The Peacocks are coming to get roasted!

[Norpig]

We were awful from start to.finish absolutely awful! How Ngog stayed on for.90 minutes is beyond? We are going down unless something drastic changes are made.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Just back.

fecking awful.

That's all.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Mills/Wheater with Ream in the holding role. He seems to a bright spot in that area lately so stick with it I say. Would hate for him to drop back into defense and revert.

Interesting point.

So in all our games this season, we've had 104 shots, 27 on target and only scored 7 goals.

Also interesting (where are those stats from?). But I'd be interested to see those numbers for league games only - 3 goals in 6 there.

[clapton is god]

Awful game, from first minute to last. Not one player exempted from criticism, they were all shocking. Worst start for fifty years and it feels like it too.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Two points from six games. So in the next four games he's got to get:

* three points not to be worse than Sammy Lee (in a lower division)
* eight points (championship form of 2ppg) to be might-avoid-relegation form of 1ppg over the season*
* 13 points (which he can't get) to be in not-quite-play-off-form of 1.5ppg over the season

*highest-relegated-team benchmark was 54pts last season but 40pts year before

[thebish]

anyone doing the predict-a-dougie - or has he already spoken? I'm off to the dump to get rid of a massive trailer load of stuff i have hacked out of the garden... this losing streak is doing wonders for my garden-clearance project! it's a great way to release those pent-up angry vibes - I used my new axe today - felt good!

[bobo the clown]

I feel sorry for Dougie, saddled with this sh*te. (I feel sorry for us too!)

But this is HIS shite ... he's either bought or given new contracts to 90% of the first team squad. No excuses now.

Either they are crap, or he's a crap coach. I honestly think he's confusing them. He's bloody confusing me !!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

anyone doing the predict-a-dougie - or has he already spoken? I'm off to the dump to get rid of a massive trailer load of stuff i have hacked out of the garden... this losing streak is doing wonders for my garden-clearance project! it's a great way to release those pent-up angry vibes - I used my new axe today - felt good!

I've had to work. Hard to cover (among other things) Hull v Cardiff while we're arrowing toward f*ckin' Carlisle, Crewe, Colchester & Crawley.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Roasted! The only fxckers flame grilled today were not from Yorkshire.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I feel sorry for Dougie, saddled with this sh*te. (I feel sorry for us too!)

But this is HIS shite ... he's either bought or given new contracts to 90% of the first team squad.

Not 90%, but again, if we look at today's participants and embolden (if only we could!) those Dougie has given contracts to:

Bogdan; Baptiste, Knight (Beckford 62), Mills, Tierney (Medo 85); Ream; Spearing, Pratley; Eagles (Hall 68), Lee; Ngog

Of the eight he hasn't yet given contracts to: one (Knight) he named captain, another (Eagles) took over as captain today and was excellent last season, another (Ngog) has been bigged up constantly by the boss; another (Ream) has played surprisingly well out of position; another (Pratley) has scored two-thirds of our league goals....

[Jakerbeef]

In there somewhere, I'm convinced is a good team, and it may not be the one we would have expected.

For instance I'll be surprised and delighted if our CB partnership contains Mills or Baptiste and our midfield has Pratley/Ream saving the day. With Hall and Craig Davies doing the business up front.

But the problem is Dougie is running out of time to find the perfect XI. We have to do it with the squad we've got.

[bobo the clown]

I feel sorry for Dougie, saddled with this sh*te. (I feel sorry for us too!)

But this is HIS shite ... he's either bought or given new contracts to 90% of the first team squad.

Not 90%, but again, if we look at today's participants and embolden (if only we could!) those Dougie has given contracts to:

Bogdan; Baptiste, Knight (Beckford 62), Mills, Tierney (Medo 85); Ream; Spearing, Pratley; Eagles (Hall 68), Lee; Ngog

Of the eight he hasn't yet given contracts to: one (Knight) he named captain, another (Eagles) took over as captain today and was excellent last season, another (Ngog) has been bigged up constantly by the boss; another (Ream) has played surprisingly well out of position; another (Pratley) has scored two-thirds of our league goals....

