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Markanday and Telalovic starting is horrifying. Needed freshening up though so let's hope they prove me wrong. Hyam and Hill at the back should be a very strong partnership.

We are dire at the moment so I expect another loss tomorrow. We are the softest team in the division and have got the balance all wrong this season. We have too many 'artists' and not enough 'soldiers', and the focus is entirely on playing attractive football and "creating value" in the playing squad rather than getting results. The season was a write off from day 1 in reality when the budget was slashed significantly and we didn't bring in any real quality in the transfer market. Your entire season often hinges on having a good summer window. Trondstad has been excellent and Hill has been good. Leo, Siggy, Moran, Ennis, and Telalovic have all been duds so far. The GK and striking options we have are probably up there with the worst in the division. We are missing Dolan up there, at least he is lively The problem has been allowing our best players to run down their contracts and leaving on a free. It's left us snookered with no money to replace them or to re-invest in the squad. And of course having Venkys as owners is a curse.

What are you supposed to do when you've got to replace your top goal scorer and GK with no money. No pot for transfer fees and wage budget cut by 20% is what he was working with.

8 goals (and counting) in the past 3 games is also a major problem. The style of football is too expansive for the calibre of player we have.

Owners are to blame for the disastrous summer window.

The display so far has been embarrassing enough!

Is there a club in this league with two worse GKs than us? Moran can't go back to Brighton soon enough. Siggy and Ennis non-existent as usual. Poor summer window really biting us now.

Leo is rubbish. The rest are not that good either.

Not far off our strongest team.

Think we'll lose today. We rarely do well in boxing day fixtures and we're in awful form.

Squad depth and quality. We don't have a striker for one. There's only so long you can get away with that.

Love this club but it's going absolutely nowhere. It makes it a pretty dull club to follow with very little to get excited about. For me, we need to sell Wharton in the summer and buy 3-4 experienced championship players. This season already feels like a write off. I know we're only 5 points off top 6 but in reality we're miles off it.

Predicable. No bench today meant the final 15 would be impossible for us. Mid table this season unfortunately.

What a huge effort this has been so far. A makeshift team doing the business. The fans have been magnificent. A shame we cannot get this many in regularly.

Glad he's signed permanently. He clearly wants to play at a higher level within the next 2 years hence the short deal.

Think he will sign permanently which is good news. He's not been as good as I expected but he does have that little bit of quality in front of goal that many of our other players don't have. I hoped his style would be more electric though, he often opts for a backwards or sideways pass rather than taking players on.

More evidence that the only ambition of the club is to stay in the championship and develop young players. Such a lack of ambition at the club. We have to make a decision whether to trigger the year long extension on Gally's contract over the next few months. Given his injury record, lack of goals, and significant wages, it should be an easy decision.

Awful from start to finish.

Only positive is that the sending off won't impact the result anyway. We've got nowhere near them all game. They are head and shoulders above us.

Gets boxing day off now. I would suggest that's not a coincidence given how blatant the kicking of the ball away.

Give him a huge fine. Mindless.

It's a slight GK error but more blame is on Wharton. Obvious what their guy was trying to do so you gotta be wise to it and muscle him out of the way. Instead, both Wharton and Leo were taken out of the game.

Worst 45 of the season. No effort, desire, or belief. Not one player believes we can get a result today based on the body language from minute one.

The Leicester game was an entertaining game to watch. It wasn't boring and we "gave it a good go" as they say.

How are they contradictory? I think it will be an exciting game to watch but we'll probably lose.