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He seems like a liability from the few corners they put in and was responsible for the goal.

Its been coming for weeks.

The same person also thinks that Ryan Hedges deserves a new deal so standards are very low.

Also please ask about why after a spell of renewing contracts under Broughton, that Gestede has failed to sort one single one out.

Todays transfer update from Eustace is not that we are close to signing anyone. Not that we will need one or two more than planned now our midfield and defence which have been the strength of our team is falling apart. Just that he is "hopeful" that we will strengthen at all. He seems frustrated.

Travis, Tronstad, Brittain, Batth have all played game after game and the strain of having a small squad has led to these injuries. The likes of Carter, Pickering and Sigurdsson (not that we miss him) are injury prone anyway. And as has been the case for years, hence the constant second half of the season declines, when you peel beyond our first 11 our squad players are nowhere near good enough. Forshaw, Buckley, Hedges etc. Not Championship standard. We will fall soon out of top 6 contention. Gueye's general play was good. His finishing is very bad.

What does that even mean? In his last season we sold a player he signed for £3m for £15m, they didnt reinvest anything, they wouldnt give him a reasonable budget in January or even allow him to trade to get a budget, and then we ran out of steam. And then that lack of funding has continued since. He left us in a better position than he took us over in. Im sure he did want promotion and a pay rise, he just wasnt capable.

Dread to think what the team will be. Bristol City will be expecting their easiest 3 points of the season. Our attack has failed to score in 5 of the last 8 games and our defence is ridden with injuries and has gone from being incredibly well protected to likely the flimsiest midfield pairing in the league

On a night when we lose and our small fragile squad continues to disintegrate, you choose to focus partially on someone who managed us seasons ago, describing him as "despicable" and justifying it with illogical nonsense. The owners deserve all of the blame.

The team we will field at the weekend is beyond worrying and its very difficult to give us a hope of a result. The squad is falling apart because of a lack of quality and crucially depth. We are in terrible form and our players are falling apart due to over playing leaving us with a skeleton squad. Its happened over the last 3 seasons causing a tailspin in the second half of the season and it is happening again. There was a lack of quality on show throughout. Hedges, Buckley, Forshaw, Dolan etc all not up to standard. Gueye could still be out there now and would still not have scored.

Its not down to luck that we didnt put the chances away. Its a lack of quality due to a lack of investment. Our attack that started has 6 goals between 4 players all season. We havent scored in 5 of our last 8 league games.

Despicable? Get a grip. Nothing makes more sense for a man intent on lining his pockets (like all managers) than purposely avoiding a considerable pay rise, bonus and likely new contract upon promotion. The blame is solely with the owners.

Been a big push on the expectations of relegation in recent days. Play offs my arse.

Terrible night and the embodiment of years of lack of funding leaving a paper thin squad full of journeymen and players not up to it falling to bits. Eustace has done so well to get this rag tag bunch as high as we are but you can already see us preparing to slide well away. Gueye deserved man of the match and @Tom has pre empted my comments. The one player with any urgency, some excellent link play but wouldnt score if we played for another 24 hours. His shots with his feet are always telegraphed, poorly hit and never in the corners. Some of the others that deserve a mention. Ryan Hedges, how can anyone defend him, he offers absolutely nothing at all. John Buckley, a half decent display seems to have tricked some people into thinking hes anywhere near good enough, hes not, every time he gets the ball he takes 2 or 3 touches minimum more than is necessary and just loses all momentum. Rankin Costello was falling to pieces at the end and is not a central midfielder. Adam Forshaw is a joke of a signing. Toth straight off the Wahlstedt conveyor belt. Hard to find any positives tonight if any.

Thats us playing well?

Its not the only thing that matters, even if it is clearly the most important. We have 4 crucial games between now and then, if you include QPR the day after deadline day when no last ditch signings will likely play. A nice run of games on paper, and there are only 15 games after that If we struggle in these 4 those play off aspirations could really diminish.

That puts us on 82 points from 28 games I think (you did have us down for a draw once).

You can only have 5 in a matchday squad and we already have 3.

I never said theres nothing anyone else would want. Just no potential big sales.

You will always sign some duds and it only takes one or two big sales to cover them. Im not even suggesting signing players for £7m and £5m but forgetting the contract side, the owners stupidly rejected a combined total of £12m for Brereton and Rothwell with 12 and 6 months left on their deals. We wont get regular sales without reasonable investment. Everything worth selling has been sold.

But if you buy players, you then set yourself up to sell them at a profit, reducing the losses. Its not as if any money invested in players is just money out and then thats the end of it. Had we not spent £5m on Armstrong and Szmodics we wouldnt have generated £24m or whatever it was.

Quality?

You dont know that he wants to keep them or not. No one does. He isnt going to come out and say about any player that he wants them to go. McFadzean is going and he has waxed lyrical about him despite allowing him to play a minute all season. He didnt play Sigurdsson earlier in the season when we had very limited attackers, he has only played Buckley since he had no other option, he clearly doesnt rate every player. In the media hes obviously going to big everyone up to keep everyone happy, basic man management. I dont get why you think that if you want the manager to have the final say, it means you have to agree with every single decision he makes.

How do you know that Eustace wants all of the players to stay? You have just made that up. But even so, you clearly cant fathom that yes, Eustace should have final say. But that doesnt mean that people have to agree with and justify every decision he makes. I reckon if he was told he could have a couple of extra signings but he would have to sacrifice some of the squad players, he would snap your hand off.

But on Dembele, he was not chosen despite Eustace's wishes. Therefore to have total faith in the club getting what we need purely on the basis of having a good head coach even though he clearly doesnt have total say (nor does he set the budget, in fact he seems totally in the dark based on his press conferences) seems a bit misplaced/deluded. We dont need the whole "stop writing players off" narrative. He obviously wont be left out and I will judge him as he plays, as I did on Saturday when he was crap. My point was that this 25 man squad isnt an excuse not to sign players. The most likely and obvious solution is to shed players who arent good enough. We are lumbered with Forshaw now. But the likes of Sigurdsson, Dolan, Hedges could maybe be shunted out. Failing that, a couple of non contributors could be simply not registered. You clearly think that Travis returning from injury, Buckley and Forshaw is a trio of midfielders capable of sustaining a play off push.