We are basically playing without a striker now

I don’t suppose it really matters, but taking Gueye off is ridiculous.

Can’t wait for the 60min subs!

ALLEZ LES BLEURGH Great effort by the fans who have attended! Keep it up! This is what a team that’s been invested in looks like against our ragtag bunch. Eustace was performing literal miracles! I think the players are trying, they are just not good enough and it’s humiliating. Chronic underinvestment is coming home to roost.

Haven’t we beaten these guys away twice this season under Eustace??

Surely Ismael can’t be in control over the summer? I honestly don’t think I could cope with that. Should be 3-0. Genuinely hopeless.

I’m maybe being too hopeful, but I can see a shift in the way Waggott answered questions relating to the ownership. Previously the answers have always been very definitive with statements suggesting the club is absolutely not for sale and that the club is the owners baby blah blah blah. This time Waggott appears less sure saying that they have not been asked to seek investment and he has even gone as far as to say every team is potentially for sale with the right offer. I think there may have been a shift in their thinking…I’m clinging to this anyway!

Maybe he wowed Waggott with his knowledge of budget coach rental in the northwest.

You probably can’t extract too much meaning from manager interviews, but there is a complete lack of any substance in all his interviews. He just uses words like needing more ‘belief’ or ‘confidence’ and say we need to shoot and defend basically. You don’t need to be a football genius to work that out! I noticed similar on the behind the scenes training video from his time at Watford. He basically just shouted ‘intensity’ a few times. It surprises me that he outwitted 149 other candidates.

Surely even this lot won’t leave the summer rebuild to Valerian root? He has to go. Let the groundsman take the team until the end of the season. That’s if we haven’t sacked the groundsman to pay for Waggott’s sports car.

I’d argue that they still haven’t turned up!

A single win against any of the dross we’ve played and we’d only be 2 points off the playoffs. Utterly pathetic.

Maybe we could crowd fund his severance package??

On the plus side. We have made the relegation race a lot more interesting! It will only be fair if we give Luton 3 points in a couple of weeks too!

It’s important to point out that Ismael took over a top 6 team and had the most generous possible run of fixtures!

Not offering decent players a new contract is an incredible disincentive. Why would you bother putting your body on the line.

I’m pretty sure it will be 2-0 before the hour mark.

The two wins under Lowe could prove to be very important!

I suppose we will have to wait until 60mins for this to happen.

Is Gueye carrying an injury? I can’t see any fathomable reason for Woodrow to start unless this is the case.

Allez les Bleurgh

Losing might actually be the better outcome today and I have a pathological hatred of losing. Promotion is vanishingly unlikely given how poor we are at moment. A grim procession of defeats to finish off the season will turn up the heat further. It finally feels like there is some momentum and it would be just our luck for an upturn in fortune on the pitch to dampen the fan’s ire.

You have to feel for the recruitment team. Another summer where they are being asked to perform miracles. Now they have to shift focus to players who suit a possession based style and they probably have circa £1 million to sign 12 players. Rabbits out of hats springs to mind!

I admire Ismael’s arrogance. 2 weeks ago he was talking about the impressive team spirit and his hopes for the playoffs. We have lost 3 consecutive games against relegation strugglers and are now out of the race. A few days later and he’s selling this as a new beginning and we are supposed to swallow this up and be encouraged? We commence another rebuild with the architect of our recent capitulation at the helm. Established players leaving and cheap/spent/desperate replacements to come in. Do the club think today’s article is going to excite the fans? They must really think we are utterly thick. I suppose this means he sticks around even if we lose all our remaining fixtures. I cannot get my head around why he wants to employ a possession based game when he has always been a long ball type and we don’t have the players or the money to sign the necessary players? How can he see this job as the opportunity to suddenly become the next Pep.

Sadly I’m starting to think there’s nobody who could be the ‘man for the job’ anymore. We may be past the point of no return and we just have to wait for the owners to sell up.