The thing is, the result and performance in isolation isn't so bad. People were predicting we'd get thumped and we "only" lost 2-0 and remained fairly competitive for most of the match. Fine. Fulham have a lot of top Championship players so you can accept that. But no shots on target? That is unacceptable. In the first two matches we've had 23 shots on goal 2 have been on target. That's a dire 8.7%. Danny Graham has to start the next match. Not saying any of this is Gallagher's fault but we need somebody on the pitch who can shoot between the goalposts and the crossbar, and none of our current lot are doing that. If we don't start hitting the target and continue conceding two goals a game we are going down, it's that simple.

Mowbray is just a very poor tactician tbh. He knows one style and if that doesn't work he's flummoxed. His attempts at trying three at the back have always been comical, with the lads looking like they'd had the formation sprung on them as they exited the tunnel.

Trying to be optimistic here lads. Jeez.

Two shots on target in 180 minutes of football. One goal. Four conceded. No points. Great start to the season.

Good teams make their own luck. Not getting a single shot on target isn't unlucky. Big performance needed in the second half. Get Graham on.

Early indications suggest you shouldn't get your hopes up. 45 minutes to try and salvage something from the first two games of the season, even if it's only a point. Parker's Fulham are there for the taking but concede again and it's game over. With that said don't we have a horrifically poor record in recent times of coming from behind to get anything from games? Also thus far no shots on target... Do we practice shooting in training? Only managed two out of fourteen on target last week. Suffice to say we aren't last season's Norwich. We'll be doing well when we hit the target with one of our shots. Literally can't score otherwise. Get Danny Graham on the pitch ffs, at least he has a track record of scoring.

Same old pattern. We look half decent then concede. The more people posted about how well we were playing the more i knew the inevitable was coming. Wonder how many clean sheets we'll get this season? More than single figures?

I'm sure they exist but I'd advise against asking for them here, or...

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Might be why Tony has started him to be fair. Laughing maniacally as he penned Rothwell's name onto the team sheet.

And this is why many of us voted the transfer window as bad rather than average.

Pleasantly surprised to see Rothwell starting. Also surprised Gallagher retains his place.

Lenihan has had serious injury issues for two seasons in a row so Tony can't cry bad luck on this one I'm afraid. That's assuming he is injured and there aren't other reasons behind he and Nyambe's absence.

Nope, it's just taking a common thread between the two clubs and stripping it of all context. Reductio ad absurdum. Leeds don't need to throw new players in straight away because they already have a good team that regularly wins matches. We don't. They don't have a pressing need for new, better players and we do, so the 'correct' choice is not just one option for all scenarios.

They won their opening game 3-1 and came 3rd last season so it's not exactly the same situation, is it?

Have to admit I don't think it was necessary to say that either. Not sure what he thinks being so dismissive will achieve. He could have just as easily said "we've got a young lad with potential who had an excellent season out on loan last year, and now an experienced Championship left back in the squad as well, so competition for that place is really solid". I'd disagree with him but it gets the point across without throwing in the dismissive "boy who was on loan at Southend" remark which comes across a bit snidey. I don't know if he just doesn't think before he speaks or whether he gets a kick out of talking down our youngsters.

Mowbray has said his preference is to let the dressing room police itself, so I imagine the likes of Mulgrew, Bennett, Graham, Evans, etc have a fair bit of stroke. All good until the team hits a bad run of form, or a popular player is sold, and those same players decide the manager is more of a problem than they are. At that point it's game over.

Yeah, but unlike Conway we seem to have signed Downing as a first team player, which is keeping the likes of Rothwell out. Not sure I see that as a positive tbh. Very short term.

Make a couple of adjustments (bolded) and I still argue it looks better than our normal first team.

What formo do Fulham play? Would have made sense for the second team to have been mirroring that...

Good to see our £7m striker being trained on left wing. Smallwood meanwhile can't even get into the team in an 11 v 11 training match. Also am I the only one who thinks the second team looks arguably better than the first team, Evans aside?

I wish we could loan Mowbray out.

Ffs. How is Tosin not ready before Williams? Or is the plan for him to be backup to Williams? I can only laugh if so.

Possibly. We know it annoyed Mowbray.