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I’m going to be presuming that none of the injured players are back for this besides maybe Willoughby. Clarke McAllister Stanger McGinty Murphy Tomlinson McHugh Syla Amartey Dowds Willougby

He’ll be starting on Friday then. Not entirely against it tbh.

Pretty poor. I feel sorry for him as I feel many fans had written him off before he’d started given where we got him from but he’s done nothing to change the opinion by way of performances. He’s clumsy on and off the ball and just seems slow to react to danger. Since joining I’d say he’s made two really high profile errors which have ultimately cost us matches (even though we were already 1-0 on Saturday but had started coming back into the game). I can see why we signed him as he did really well at this level before with yourselves and Killie but I didn’t even think we were especially poor at centre back but we’re weaker now with him in the team.

For January signings they’ve been fine. Sanders is the only one I’d class as a failure so far.

No one is blaming Musonda but the point is that he has a terrible record of injuries and is away at different points of the season for Zambia. He’s turned into a waste of a wage as he’s not a particularly great defender.

It helped that we didn’t play with a left back for much of the game and Thomas and Longridge had complete freedom in that area of the pitch.

I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt that he’s doing it due to injuries and the fact that our defence is absolutely piss thin. I can genuinely see a mass overhaul coming in that area with Stanger the only one surviving and that’s more down to his age and the fact that he has shown potential this season. Everyone else can f**k off to be honest, even McGinty. I don’t have much cause for concern for Brown as a manager though. He's done okay in his first few months. I think it’s fair to say we’re at the stage of being inconsistent in terms of results which is an improvement on being consistently shite. Ultimately I think we’ll finish 7th or 8th.

Aye this was one of my frustrations. Especially since QP had left about three players at the other end of the pitch so we had massively outnumbered them in the box. It’s impossible to clear the ball and for it not to be coming straight back on top of you.

It was reminiscent of the first game up at Hampden where you insisted on playing out from the back and got caught short just about every time. Only difference is we were more clinical with our chances and today our goalie stopped it being a cricket score.

Still in disbelief we actually scored a goal tbh.

If Reading, McGinley and Musonda are all injured then I reckon our next best left back could well be Murphy. Hes at least got the experience to be in the right place at the right time and might actually help organise the useless c***s we have at the back. I’d then have Stanger and McGinty at centre back with McAllister at right back.

Aye considering we’ve got three players at the club who can play left back (to varying degrees of competency) and all of them are unavailable. I do wonder what Brown would’ve done with Ecrepont though? Would absolutely be using him now. I do find it hard to judge any manager on what they do in January. It’s a ridiculous month and clubs very rarely strengthen what they have unless they get lucky or spend money. Looking at the business we’ve done, Brown has only really replaced guys that were recalled or guys he straight away deemed not good enough. We definitely haven’t improved on any positions but I wouldn’t say we are outright poorer in any areas either. I think he needs to be ruthless in the summer and give himself enough scope to build his own squad.

The fact you even used it as an example is ridiculous enough tbh. I actually agree with you with regards to the injury stuff or knowing if players have signed contracts elsewhere (not saying this is the case). It’s also not a league that lends itself to “experimenting”. Don’t think for one minute that’s what happening even if the shape looked bizarre in the second half.

I haven’t said that once but if you want to carry on with your temper tantrum over where we warmed up on the park then fire it. Just make sure your keyboard is in one piece tomorrow morning. Once again, being asked to explain your actions in this case is entirely valid. I don’t think anyone has a reasonable argument for wanting the club to explain why we didn’t warm up in front of the SRE and decided they didn’t want to kick off into that end in the first half. “Get him out Sharon” comes to mind.

I think demanding communication for this particular reason is one of the most bizarre things I’ve read on this forum. I’m finding it hard to actually believe it’s a serious suggestion.

I don’t think this is the case for every game but some of the time, yes. The club can’t exactly prove it’s a piss take as Amartey was at least on the pitch. I don’t particularly agree with the notion that we have to have a MOTM picked for every game especially for a game like today where there were no actual pass marks that could be given to players.

Cause that one matter does not matter one jot. No matter how hard you shout about it.

I’ll say it again and hopefully it gets through. The club do not need to inform fans prior to a game that they are altering their warm up routine and then plan to choose to kick off facing the SRE. I agree communication could be better with regards to injured players especially when fans seem so hell bent on convincing themselves there’s been some mass fall out. However the club don’t need to run everything past fans. Are you wanting David Smith to tell you every time he goes for a shite as well?

Of all the stuff to get annoyed about you’ve chosen this? You’re seriously wanting the club to put a tweet out saying “for today’s match we’re actively choosing to change ends to warm up at and then kick off”. You’ve lost the fucking plot mate.

Why would the club communicate to us that we moved where we warm up?

I don’t think it had any bearing on the result whatsoever. Brown and Whittaker have maybe seen something they don’t like or maybe the pitch was more cut up in the SRE half so they’d rather warm up on the opposite end. It wasn’t the reason for Sanders giving a goal away or McHugh and Syla not being able to complete simple five yard passes.

Pre match we warmed up at the Railway End.

Rose can’t play for us as he can’t be re-registered outside of a window. He also can’t play against us as he’s still on loan from us. Not that he’d make one bit of difference to this team. He was being hounded out in January. Scoring goals against plumbers and painters doesn’t warrant a mass backtracking.

Chalmers is injured Rose can’t play for us this season.

It’s only one player that we’ve heard he has an issue with though? And it was someone who was letting the team down. Brown obviously has high standards and wasn’t prepared to wait it out until the summer with Albinson which is fair enough. Clarke hasn’t had a clean sheet yet (something he’s getting a roasting for on Facebook) but he’s made a lot of big saves in games we’ve won and it would’ve been 4 or 5 today without him.