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I don't care if it's at our own expense, I always want them to lose.

Figured I’d throw this in here but for now, so what has gone wrong?? Conceding a horrendous number of goals and we can’t score. But why?? defenders - making horrendous mistakes, costing goals. We weren’t punished on on our winning run, teams missed chances, now we are being punished. Don’t know how ruby continues in the team (for now at least), probably tobers and dorrington in central defense in the near future. Tobers has been positive, not sure on dorrington. Would honestly like to see devlin given a week or two rest, play Jensen right and Mackenzie left for a game or two until he gets his freshness back. Haven’t seen many attacking devlin runs and goals of early season, fatigue?? midfield. Think we stick with topi and okkels wide. Okkels looked much better yesterday, topi is much more confident/aggressive than morris. As much as it’s not working for topi at present, I don’t fault his effort. Central think it has to be shinnie and palaversa. Sivert is just not the early season player he was, he’s not dominating games, makes too many mistakes, and isn’t mobile enough to recover. I thought palaversa was decent yesterday. 10 has to be gueye, he was lively and had chances yesterday. He has good movement, decent skill strength and pace, is creative, needs minutes and sharpness. 9 is the killer, we need to sign one asap as none are good enough. This is huge for our season. The rest of the squad have to bring a positive impact when brought on. Didn’t see that yesterday. Consistency - been too much chopping and changing, I’d say mainly due to injury over form. But on our run we didn’t change much, have to get back to consistency. Good to get one game a week where we can train, work on tactics, and familiarity. tactics - got to be able to keep the ball, that’s huge. But we can’t do that at present. But every week it’s different players, harder to develop chemistry and understanding, especially when new players who haven’t yet trained much. got to have a solid cohesive unit at the back, we had a back up keeper and three new defenders yesterday who have played little together, that’s hard to expect immediate understanding. Work on tobers and dorrington in the middle and devlin Jensen and Mackenzie outside, you can train that 5 be a solid group, but it doesn’t happen immediately. Tougher when your better keeper is injured. We have to be creative in the final third. We’ve had so much rotation and change of personnel in the last two months, makes that hard for consistency, even understanding. Coincides with midweek games where we don’t train nearly as much. Big part of this is having a 9 as a focal point, and we’ve seen duk gueye Ambrose nisbet and sokler there. McGrath clarkson duk nisbet gueye at 10. Impossible to be strong/consistent up top when it’s different personnel almost weekly. summary for me, and this is where I will defend JT. Need a consistent 11 to perform consistently, and impact subs. He’s looking for answers while players are injured or have lost form, plus it’s not his full squad. Still dealing with underperforming inconsistent players we should have punted in seasons past. Let him build a squad and tactics with his players, that takes time. We didn’t allow glass Goodwin or Robson time, I still believe JT is a long term project and he’ll be given time. Just looking forward to a win and a stable team. Repeating myself, but once the window closes I think we’ll see a consistent 11, and I believe performances will improve. Too much change over the last 2 months has hurt us.