A really hard earned point which many would have taken at 7.45. It was a game that Eustace set us up not to lose which I completely understand. At times we were like the away team as we sat in and played on the break. I thought some of the changes we made should have happened sooner as it appeared a few were struggling. Hopefully Carter isn't going to be missing for too long but I fear the worst having seen him being helped around the pitch. With McFadzean out all of a sudden we are struggling for centre halves. The clean sheet is a big plus tonight and that's five for the season now. Keeping clean sheets in the Championship is one way to success. With the games coming thick and fast now I really think Eustace has to rotate his squad a bit more.

But he was good enough to come on in the cauldron of Turf Moor.

Why when it's what I believe. One of my gripes with Eustace is that he prefers experience and that's all well and good in some situations but in this instance his reluctance to play a natural right back hung Carter out to dry and contributed to a couple of defeats.

One of the reasons for a lack of footfall is the clubs insistence on the move to digital tickets. I would go in and buy them and have a browse in the shop. I still go in to pick away tickets up (there is an option to have them posted) but many don't. In my view this has contributed to the closing of the shop on Mondays and reduced opening hours for the rest of the week. I think the club would spin it another way but the coincidence of the two is there to see

1200+ West Brom fans are expected but once again no sales on the day to away fans.

In the right back debate everyone seems to have missed the player who I believe is the best right back at the club. Leo Duru is ahead of Brittain, JRC and Carter but continues to be over by the manager. He was outstanding yesterday for the under 21's.

He is a first year scholar so 16 possibly 17. I think it was his debut at under 21 level and it took a few minutes to get used to the pace but once he settled he was good.

A really enjoyable match at Accrington where a young Rovers team played some really good stuff and the goals were excellent. We rode our luck and were generally second best in the first half but went in one up. A smart substitution at half time have us a more solid look but we conceded early on to a great strike. Impressively the youngsters didn't let their heads drop and scored from two fast, flowing moves. By the final whistle we had three first year scholars playing, another testimony to the great work at the Academy.

We have had pretty much four thousand plus walk ons for every home game so far. It must be unusual for a Championship club to consistently have approximately 50% of its home crowd as non season ticket holders. And it appears the club aren't doing much to turn these walk ons into season ticket holders.

Ipswich are a prime example of a winning culture after years of stagnation. Two promotions and could probably sell their ground out twice over. They will only survive by accruing enough points and that includes winning. Being a yo-yo club involves winning games too you know. How is promotion achieved?

Pretty much everything at a professional football club is measured by winning games. Bigger crowds, commercial revenue and lots of other things are by products of winning.

The objective in any football match is winning and we did just that. Of course I would have liked a performance with panache and exhilarating football but that costs a lot of money. The first half of last season we saw lots of exciting play but invariably drew or lost. I will take a scabby, scruffy win any day of the week. After a hugely disappointing defeat at Plymouth I was interested to read the managers comments about the game plan and keeping it tight for an hour and then bringing on some attack minded players. An early Plymouth goal put paid to that. Yesterday seemed to be the converse of this as we scored early and were then content (but not entirely comfortable) to defend and play on the break. It's a risky tactic but when it works then in my view we can't have too much cause for complaint. Playing players in their best positions helped us yesterday particularly defensively. Hopefully Eustace has learned from his errors in recent weeks in this respect. I'm sure that on their five hour journey home Swansea fans would have been delighted with a scruffy win rather than seeing lots of pretty patterns and no end product. Each to their own I suppose.

Whilst I don't agree with your entire post I absolutely agree that Eustace has to take the lions share of blame for Saturday. Selection and tactics in the wake of an abysmal performance at Coventry should have been so different.

I have said many times that what lets him down more than anything is his decision making. Quite how you coach that out (or in) to a player I don't know.

Yep. All this nonsense has come out of a classroom when coaching courses are being run. It's bollocks. As you say if the player is a defensive midfielder just say it rather than trying to sound smart and condescending.

What is it with the modern game and specialist coaches? A big thing was made about Austin McPhee, Villa's specialist and their set pieces were awful. Carragher was laughing as he likened one routine to Strictly Come Dancing.

Looking at your avatar reminded me that yesterday I bought a steak pasty outside the ground. It was massive, so much so that I cut it in half for me and my granddaughter and neither of us finished it.

Free admission for anybody going to Altrincham on Tuesday. https://altrinchamfc.com/blogs/news/free-entry-for-all-after-alty-land-sponsorship-deal-for-cup-opener

Getting a result away from home is palatable as we did at Norwich, Burnley and Preston. It's when the methods don't work like at Coventry and yesterday that questions are asked and a fear I have is that Eustace isn't radical enough to make big changes to both tactics and personnel. Hopefully I'm proved wrong over the next few weeks.

For me Cozier-Duberry should have started yesterday. With him and Cantwell on from the start we could have got at them rather than sitting in to accommodate the game plan. I would rather defend a one goal lead later in the game rather than chase the game and he susceptible to a counter attack. If we are going to execute the game plan that Eustace had then why not go with a back five like we did at Leeds and Leicester last season?

I think that the three managers he has played under here will have seen how erratic his decision making is and tried to change him. His fancy flicks, too many touches, losing possession, turning into trouble and other things are part of his make up now and I don't believe he has the wherewithal to change. For me it's time to get rid and I would be looking to sell him in January if there are any suitors.

If Eustace had drummed this 'keep it tight for an hour' into the players it becomes a mindset for them. Once they scored an early goal that game plan goes out of the window and tactics should have changed to take that into account. But they didn't and the effect of going one down was there for all to see. We did get on the front foot after the changes but why not go with that (or a variation of it) from the start. Eustace has to accept his culpability here.

And that game plan is all well and good providing you don't concede the first goal. It's a bit insulting to me for Eustace to come out with that when most of us are still hurting. He should be coming out and saying he got aspects of the game wrong like selection and tactics - I'd have far more respect for him if he did. Or is he exonerating himself and putting it on the players?

Well said that man.