Absolutely terrible... at home to a decent crowd on Boxing Day.
Should be all over by now.... completely undeserved 0-1. Part of me wants us to get hammered instead of a 0-1 so no cracks can be papered over. Make that 0-2 now

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I did post a sarcastic reply when we beat Wigan and got shot down for it. Turning point it certainly wasnt, just a tight game against another poor team. We will not be any match for any half decent team in the championship as long as MM is in charge.Shed on tour wrote:The only surprise about today's result was that it only ended up 2-0.
We were chasing shadows nearly all the game and it was a truly gutless performance. After the win at Wigan I asked bluemike if he thought that result could be a turning point in our season or just a case of papering over the cracks and today we got the answer.
I did post a sarcastic reply when we beat Wigan and got shot down for it. Turning point it certainly wasnt, just a tight game against another poor team. We will not be any match for any half decent team in the championship as long as MM is in charge.Shed on tour wrote:The only surprise about today's result was that it only ended up 2-0.
We were chasing shadows nearly all the game and it was a truly gutless performance. After the win at Wigan I asked bluemike if he thought that result could be a turning point in our season or just a case of papering over the cracks and today we got the answer.
How very very very fickle indeed. Lolbluemike wrote:Today was truly dreadful, probably about as bad as it gets, outplayed from start to finish, hardly any efforts of note on target, passed off the pitch, second to virtually every ball, no cohesion to our play, zero tempo, movement was non existent, the list goes on, Fulham actually looked like world beaters by comparison but they certainly have players that know how to do the basics like pass and move, sadly we didn't. At no point in that 95 minutes did we ever looked likely to score, or in fact compete. With the exception of Bart I struggle to single out any other player for praise at all, While I accept Mick has to take the lions share of the blame in this dismal situation we find ourselves in I cannot help but feel a few of the players need to take a long hard look at themselves too, I don't buy into this theory that they are being coached to play sh*te, I do not agree with it at all, they are at times going through the motions and today was most definitely one of those days.
Quite how it only ended up 0-2 god only knows, while there wasn't loads of chances raining down on our goal in the first half we still had Bart to thank for a excellent instinctive block from Martin which held it at 0-0 for a bit longer. I have no idea what the f*ck our wall and goalkeeper were thinking for the Freekick which gave Fulham a more than deserved lead, being virtually behind the wall you could see it was not positioned correctly or indeed long enough, I hope Sears was not meant to be on the end of the wall because the gap between himself and the next goon in the wall was big enough to allow Vanessa Feltz through it !! Bart's attempt to get across to save it was also pretty rank in truth.
The second half was a different story in terms of chances for the visitors, Bart made a couple of good saves while some unbelievable misses by the Fulham attack kept it respectable, it could so easliy have been 0-5 it was that one-sided. At the other end we did not trouble their keeper once, not an effort on target throughout the whole game as far as I can recall. I think I can recall a solitary passage of play that I would credit as being good football from us, aside from that we could not string more than a couple of decent passes together. Our defence was pulled about all over the place with the two Fullbacks once again so limited at the back or going forward, Berra & Webster without question came off second best to the Fulham attack, Pitman was totally isolated up front all first half while Skuse & Douglas had very poor games in the centre, I felt Dozzell was better than most without really needing to do much at all, a couple of good runs stood out for me. Didsy and Best came on second half and had very little impact, Didsy sprayed a few balls about but it was all very safe and didn't hurt Fulham at all, Sears & Lawrence had limited opportunities to get at the defence but when they did it was dealt with so easliy it was untrue, I doubt we would have scored if we were still playing now.
Bart (7) Chambo (5) Webster (5) Berra (5) Knudsen (5) Lawrence (6) Skuse (4) Douglas (4) Sears (5) Dozzell (6) Pitman (5)
SUBS :- Best (4) McGoldrick (6)
The gulf in class between the Two sides was embarrasing today and we show little signs of being able to string a run of decent results together, the crowd are turning more and more with each passing game, Evans, McCarthy and the players all now being targeted in larger numbers, there have been times in the past when I felt fans were turning on the manager way too soon, however even the most avid supporter of MM, myself included, has to draw the line before it becomes too late to rectify it without serious consequences and while I wish MM no harm and nor do I have the same hatred towards him as many clearly do it does get to the stage where a change has to be the way forward because their is little evidence of anything changing without that scenario, 26th December 2016 is the day I feel we reached that point. McCarthy OUT.
It can't be anything else but depressing marko, that is the reality of it all tonight.marko69 wrote:Thanks for the report Mike, depressing as it was. And definitely a big day for a supporter like yourself to re-evaluate the situation in great detail after this game......., definitely not even close to fickle, ....., although I do think ITNO1 (one of the more humorous among us) was joking.