Clutton Caveman

Hard to pass from the back when everyone is either stationary, running away from you or hiding. When you next watch us freeze frame when our defenders get the ball from Bentley. Even Pele would struggle to find a decent pass in that situation

I have the feeling they are just about to experience an LJ losing streak

He says he doesn't coach, he clearly prefers a nice soft seat in the stand to being close to his players and he cannot organise and motivate. He seems to think that talking to the press is below him. What does he bring?

Well I think we have played just about every combination our squad allows. It seems that the team spirit is dropping week by week as the squad start to lose faith in the plan. Many players are staying in the team by doing nothing wrong rather than doing something right. The manager has started openly criticising some players and I suspect behind closed doors some players are criticising the management. We have several players who are on high wages and are not delivering and the chances to move them on even for no fee seems remote. I would like to think that NP spends a night on Glastonbury Tor and comes back reinvented to invigorate his failing team but guess what I think NP thinks he is fine as he is. Will the January window save us? If we could find a Tanner type bargain for midfield winger and striker perhaps, but!! oh yes that was a pig flying past my window So in answer to your question, does this seem like a relegation season. Yes.

Based on what he brought in during the last window, I wouldn't be backing his judgement with £££

Shame he didn't take a little of the blame for failing to motivate the squad. Feels distinctly like me and them.

Wells can finish? We must be thinking of a different player

Do you really think we could find a new home for Palmer and DaSilva?

Did you see Benarous against Barnsley?

Seems you get comments even when you don't say anything. Guess what people have different opinions. It is OK to disagree, oh but I forget the woke brigade not only want to tell us what to say but also what to think. And of course they are ALWAYS right.

I just thought about the options for NP. If you consider all of our higher earners, which ones do you think would attract a bid in January if they were available at a realistic price? Remember he has to sell before he buys For me Kalas, Bentley, possibly Massengo That leaves the likes of Wells, Palmer, O'Dowd, Baker, Martin and Weimann basically here until their contract runs out. Our kids look just that, kids. Perhaps able to contribute here or there but far from stepping up and improving the team. Not really a great picture is it? Perhaps having lost 2 coaches and the Director of the academy we may have a little bit of wriggle room for a January loan. Having had a chance to look at the situation last season I think NP only joined us because we were the only offer on the table, so does that mean that we not only have a bunch of players that nobody else wants and a coach in the same category. Just a thought. Well done SL.

Classic case of bags of talent bad attitude, unfortunately a product of the system where kids grow up in a bubble of entitlement. Plenty of first team regulars would kill for some of his skills but few managers seem to trust him.

Well if that is the standard set I think he could make 3 or 4 changes each week including Bakinson every time he plays

Too small, too slow, too passive and just not ready

You know I wrote a comment here only to delete because of the reaction I would surely get from the woke brigade. Amazing how easy free speech can be discouraged

Ever since LJ our fullbacks ignore the winger and stand between the centre half and the line. This leaves the winger as a constant out ball. The winger gets the ball uncontested and can run at the full back who has the sprint out to him. Sometimes the wide midfielder takes the winger leaving his man free. On Saturday their right winger was their constant easy out ball. I know why we play the fullback narrow, We are trying the close off the ball down the channel between our full back and centre back but if our midfield was more effective perhaps the ball would not come that way so often.

Totally agree and on songs for god sake give the DaSilva song a rest. There are players far more deserving of a song than him like Weimann for instance. Pathetic we select the song based on the tune rather than the player

Williams I agree with King for me is too light weight plays too many square balls. If we are relying on Williams this season I think we are in trouble,

He keeps saying we were not good, when is he going to do something about it?

I don't really see how you can blame the defence, when our midfield cannot hold the ball for 2 mins they are constantly under pressure. We are so poor at preventing crosses at time it looks like a defence v attack training drill and players picking up clearance at the edge of our box seem to have all the time in the world to control the ball and shoot. For every set piece we leave nobody up and so when we clear he ball it comes straight back. We focus on the defence because the play is so often close to our box. I don't see a single leader in our team. Even the quiet Kalas was clearly furious at how often the ball just came back.

So we won, it was a great feeling but the performance was one of the worst against a very poor team. We simply cannot keep the ball for more than 4 or 5 passes and we go long at every opportunity. If you have a Warnock team of giants with a couple of greyhounds this might work but with what we have the ball just comes back. How could a very average Barnsley team also low on confidence play virtually all of the second half in our half. To me our team organisation and plan is going backwards. I would love to know what the game plan of NP is. Perhaps it is lump it forward or perhaps it is different and the players can't/won't carry it out. Either way you cannot criticise the teams effort and commitment on Saturday but the organisation was awful. As to our salvation being based on youth, I thought Benarous looks way off the pace. On a few occasions Barnsley players simply took the ball off him and ran away, he could not keep up. It seems that our youth policy has been to create a set of LJ clones. I truly hope that we can find a couple of loans in Jan who can bring some calm and organisation to our midfield.

Hard to pass to players who are hiding. Our movement off the ball has been awful for years

Strange with Palmer, seems a bit more prepared to work but if killer ball seems to have gone

I guess someone had to carry the can for current team performance

I am not surprised he doesn't know his best team. Most players are blowing hot and cold, great one week OK the next. It seems whoever he piks he has no idea how individually they will perform