The 90% was a broad estimate, and I did say 'squad', so there's a good number not in todays team to consider.

I thought he extended Knight's, but that may well have been Cptn. Chaos. As you point out, he certainly chose to make him captain (which, I'm guessing, gets him some form of pay rise) so he's 'his man' either way.

The point I'm making ... & I think you take ... is that he can't, after a year, pull the "this ain't my squad" line.

[officer_dibble]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooo

[officer_dibble]

3 captains today

#leadership

[TANGODANCER]

Any of the match-goers care to do a run down?

[truewhite15]

It were shite, folks.

Ngog couldn't trap a bag of cement. Baptiste was caught out of position countless times. Nobody could win a header. Chungy and Eagles were completely anonymous. Bogdan was shaky, and lacking confidence; and given that we've been saying that since he started, maybe he'll never get it. Knight was shocking.

On the slightly less depressing side, Ream looked good, both in midfield and defence. Pratley held the ball up fairly well. Spearing looked for the ball, the only player to do so - although he frequently found himself looking around in frustration as every fecker else ran away from him when he had it. Hall looked our most creative outlet on the day.

The other subs were neither here nor there. Mills and Tierney were average.

Their goal was a direct result of many factors. In the build-up, Knight tried to command Bogdan to come for the ball, when all Knight had to do was shepherd it out for a goal kick. Instead, he panicked, and belted it out for a corner - then bollocked Adam for not rushing out to claim the ball close to the goal-line corner of the 18 yard box, when a Leeds player was in attendance and Adam would have had to go THROUGH Knight to claim the ball. The resulting corner was knocked out again, and the second corner was nodded in by an unmarked Varney, into the far corner of the net, where nobody was stood on the post.

The most we could do was build pressure, but we didn't have enough about us to create a single clear chance. We didn't have a single shot on target, no matter what the BBC puts on its stats (the shot it counted as actually going wide before Kenny got a touch). And 0 shots on goal says it all.

[Sponge]

anyone doing the predict-a-dougie - or has he already spoken? I'm off to the dump to get rid of a massive trailer load of stuff i have hacked out of the garden... this losing streak is doing wonders for my garden-clearance project! it's a great way to release those pent-up angry vibes - I used my new axe today - felt good!

I read that sentence first round thinking it was an elaborate (and slightly disturbing) euphemism for taking a shit.

Presumably the word "shit" is on my mind today. I can't think why.

[ChrisC]

It were shite, folks.

Ngog couldn't trap a bag of cement. Baptiste was caught out of position countless times. Nobody could win a header. Chungy and Eagles were completely anonymous. Bogdan was shaky, and lacking confidence; and given that we've been saying that since he started, maybe he'll never get it. Knight was shocking.

On the slightly less depressing side, Ream looked good, both in midfield and defence. Pratley held the ball up fairly well. Spearing looked for the ball, the only player to do so - although he frequently found himself looking around in frustration as every fecker else ran away from him when he had it. Hall looked our most creative outlet on the day.

The other subs were neither here nor there. Mills and Tierney were average.

Their goal was a direct result of many factors. In the build-up, Knight tried to command Bogdan to come for the ball, when all Knight had to do was shepherd it out for a goal kick. Instead, he panicked, and belted it out for a corner - then bollocked Adam for not rushing out to claim the ball close to the goal-line corner of the 18 yard box, when a Leeds player was in attendance and Adam would have had to go THROUGH Knight to claim the ball. The resulting corner was knocked out again, and the second corner was nodded in by an unmarked Varney, into the far corner of the net, where nobody was stood on the post.

The most we could do was build pressure, but we didn't have enough about us to create a single clear chance. We didn't have a single shot on target, no matter what the BBC puts on its stats (the shot it counted as actually going wide before Kenny got a touch). And 0 shots on goal says it all.

Agree with all this. Ream was a positive from the game. Passed the ball very well and got his foot in. Apart from a slip late second half he was faultless.

