additional incomings to add to the ones already in? In any case with our budget we’ll be lucky if we get one good player out of those five.

Why is that his fault? He’s our main goalie through no fault of his own. Though I’d be happy to stick our tallest youngster in goal right now. Failing that just dig out Tony’s tombola, including kit man and groundskeeper. Or stick a wig on a cone.

He probably is, but in terms of his power to sack or appoint a manager, he has none.

Last season it wasn't much better.

Waggott has absolutely no power to can anyone or appoint anyone.

Yes the players in front of him have been shit too, but taking the last goal as an example, his legs didn't even leave the ground. I've only seen the goal once but from what I saw, it was right at him and it was so bizarre that he just stayed rooted to the ground and threw his arms up.

Questions need to be asked about the recruitment and transfer fee of LW when we haven't a pot to piss in. He'd struggle in L2 and no doubt there are L2 goalies who would do far better.

The defending is awful, but Wahlstedt is truly terrible. Did he even jump? Right over his head!

I've always thought Hyam is good when he's alongside another good player/or player in form. He's too quiet to be the leader of the two. He's also probably not match fit at the moment and as you say not helped with having potentially the worst goalie we've ever had.

Fair enough, I just don't see how changing formation will do anything when we're forced to rely on kids and freebies.

Wanting Travis in the team and solve our problems is like expecting Gallagher is going to come back and start knocking them in regularly. They both needed replacing long before this manager came along. As for the formation, I've seen Travis play as one of 2 holding mids and we were shit then too. I think the only answer is to have owners who actually give a shit. Actually, we had owners who couldn't give a shit before Venkys, but they had the decency to employ people who did give a shit in their absence. And that's the difference.