The players are absolutely restricted by the tactics. There’s no flair, no expression, no passion, no blood sweating for the club. The whole thing is soulless and depressing. He’ll say nice things about Man City at the end - how good they are, how organised, how skillfull - but not why he set up to be so negative, so s***, how bad at passing we are, how poor our decision making is etc. Everyone will say what a lovely bloke he is and that will mask the total abject performance as people will be more focussed on what a lovely old gent he is and he can hide behind that. Well it’s bollox.
I wanted to stay in the EPL as we’d get the money to do the ground up. On the basis that seems highly unlikely and I reckon we’ll be let down there as well, I’d rather be in the Championship where we could, at least, have a crack at a promotion campaign. No U23 on the bench with 2 places free is utterly shameful as well. Parish should kick his arse for that alone.

We did better than I thought ...thought we would lose 5-0

I would say all of them, the passing was so poor but it’s because they have no time on the ball because they are so slow. Desperately miss Schlupp and Wilf for any pace in the side

About what I thought it'd be prior to the game really.. not as though that makes it any easier to stomach.

You make some spot on points there Helmet - that was yet another painful watch!

c***ish performance all round.