An abject performance yesterday, and for the first time ever since having iFollow, I gave up with ten minutes to go and went to bed (it was 1am in Malaysia after all)!
As many of said, that will rank alongside Colchester as our worst display of the season. For me, it goes right to the bottom of the heap as Crewe (a bottom-half side on a 3-game losing streak) completely dominated and created infinitely more than I remember Colchester doing.
Anyway, to the crux of the matter, am I the only one who has been concerned about our league performances from the Crewe home game at the beginning of October (a game we were fortunate to win 1-0)? Since then, the Mansfield, Newport and Morecambe games have been decent - at least in spells - but other than that, we've generally served up a diet of aimless long balls down the channels and backwards/sideways passes in midfield. Crewe gave us a lesson yesterday in how to play the ball intelligently and skillfully (something we were doing at the start of the season), and whilst their league position would suggest they have not been doing this all season, the fact of the matter is that they executed a very good game-plan against us, and we suffered from minute 1 as a result.
Come the transfer window, other than replacing Green's position in the squad, my first priority would be a ball-carrying central midfielder who looks to play forward more than playing backwards or sidewards (think the type of performance Boateng at Exeter put in against us in the play-off games). Pett can do this to an extent, but seems to have been shunted around every midfield position in recent weeks. I'm also surprised Luque hasn't had any sort of look-in since the Accrington game as he was decent then and seems the only other player in the squad who could fill that role.
Let's hope for a big improvement against Cambridge. With Mansfield coming up fast on the rails, 3 points would be very welcome.