Hopeless from top to bottom

Quoted from Chrisblor

I wouldn't be getting on Jolley's back. Everyone might have been annoyed when the team was announced, but tactically it turned out to be spot on. We lost today because of the players who couldn't avoid giving stupid free-kicks away around the edge of the box, and their complete inability to defend set pieces. McKeown tried his best and made about 3 world-class saves, but what's he or Jolley meant to do when the rest of the team can't manage even the very basics of defending?

He’s got them marking half man half zonal. Lost count of the amount of times the ball went to a player completely unmarked in our box today. We’ve got worse at defending set peices.

2nd half he completely didn’t respond. We sat back and they piled on the pressure, he needed to make changes so we could keep the ball. The changes he made did not help us.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I thought you were screaming for Jolley to be given the job? I thought you were over the moon with his appointment? The rest I agree with.

I was with the majority, no doubt .

I was desperate for something , he might turn out to be a find but i have to say even though its early days i cant understand what hes trying to do sometimes .

No DJ No McAllister but berrett gets in every week plus zonal marking with players that cant defend ? .

Against Stevenage we improved , against this moaning bunch of tw*t we scored there is improvement, it's not MJs fault he's been left a pile of trash.

So we’ve conceded more goal from set-pieces than any team in the division.

Slade putting on a public slideshow explaining our tactics for defending set pieces appears to be a masterstroke.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Thing is though im not even bothered anymore , jolley gave me hope but looks like hes bignot in disguise , fentys just an absolute dictator and we have a team full of wasters.

Acceptance has set in that this club is just a joke from top to bottom , we were that desperate the majority were willing a bloke who has never managed in english football and has a university degree to get the job on the back of a youtube video.

This team and club infuriates me , its the hope that kills you but in reality its the penny pinching and ridiculous decisions thats cost us and you know what one man has to live with that not me.

Simply not in the slighest good enough to survive and no matter how you want to dress it up 20 games without a win is just embarrassing , these players are spineless and the club in a whole is spineless.

Without being slated for, or accused of, slagging off Jolley (yes yes I know its all Slade's fault as the squad the left was shite) can anyone clarify as relegation seems inevitable under what terms was he given the job?

Was he appointed to keep us up by somehow avoiding relegation?  If he was (and I hope even Fenty might just have built that into the job description) then he is about to fail, whatever the excuse and however justified it may be, he will have failed in his task

If he was brought in to build a team, for next season and beyond (and Fenty had already given up and accepted we are going down) then there is a chance Mr Jolley can be regarded in the future as a success. Fenty on the other hand will have failed again by not going for an experienced relegation fighter if only until May (Jolley could been employed then)

Quoted from jonnyboy82

No DJ No McAllister but berrett gets in every week plus zonal marking with players that cant defend ? .

Berrett hasn’t started the last two previous games.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

I was with the majority, no doubt .

I was desperate for something , he might turn out to be a find but i have to say even though its early days i cant understand what hes trying to do sometimes .

No DJ No McAllister but berrett gets in every week plus zonal marking with players that cant defend ? .

Berrett has been dropped for the two games before today.

As those players signed by Slade were professional footballers from other league clubs they must have been capable of trapping and passing a football. As it doesn't really matter what 11 we put out they are all worse than the opposition, so we're they being carried by their teammates at their previous club and we have basically got a perfect storm where we field possibly the worst 10/11 players in the league?

He clearly doesn't go down the settled team route and appears a bit Sladesc in picking teams depending on who we are playing.

We should stop worrying about who we are playing, I don't remember Alan Buckley pissing about with different team selections.

I don’t understand the fascination with the players who haven’t played much for us. I don’t understand everyone getting suicidal when the team selection is announced.

Most fans were buzzing with the selection against Coventry and we lost 4-0.

Today the selection was derided by many, and we’ve lost 2-1 against a side that are 3rd in the league and much better than Coventry.

The squad is not good enough, regardless of who plays. There are no world beaters sat in the stands, despite what you may think. All we can do is get behind the 11 that start.