Perhaps you should 'give it a rest'?!

Yes, we lost two games we probably expected to - and then only on two penalty decisions in one of them and managed to keep it at two goals despite being down to nine men in another, but...

...the way in which we've approached those two games is setting off alarm bells.

The team that ran out at Charlton looked decent (despite dropping Dave and not playing Cureton, very odd), then it lined up in a farcical 'Christmas Tree' formation which was battered for twenty-odd minutes - once we changed it to 4-4-2 we looked more solid. Why we had a spell in the last fifteen with Brown left wing and Huckerby up front is extremely questionable...

The line-up at Wolves was perplexing, Russell at right wing and Lappin in the middle*?! To then see us back off from the first whistle (the first goal had two opportunities to close the ball), and take twenty five minutes before we registered a telling touch IN THEIR HALF LET ALONE THEIR AREA is pathetic. To not get a shot of any sort until ten minutes from time and a corner is feeble. We rolled over and let our tummies be tickled by a side that had performed abysmally in their defeat to Hull midweek - why not have a go from the off.

I like Grant as a man, having spoken to him pre-Coventry last year I thought he was taking us the right way - but when he's chopping and changing without seemingly any reason and not being one hundred per cent honest despite claiming it's what he always is (if Strihavka was carrying a strain, why was he on the bench at Charlton yet Huckerby's strain kept him out of the squad until he was 100%?!).

I'm concerned, the crowd will turn on Grant - especially if he doesn't win his home games...

* For what it's worth, he could have gone with Marshall; Lappin, Shackell, Doherty, Otsemobor; Huckerby, Brellier, Russell, Croft; Strihavka, Cureton / Brown and actually attacked the game...

Posted By: Declan, Sep 23, 16:58:33