BettingBlade
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Basically you had a meltdown and toys went flying.
I’ve said for most of the season that I dont think we’ve been playing to our strengths and grinding out results and there was a chance it would come back to bite us.
The thread was started off the back of one of the worst home performances I’ve seen and I include Adkins and Clough in that. It was fucking horrendous. It had been 5 months since the Burnley performance and we were showing all the signs of a team in free fall and a manager who refused to play any kind of front foot football whatsoever.
Clearly, he’s decided that Doyle and McAttee are more than worthy of a regular starting place in the team, something he was so reluctant to do before that Luton game. We also seem to be playing with a lot more freedom that we havent been since the world cup.
For whatever reason, theres been a huge shift in the mentality since that Luton game. If we’d been playing like the last two games all season then it would be fair to say that the poor run of form was just a blip and I’d have been confident he’d have turned it around. We haven’t, we’d looked slow and laboured, we’d have rare good spells in games that would see us through.
I said on here literally the other day that if we carried the mentality of the Blackburn game through the rest of the season we would be promoted. Given that there was absolutely 0 sign of that performance following the Luton game, it was absolutely fair to question the manager.