Take this how you want to take it, it isn't intended as a direct attack as such as I understand that for whatever reason it isn't possible for fans to attend every away game however I am most certain that if you would have shelled out on that shower of shite yesterday as I and many others did as opposed to listening to it on the radio and spending your time in the shoutbox, I very much doubt that you would have had the same level of optimism.
I don't want to knock the manager too much as he is doing certain things right however it simply isn't acceptable for him to come out after the match saying "we matched them in all areas of the pitch" after that performance. I would all be good and well saying that had we played out of our skins against a team who also played out of their skins however I again watched a team who didn't have the quality required to open up a team who in all fairness weren't anything special and were probably there for the taking if we had been productive.
It is all good and well hiding behind the FFP rules and everything else however the fact is that Clough has put his print on this squad and signed wholesale, we have several players for certain positions of the pitch which means healthy competition within the ranks however the lack of significant quality and game changers is blatantly obvious throughout!. The players that we already had within the team who stood out last year have suddenly disappeared into the background again.
I like a good few things about Clough however you have to weigh up the job at hand which is promotion from this league, we haven't lived up to expectations as of yet and you don't have to be a manager to see where we are flopping. If you go week in week out you can see that we are set up in quite a negative manner, we don't have the maturity in the team required to play in the manner that Clough would like us to play.
This window is pivotal as to whether we even make the play offs at this rate. We need a change in appraoch, we need to set ourselves up in a more attacking minded style, we need some quality, game changers, a goal scorer!.....Those hiding behind FFP remember Maguire has gone, Butler has gone, Collins and Porter on way out, a few youngsters have gone. The money is there for wages!
