Highlights.. if you dare

I don't know why he didn't bring Morecambe and Wise on in the second half subs.

Jesus.  That's even worse watching it back.

First goal Waterfall needs to take one for the team.  He messes up by getting himself in a position where a far quicker player has the legs on him so take the hit and bundle him over early on the touchline.  He doesn't but he still has the chance to clip him outside the area.  

Second goal is just excrement all round.  Too easy down the left, Conteh just lets his man ghost past him. Waterfall's header away isn't good enough and as per the final 65 minutes of the game we don't win the second ball.

Third goal how the hell is Johnson in that much space to receive the pass?  What is that attempt at a tackle from Maher?  What the intercourse are Waterfall and Mullarkey doing, looks like a excrement version of Dancing on Ice.

Fourth goal - that's just excrement from Conteh.  Type of lazy approach that is seeing him very quickly look like a player who has all the attributes but no way near the application to make it even at this level.  More than anyone in the side, he needs a proper rocket up his bottom and to ask himself how badly he wants this.  Because at the minute he looks like he doesn't really care.  

Fifth goal is pathetic.  That delivery isn't even that good and a well organised set-up clears that before it even gets close to danger.  Can't even work out what's going on after that Waterfall seems to duck under the ball and no-one reacts other than the Walsall lad.

Sixth goal is just embarrassing.  Highlights don't do justice how quickly our attack was turned over.  I know the game was gone and heads had dropped but at least five players just jogging there.  Easy ball down the line, easy ball in to the middle and easy finish.  Lack of professional pride there over everything else.

Outsiders will look at that scoreline and think Walsall battered us.  They went near our goal six times and scored six times.  If they had gone near our goal fifteen times they would have scored fifteen times. Defensive strength of a wet paper bag yesterday.  Said to my old man on the way home, more than anything else we lacked someone out there to grab a few players by the scruff of the neck and install a bit of fear in them.  I'm a big believer in building up confidence and seeing where it takes people, but sometimes it needs something much firmer.  Artell was far more polite than I think he probably wanted to be post game.  Cartwright, Green and Rose aside, he could have slated all of the heart (or lack of it) and not one of them could have grumbled.

Most disappointing thing is that it's quite obvious when a new manager comes in, especially close to a transfer window, that there's a bigger risk that you're not gonna be in their plans.  Yet so many of them just don't seem to give a excrement, or at least choose when they want to.

Couldn’t be any worse.

Quoted from kevikov

If there is a positive, and there has to be one sliver of positivity, it’s this. We’re halfway through the season, we have a transfer window to hopefully recruit a number of players, that showing yesterday makes it pretty clear some players simply aren’t up for it and never will be. Time for DA to really earn his money. We’re are fighting relegation and only fighters will do.

That’s how I see it too mate, we have some good players who are under performing, we all know we can play good football (at times) just look at that first 30 minutes yesterday, we need some quality bringing In to shore up the defence (an absolute must) that’s our weak area, I still feel confident in that we’ll be safe (there are worst teams than us in this division)

OMG

Think earlier posts have said it all.

I’m just gob smacked at the ineptitude…

Most of those goals conceded had nothing to do with playing out from the back, just stupid mistakes or lack of effort.

Massive wake up call, and thankfully just in time for the window.

It will be very telling to see just how the manager and owners respond to the situation.