We did actually have a shot on target first half when Ngog had his back to goal. He slipped and then got up and got a shot on goal and brought a very good save out of Kenny. Should have scored really.

[truewhite15]

It were shite, folks.

Ngog couldn't trap a bag of cement. Baptiste was caught out of position countless times. Nobody could win a header. Chungy and Eagles were completely anonymous. Bogdan was shaky, and lacking confidence; and given that we've been saying that since he started, maybe he'll never get it. Knight was shocking.

On the slightly less depressing side, Ream looked good, both in midfield and defence. Pratley held the ball up fairly well. Spearing looked for the ball, the only player to do so - although he frequently found himself looking around in frustration as every fecker else ran away from him when he had it. Hall looked our most creative outlet on the day.

The other subs were neither here nor there. Mills and Tierney were average.

Their goal was a direct result of many factors. In the build-up, Knight tried to command Bogdan to come for the ball, when all Knight had to do was shepherd it out for a goal kick. Instead, he panicked, and belted it out for a corner - then bollocked Adam for not rushing out to claim the ball close to the goal-line corner of the 18 yard box, when a Leeds player was in attendance and Adam would have had to go THROUGH Knight to claim the ball. The resulting corner was knocked out again, and the second corner was nodded in by an unmarked Varney, into the far corner of the net, where nobody was stood on the post.

The most we could do was build pressure, but we didn't have enough about us to create a single clear chance. We didn't have a single shot on target, no matter what the BBC puts on its stats (the shot it counted as actually going wide before Kenny got a touch). And 0 shots on goal says it all.

Agree with all this. Ream was a positive from the game. Passed the ball very well and got his foot in. Apart from a slip late second half he was faultless.

We did actually have a shot on target first half when Ngog had his back to goal. He slipped and then got up and got a shot on goal and brought a very good save out of Kenny. Should have scored really.

But he handballed it when he slipped, and a freekick was awarded by the linesman. So it wouldn't have counted anyhow.

[ChrisC]

It were shite, folks.

Ngog couldn't trap a bag of cement. Baptiste was caught out of position countless times. Nobody could win a header. Chungy and Eagles were completely anonymous. Bogdan was shaky, and lacking confidence; and given that we've been saying that since he started, maybe he'll never get it. Knight was shocking.

On the slightly less depressing side, Ream looked good, both in midfield and defence. Pratley held the ball up fairly well. Spearing looked for the ball, the only player to do so - although he frequently found himself looking around in frustration as every fecker else ran away from him when he had it. Hall looked our most creative outlet on the day.

The other subs were neither here nor there. Mills and Tierney were average.

Their goal was a direct result of many factors. In the build-up, Knight tried to command Bogdan to come for the ball, when all Knight had to do was shepherd it out for a goal kick. Instead, he panicked, and belted it out for a corner - then bollocked Adam for not rushing out to claim the ball close to the goal-line corner of the 18 yard box, when a Leeds player was in attendance and Adam would have had to go THROUGH Knight to claim the ball. The resulting corner was knocked out again, and the second corner was nodded in by an unmarked Varney, into the far corner of the net, where nobody was stood on the post.

The most we could do was build pressure, but we didn't have enough about us to create a single clear chance. We didn't have a single shot on target, no matter what the BBC puts on its stats (the shot it counted as actually going wide before Kenny got a touch). And 0 shots on goal says it all.

Agree with all this. Ream was a positive from the game. Passed the ball very well and got his foot in. Apart from a slip late second half he was faultless.

We did actually have a shot on target first half when Ngog had his back to goal. He slipped and then got up and got a shot on goal and brought a very good save out of Kenny. Should have scored really.

But he handballed it when he slipped, and a freekick was awarded by the linesman. So it wouldn't have counted anyhow.

Did he? I don't remember that. I sit right next to the dugouts so I sometimes get distracted McDermott got some grief today, especially after having verbals with Pratley after a challenge.. He didn't take to kindly to someone calling him a nonse