Is Tronstad even playing? Another one doing nothing and getting away with murder.

Great save by Pears. Pickering AWOL as usual.

Haven't really troubled their keeper though.

Unless we go 2 up top Ohashi needs to be told to stay central. When he drifts wide there's no one to pass to in the middle.

Brittain hasn't been as bad as normal but I think the quality of his attacking output is vastly over rated. Can't defend either. Pickering a massive downgrade on Beck unfortunately.

Yeah, we're only fourteen and a half games in and dropping fast. We're 22nd in the form table.

392 minutes without a goal. Sooner or later Eustace is going to have to throw caution to the wind and get 2 forwards on up front. If he won't do it at home against a middle to lower ranking side it's difficult to say when he will do it.

He's shocking every week and has done the square root of fuck all ever since he joined the Club. Picks up his wage for nothing like quite a few over the years.

Ohashi is showing up quite well his movement has been very good and he's been finding space well but we need another forward playing close to and off him or vice versa. The two so called wingers are dire. You can see how this is going to go. Having failed to capitalise on our initial dominance, we'll get sucker punched at some point.

Only seen it the once but it didn't look off anyway I didn't think.

Luton? Yeah right. Not sure about Cardiff and Preston either and I'd say Plymouth have better forwards. I'll give you Portsmouth.

Thought Virgin red button wasn't working as usual - its just come on at the last minute- don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Can't believe Hedges is starting - yet again. The manager needed to try something different and go 2 up top given the (non) scoring run we're on.

Fun fact: Since beating us Plymouth (who are in the relegation places) have lost 5-0, 1-0, drawn 3-3 at home against Preston after being 3 down and are 3-0 down in the first half at Leeds.

I think I know what you mean but what's an "alibi player" ?

He's better than Hedges who doesn't even resemble a professional footballer imo.

347 minutes since we scored a goal.

Looks like the annual death spiral has started even earlier than usual this season. Difficult to see anything other than another narrow escape from relegation - at best - the difference however being that this rather insipid bunch don't have Szmodics to bail them out this time round. What's happened to the lad from Brighton? Is he injured? Him and Baker seem to be totally wasted signings - why agree to them coming in if you're not going to play them?

True........ but at 2-0 down, why on earth would you swap one striker for another? Beggars belief.

How the hell does Hedges keep getting in the side?

Didn't see yesterday's game but listened to the live commentary on Talksport 2 whilst I was driving and it seems obvious we now look as though we haven't got a goal in us. Going to be a long hard grind to 50 points regardless of our deceptively good start I fear. When's the next install.ent of the Indian Court Case due? I wonder what the excuse for not spending any money will be if the requirement to provide personal guarantees to cover funds sent over is lifted on that date.

Hedges always is for me. Don't know what any manager sees in him.

The trouble with O Mara was that despite being 6 ft 3 he was like Sam Gallagher relatively poor in the air for his size and jumped about five foot 8. Agree we need to try getting more crosses in when Gueye is on the pitch.

That's probably fair as well, I was a fan of JDT although you can't just "sign off" because you're not happy with stuff.

Why does thinking Eustace is doing a good job on a negligible budget make you a "Venkys enthusiast"?

You're right. JDT is the man for a champagne budget. For a chronically under resourced Championship Club having to get by on scraps, Eustace would appear to be the far better option.