DE.

Generous.

At this rate Fulham could beat us 7-0 again. We're as bad now as we were back then. Maybe it'd kick start another revival?

It's truly amazing how ineffective we are. It's like watching a training game of attack vs defence, with us obviously being the latter.

Yep, we're at peak Mowbray death spiral right now.

For all the talk of WBA being there for the taking, they'll be thinking the same about us.

Criminal half from JRC. Bucko and Rothwell useless once again going forward. Diaz the best of the lot attacking wise. The only one who looks to have any confidence or desire. Defence has been OK. No major scares. Looking like 2 goals in 8 games as it stands.

Yeah, but on the other hand Giles' set piece delivery has been pretty disappointing since he got here. I was expecting much better on that front.

JRC again... awful. Even the commentator on my stream making note of how bad he's been.

Not sure if Giles was massively overhyped on here when he was signed or whether our attacking shape is so bad he has nothing to work with.

Get JRC off at half time. Lad is absolutely useless.

To be honest I think we are as well. Critically short of confidence and it shows, our attackers are playing like the ball is giving them an electric shock every time they touch it. Barely able to control it or keep possession. We seem to have totally lost shape and rhythm now, giving the ball back to them repeatedly. Only going one way as things stand.

Rothwell has been so poor since the Bournemouth fiasco.

Time to stop the long diagonal balls if we can't aim them properly. That's three times they've sailed out of play now.

Bright but clumsy start. Some shocking final balls so far. Need to try and compose ourselves a bit. WBA have been terrible so far.

We all know Ayala doesn't play in the winter months. A few cameos at best.

No, because going behind under Mowbray is basically akin to defeat. At best we're getting a point if we go behind. I imagine you could count on one hand the number of times we've come back from conceding the first goal to actually win under TM.

No chance. It was crazy we even managed to climb up to 2nd in the first place, on the back of an incredible run of form from BBD and incompetence from Parker. Looks like Bournemouth may have bought enough players to make up for his managerial inadequacies and get them over the line. Should they go up though it'll be Fulham all over again, except Bournemouth may not keep Parker until the season's end. Imagine he'll be gone by Christmas. Barnsley picking up only their 4th win of the season against QPR is unexpected to say the least. Looks like they deserved it too. Reading lose their 7th game in a row, with 6 points deducted, and are still 2 points clear of the bottom three. Make of that what you will.

If we don't go up I'm ready for a change, even if we finish in the playoff positions. I haven't forgotten Mowbray inciting the fans to argue with each other on the terraces when small sections started to get on his back before Christmas. For me that in of itself was enough to want him gone - irresponsible and childish behaviour. There have been other incidents, but that one in particular I find very hard to get past. Trying to pit the fans against each other is extremely poor behaviour from the club's manager, to say the least. I won't argue against the idea that he's done a good job getting us into the position we're in this season, but there are a lot of managers who have had excellent one off seasons which don't represent their actual ability. Owen Coyle for one. Mowbray is well above Coyle but the general point remains that this kind of thing does happen for certain clubs sometimes. Shrewsbury had a very similar situation during our League 1 campaign - Paul Hurst then went on to tank Ipswich into oblivion and now manages Grimsby in the non-leagues. If we finish outside of the playoffs then of course he should be shown the door as soon as it's mathematically impossible for us to reach 6th. That would be a monumental screw up, eclipsing the 2 wins in 17 disaster which nuked any chance of playoff contention last season.

Khadra isn't a full game player yet. Has some excellent moments and periods during games. When off-form is basically a passenger. He's only 20, though, so we have to expect this type of inconsistency when loaning young, creative players.

Will be surprised if we score more than a couple in those fixtures. Mental how we've gone from scoring so many to suddenly looking like the most inept team in the Championship in front of goal. We must be up there at this point! 2 goals in 7 games. Could easily see it becoming 2 in 12 at this rate. We really are dire.

It's just a question of how far we fall now.

High-press, cede possession to the opponent, counter with speed, keep things tight at the back. Works with the right personnel, as proven by our rise to 2nd. A few players injured and off-form, however, and we have no response. No adaptability. We've gone from second highest scorers in the division to looking like we'd fail to score even if the opposition played without a goalkeeper.

Amazing how quickly things can unravel when you have a manager that has no Plan B when Plan A begins to falter.

We all know what the general odds are of us winning the match once we go a goal down. Forget automatic, we just need to pray we're still in the top six when this emerging death spiral eventually ends.

I misspoke there, as I was actually referring to Watford/Newcastle/Norwich, so not the bottom three, but rather three of the bottom four. You could probably argue Watford haven't really 'woken up' either at this point, but I do think hiring Roy gives them more of a chance than sticking with Ranieri.