A fair few good points in this post I feel, ( taken from twtd).........albeit a bit long !
** These are his thoughts ***
Noot really sure where to start with today. Frustrated, deflated and p*ssed off is how I'm feeling. So many things were wrong today, quite literally every player should fear for their place in the team.
Part of the reason we insist of lumping it forward is simple. We dont have balance out wide so it's pointless playing it to the full-back and working our way forward and we have 2 central midfielders who are happy to pass backwards and sideways, but no one who comes, picks the ball up for Berra/Smith and drives forward. Douglas did it twice last week and we scored from one drive and got a dangerous free kick from the other. The jig is up for Douglas, I genuinely hope he doesn't play for us next to Skuse ever again.
I'll start with MM. He got it terribly wrong today as he has ever since Preston away. Gerken needs to be dropped for Bart - Regardless of form or man management, Bart is the far superior keeper and the fact Gerken has first 10 goals in 5 league games is surely means that Bart will get a chance?
I didn't want to jump on the Chambers bandwagon but it's obvious to see that his lack of quality at full-back is hurting us. Don't get me wrong, I love Chambo - He's our passionate captain who has helped link us fans to the club again, but as a football player, he's not been good enough this season and should be dropped. He's never been great going forward but you could always rely on him to be defensively competent at least, but that has creeped out of his game now too. He's ineffective.
Our whole back line has been poor throughout 2015 if I'm honest. Our solid base seems to have crumbled. Berra looks a shadow of his former self this season and the only defender I think has really looked competent is, funnily enough, Tommy Smith. I think Parr needs to play at RB with Knudsen LB and offer some genuine balance once again.
Our midfield have been p*ss poor since Brentford. Why is that? In my eyes, we've slipped back into a state of lack of creativity. That's not just the center two, but our wingers are struggling too and aren't helped by the lack of balance at full-back. Remember when Hyam and Skuse used to play in the middle and we all hated the lack of creativity? Why have we resorted back to that with Douglas and Skuse? I'm getting bored of saying it now but having Skuse and Douglas in the middle doesn't work. Skuse is the tidy player who controls the game, so why is the identical Douglas playing next to him and just watching the game pass by? His legs look gone to me. We have Bru on the bench, time to bring him back into the fold.
AMN has no end product. He's a bright prospect and offers something, but that "something" isn't really in the final 3rd. One thing that annoys me is his insistence to come central rather than stay wide. Take your man on out wide and drag their back line backwards and it will create space, but he just glides into the middle and often lacks a final pass or shot/cross. Is that because he knows Chambo wont offer him anything on the overlap? Possibly, but he's also very young and will need to learn that side of his game. We often play Fraser whos a proper wideman on one side, so why play an similar winger on the other side and offer little balance? We already lack balance at full-back, let alone our wide midfielders! That would probably explain why everything goes down our left hand side when Fraser is playing. I'd be looking at Tommy Oar to offer some genuine wide play and threat on one side with Fraser on the other.
Toure is a CF. Why is he playing RM? Fine, he's OK there and has a decent cross, but it also means he has to come back and defend, which he obviously cant do as he gave away a silly penalty. Our wide players need to be both forward thinking and defensively able, and I cant say that our full-backs and wingers offered that today.
Why play Murphy ahead of McGoldrick? A FIT MCGOLDRICK NEEDS TO START GAMES! It's that simple. Pitman has 3 goals this season, McG has 3 goals and 4 assists, Sears has 4 goals and Murphy has 0 goals and 0 assists. Guess who started today though? The whole point of squad depth is so you can swap players in for players out of form or unfit yet keep that quality in your team - Why has Murphy just waltzed back into the team ahead of McG who has scored 3 and assisted 4? That's beyond me, especially with Mick's "Work hard and work your way into the team" ethos. MM's insistence to play our top goalscorer out wide to fit an abundance of strikers onto the pitch is bizarre too.
Subs weren't good enough today either. We are chasing the game and MM chucks on 4 strikers - Fine, we need goals, but we've totally sacrificed any actual creativity to get the ball to those 4 strikers! I would have much rather saw McG, Oar and Bru come on and offer some genuine creativity through the middle and outwide rather than Pitman who needs supply.
Alot of things were wrong today and summed us up this season. Mick is a loyal man, he has revived some of these players careers and given them a chance, but some of those players (Murph, Berra, Douglas, Chambo, Skuse, Gerken) are throwing that back in his face with poor individual performances. It's time for MM to lose faith in some of those "dogged" players and pick his team on tactical merit and a team he thinks can win the game, not to just try and plug his old and faithful into a team with some fillers.
Yet, after all that, did you lot hear MM's post match interview on Radio Suffolk? He knows that the team is playing poorly, he knows that players he's put faith in aren't repaying him and he knows that 1 win in 7 games is worrying - He's a man who has transformed this club, taken us to a top 6 finish only 5months ago and a man who will get things right. MM will be the first to admit that he's got things wrong and I have faith that he now sees that and will change things accordingly.
On another note, I can see why people are calling for Mick to go, but it's reactionary and frankly, bonkers. MM has had 3 successful years with us and all that isn't going to be thrown away because of 1 month of awful performances - MM has sorted us out once before and he will do it again.
