We've had two coaches now who seem extremely reluctant to put Telalovic on the pitch, which probably says something. Does make you wonder what the recruitment team were thinking spending any of our limited money on him though. Might as well have kept Vale around - from memory he didn't go out on loan until 01/09, so we could have just decided to hold onto him if Telalovic was our only other achievable target.

Tronstad and Carter are probably the only players, excluding Sammie, who I'd somewhat trust in a starting eleven. The rest I have absolutely no faith in. Brittain and Hyam have, imv, shown their true mentality over the past five months and it's far from being good enough. Would have them out of the door to anyone wiling to buy for a decent price. JRC made of glass, has ability but not ever going to be reliable as a regular first teamer. The rest are largely players with a weak mentality who are, at best, somewhat consistent 6/10 or 7/10 players as long as the opposition doesn't score first or there aren't some scattered boos. Either of those things happens and it's game over for these lads. Not good enough if we have ambition - although granted we know Venky's and Waggot do not. Realistically we won't have the funds to clear out the squad, but it just means more disappointment next season, because I don't believe most of these lads are up to it. Most of them have had plenty of chances over the past three seasons and blown it in various ways. It's not a case of not trying, for most of them anyway, they just don't quite have the conviction and/or ability to make this club successful. We've collected a group of very soft players and it needs a huge shakeup to get us going again. I'm aware that won't happen, though, so assuming we scrape survival I'll enjoy the summer and, sadly, likely dread the beginning of next season.

Since December we've been a bottom three team - both in form and in terms of points collected. The points JDT gained us from August - November will, maybe, just about save us. It's been a truly abysmal five months. The quality is definitely not there, and unless there is a dramatic and ruthless clear out in the summer, followed by actual investment (one can dream), it will be even worse next season.

Agreed, if Sammie hadn't had a once in a career season we'd already be relegated. Probably not too long after Rotherham.

JRC can be very good creatively, but he's never really been consistent - again, though, I'd put a lot of that down to repeated injury disruption. His versatility may also hinder him somewhat as well, as it did with the likes of Phil Jones at United. Becoming a jack of all trades but master of none isn't ideal. It can work if you're a James Milner type with incredible fitness, but when you're injury prone as Jones was and JRC is then it becomes a bit more problematic. He's had a couple of games in CM where you think, yeah, he could be superb in this role. Unfortunately tends to be followed be a string of anonymous matches before getting injured. I'd agree that he's more effective in the RWB role, but it's a demanding position for somebody with a fragile body.

Been a purple patch player for some time, just harder to detect because he's also incredibly injury prone. When he's on form, he's really on form, but he's not consistent and at 24 he should be by now. Granted his regular injury layoffs won't help with that. Long story short, we can't rely on him, and that's a shame because a fully fit, consistent JRC would be a key player for us. I just don't think we'll ever get to see that.

Yeah, they'd been strong in the second half up until that point as well. Just seemed to collectively switch off when the corner was taken.

Wow, Hutchinson again. Hull give him all the time in the world, again, and he punishes them accordingly.

If we sell Sammie and continue to shop around the bargain basement then we're doing a Rotherham next season. Will be brutal. Venky's have been fortunate to have somebody step up each time a top goalscorer has left - Graham > Arma > BBD > Szmodics. Nobody from this squad is stepping up next season - I'm sure of that - and based on the dross our recruitment team has signed for the forward position on little-to-no budget I do not foresee a rabbit being pulled out of the hat by Broughton and co. So our only hope would be having some money available to invest in the team. If there's a small amount available and the recruitment team do better than identifying the likes of Leo for £800k type fees then maybe we scrape another season. Or maybe we don't. Ultimately the only way we genuinely progress is for Venky's to sell up, which seems like a distant dream at this point.

Could have had Batth on a free in the summer - instead we penny pinch based on his age and end up bringing in McFadz in January who is, what, four years older? And probably on a similar wage. Our recruitment team just cannot handle being on a limited budget. Granted I'm not sure they can handle being on a decent budget either, but we likely won't see that again under Venky's anyway.

Ipswich have a decent wage budget tbf, Brandon Williams was probably on a fair amount as well before he went AWOL. Not sure if they're still paying those wages or not. Anyway, they're similar to us under Mowbray in that they have the ability to pay decent loan wages/fees, as we did for the likes of Elliot, Tosin, Reed, etc... but less to spend on actual transfer fees. Where they differ from us is that they have owners who are ambitious and a manager who is a winner. Two things we can only dream of.

Honestly amazing what Rohl has done at Sheffield Wednesday. They'd only won a single match all season before beating our lot on December 2nd. They've gained 40 points since then. We've managed 22.

What a strike. Great time to get a goal.

Absolute shocker from the keeper and Morsy there. Just hoof it if there's no options. It's like players are brainwashed into being unable to lump it when common sense calls for it.

We're just cursed for as long as Venky's own us. They have the opposite of the midas touch when it comes to running a football club.

George Hirst firing Ipswich back to the Premier League. Lol.

A one man team. Szmodics fire blanks, so does the entire team.

When Wednesday beat us 3-1 in December we were 7th and they were bottom, 12 points adrift and 18 points behind us. We may well end up finishing below them. Incredible job Rohl has done there, but fuck me, Szmodics aside none of these players deserve to wear our colours again.

We need Venky's to do us a favour and fuck off, else scraping survival this season only ensures a much more miserable season next year.

And it'll be deserved. The owners deserve it. The CEO deserves it. The incompetent senior staff who can't do basic admin functions correctly deserve it. The manager and his cowardly tactics deserve it. The players and their spineless attitudes (Szmodics excluded) deserve it. The sizable amount of fans who worship Venky's and jump down the throats of anyone who dares call out the bullshit deserve it. The small section of the fan base who see through the charade don't deserve it, along with the employees of the club who don't fuck things up by being useless at what they are paid to do. Overall though, if we go down it's very much deserved.

Couldn't really be going any worse for us results wise.

Otherwise known as The Eustace Special.

You haven't factored in that we're fucking shit whenever we're expected to or need to get a result. But yeah, if we can't get something here then it'll sum us up nicely.

Cifuentes has done a spectacular job at QPR.

Not really, as you were implying your post was manually edited rather than changed by an old forum filter that was set a couple of years ago and evidently just forgotten about. The former suggests a nefarious intent, whilst the latter is far less so. The filter should be removed though.