Ghost7

Imagine being a player playing for a football club where poor results have no consequences, witnessing again and again terrible runs of form that would seemingly be allowed to go on forever. A club where the man in charge will sympathise with your failure to perform year after year and owners where the cost of success is an inconvenience to them. A club where half of the fans think we should be grateful or happy to still exist since 2010. Are you really giving 110% every week and are you going to do absolutely everything possible to turn around a bad run of form? Do you need to perform consistently each week? Probably not. If this season has done anything it's proved that we'll never reach the top under the current ownership. It has to start off the pitch, you can go further with worse players than we have if you get it right in the boardroom and on the training ground. Waggott out, Mowbray out but most importantly Venky's out!

It's not my job to decide and that is part of the problem the club has, there is no one making these kind of decisions either. Just a set of mates keeping their heads down. If the point you're getting at is we won't do any better, I agree, I have zero faith in any decision maker involved with the club, which is ultimately why we're probably about to miss out on a playoff spot somehow. Until we get it right off the pitch we'll never get it right on it.

Any manager capable of reacting tactically to poor form. If that's a stand in then sobeit.

Mowbray should not be in charge of this fixture.

100%. The real problem.

Mowbray and anyone else at the club involved in transfers, tactics and team selection have no one else to blame other than themselves. An unforgivable second half of the season and it will be a fitting farewell to a tenure of mediocracy come May. The big worry is our totally incompetent and indifferent owners will not know what to do next. We need to hear from them and we need to see some big decisions made quickly and correctly. Can they do it? Well, we haven't seen it in 12 years... If they knew what they were doing they would be working on a replacement CEO and manager to be announced May 1.

Finger on the pulse from Sheff Utd. They must be a bit short and have something to play for... !

Yet some deluded fans will still say we're lucky to have them. How can any football club be lucky to have owners that have zero interest in funding or improving infrastructure. If your facilities are deteriorating or being left behind by new standards then your owners are a problem. It really is as simple as that in this day and age.

Appalling manager.

This is what we keep seeing week after week. Mind numbing ideas from the manager. It’s a farce! We haven’t scored enough with this setup across a massive amount of games now. Are we really expecting the goals to start coming without any kind of change? The playoffs certainly don’t allow for that kind of passiveness. Sorry to say it but we absolutely do not have what it takes.

Partly but I find it difficult to be critical of any player until they're playing in their natural position. Didn't Mowbray play Armstrong as a wide forward for years and we thought he was crap too? The current scenario is - key player gets injured and we just carry on as is expecting someone else to play well in an unnatural position instead of having a plan B shape wise to play to an available players' strengths. Buckley will not get you goals, we know that, we've seen it many times recently. It might look nice but he's very clearly not a goalscorer. Giles and Dolan should have been peppering Gallagher tonight in the middle at some stage to see if he could do the business. Who saw Gallagher - Buckley - Giles on the team sheet in that order and thought we would score from open play tonight? Maybe Mowbray, although I'm not sure why if he was at the previous 7 matches. It shouldn't have been left like that for so long. The manager is constantly misusing the attackers he has available and the result is over 12 hours of football without a goal from open play.

This. It's criminal and some fans still say we didn't need one even after not scoring for so long. Everyone could see that if Brereton got injured that was it. Markanday got injured and we didn't respond to that like a team in 2nd place usually would. We were a signing down at that point. Hedges wasn't the answer and I think most suspected that, he was a target for a team that wanted to avoid relegation from the Championship... not see through a promotion. The expectations changed but we didn't try to better ourselves, it was a signing that lacked ambition from the very beginning. We have a squad of players that's been completely let down by poor recruitment in January and stubborn tactics in February. It's painful to watch and has cost us 10 or 12 points.

Cameron Archer was the kind of signing we needed. We'd probably still be second now.

Our refusal to play with an ST/ CF is costing us points and has probably already cost us any hope of promotion. We've essentially tactically chosen not to score from open play in 12 hours of football. We've had a great season but the blame for those costly stats largely lies with a very stubborn manager and poor January signings. Carry on like this and there would be no point getting in the playoffs anyway.

Missing out on transfer targets isn’t a excuse it’s a failure by anyone involved particularly if you don’t move on to another target for the position that needs filling and get them! I’m absolutely sick of fans saying “but we offered x for him” or “we wanted x but he joined x instead” that is a recruitment failure no matter how they try to dress it up - unless you can say “so we got x instead”. We blew it in Jan and very naively / bizarrely didn’t think we needed to strengthen all over to get promotion.

The lack of investment in January or whoever was responsible for bringing in players that couldn't make an immediate impact on the starting 11 has let current group down. It seems to be a combination of recruitment team, manager and owners. There was a huge amount of effort tonight, it was just missing that extra bit of quality to kill it off. An extra 500,000 - £1m spent could have done it, who knows! Instead we've been left hoping the bounce goes our way in "17 cup finals" and that nobody gets injured. To get promoted you have to control it, if we go up it will be an absolute miracle - deserved by the players but completely undeserved for the not very savvy and uninterested owners. It's worth remembering we felt their current investment or lack of was going to get us relegated this season, that is the expectation with their current rate of investment in permanent singings. The players are defying the odds and this is still largely thanks to Jack Walker... but sadly the reality is that we still aren't set up right to execute or expect a promotion.

Wasn't this fee agreed based on a Rothwell sale? I think it's very kind to say the owner's are showing ambition after all recent windows. It seems to always be the bare minimum.

This miss was worse than Swansea for sure. It was a simple, simple finish and the keeper shouldn't have stood a chance. He should not be playing in that position now unfortunately and I'd consider dropping him for the next game, unless he's going to start putting his foot through the ball properly!

Our defenders are chasing opposition players deep into their half to commit fouls and pick up yellow cards. Is that discussed in training? Seems bizarre when there is no threat. It was happening a lot against Swansea too leaving the back line all over the place at times. Surely this is an alarm bell that something isn't working on the day and an extra tackler is needed in the middle i.e. Davenport or Johnson... or perhaps... a change in shape during a game Tony?

Only ourselves to blame... and the owner's of course but a terrible, terrible performance.

I think the reality is we're overachieving and being found out... it was never going to last, this is why January was so important. It's a miracle we are where we are and had to take advantage of that by spending. We didn't, end of story.

We're losing this in the middle. It was clear after the game against Hull that we desperately needed a better central midfielder imo (even with Travis back) and ideally rotate Rothwell/ Buckley. The January window was a massive opportunity missed no matter how you try to dress it. If we weren't getting a number 9 we had to get a CM.

he lethargically tries to pass everything into the net like he's in an under u18s training game. Needs to stop.

He seems to side foot most shots high and wide no matter the distance. Definitely a part of his game that needs drastic improvement and quickly. If he can figure that out he'll be some player...

I've just watched Ryan Giles cross a football for 90 minutes. Really poor tactics executed well.