Turning this mess around


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Good luck Alex, dear me.

Players look absolutely shot to bits and cant do the basics, not even having a shot on target from open play ffs.

If we don't go up this season, Speakman is going to be lucky to hold onto his job and even luckier to get it right next season.

Complete shambles
If he had a shred of dec or conscience he’d have quit by now. He’s a phoney. Another chancer.
 
Shocking appointment. Don’t care about all the “give him a chance comments”. It’s not his fault he was appointed, and I wish him all the luck in the world. It’s just not what is needed atm. Roy Keane is what was needed. These players need a big f***ing shock and a manager to look up too.
 
Good luck Alex, dear me.

Players look absolutely shot to bits and cant do the basics, not even having a shot on target from open play ffs.

If we don't go up this season, Speakman is going to be lucky to hold onto his job and even luckier to get it right next season.

Complete shambles

Players look absolutely shot to bits and cant do the basics,

we’ve looked like that since the turn of the year
 
Good luck Alex, dear me.

Players look absolutely shot to bits and cant do the basics, not even having a shot on target from open play ffs.

If we don't go up this season, Speakman is going to be lucky to hold onto his job and even luckier to get it right next season.

Complete shambles
Too kind.
 
I find it really hard to have too much of a go at the young lads who are being played every week, many in their first full season in senior football. Yes there are some poor players and some dire performances from almost all of them, but they are really learning on the job. However, the senior pros in the squad need to have a long, hard look at themselves and what they are contributing to this mess. Evans, Wright, Gooch and Winchester all have plenty of experience behind them and simply aren't performing well enough or doing enough to support the young lads in the team. Then we add Defoe, Baath, McGeady, O'Nien etc in too who are just recently here or injured and surely there has to be a burden taken by these senior players? You have to expect inconsistency from young lads playing their first season, and it's not to excuse them from poor performances - it's an explanation rather than an excuse. What's the explanation for the consistently poor, consistently hiding performances from the senior players?
 
Makes you wonder if Johnson was actually overachieving with the young group. But I am sure nobody will have that.

They look like they are sulking to me and have no idea what to do now the previous plan has gone.

Big week on the training pitch this week for AN.
 
There's a massive crisis of confidence. Plus a reliance on players who are literally experiencing their first full league season. So there's a tiredness issue there as well imo, as annoying as that excuse may be. But I think it's true. Neil, Doyle, Cirkin. Add players like Pritchard and Clarke who have had injury problems. I think that's too many first team players who cant be relied upon to have the match sharpness and stamina required. But confidence and momentum are the main factors. The tiredness can be overcome, surely.

This is as low as it's ever been and it's a massive job to turn this group of players around. Making the playoffs should be considered an achievement for Neil.
 
Thought we'd lose on pens in the playoffs, now don't believe we'll even get there, past caring. Another season in league 1 purgatory beckons. Wigan threw a team together from scratch and will go up, baffles me why we can't do this considering the advantages we have
 
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