Mick

Too far, think about the victims.

It's one of the problems, we are hampered by injuries to Hayden and Yedlin and all in all our squad is nowhere near as good as many seem to think it is. I think the players are also still very nervous and apprehensive when playing at home in front of 50,000 moans and groans at every single misplaced pass. Agreed, look at the difference between the first and second half against Bristol.

Our issues at home are not as simple as tactics, before Saturday we've had an average of 59% possession which doesn't suggest that we just hoof it, like we did yesterday. Our average possession figure suggests that we're a team that is patient in the build up. Our previous 4 home defeats have seen us have 65%, 68%, 66% and 64%. Saturday was a one off in that respect and the only time we've been taken apart at home this season.

Against Ipswich every one of our players touched the ball in our build up to our first goal, the first Ipswich player to touch it was the keeper when he picked the ball out of the net.

He doesn't really have time to do much work with the players on anything as we have one game on top of another and have had that earlier in the season. I would expect that the training we're doing at the minute is very light.

Don't even joke about it.

I think the previous 3 away games were part of the reason for our poor display yesterday, too many players were far too sluggish in everything they did, they just weren't sharp at all.

I could tell that he didn't have long in his job on Friday after the Brighton game, his TV appearance seemed to be aimed at his bosses as he was virtually pleading for more time.

I thought that they would at least wait until the end of the season before getting rid of him, I guess that's another canny pay off for failure.

It was rancid, I could have gone home after 15 or 20 minutes because I never thought we were in the game.

We didn't, our back line was far too close to Darlow for too much of the game because we had no movement, we seemed to push them further back once they scored their second goal and that was probably them going back slightly to protect the lead. We had virtually the whole of the Fulham half in which to hit the ball for somebody to run onto and we couldn't even do that. We either sent it out of play or we hit one of their players because we had no movement in the middle of the park.

Hoying it forward wasn't the problem, it was the way that we did it that was the problem and I doubt he told them to just hoy it forward anyway. I would expect that he did tell them to get at them and try to hit them early and on the break which we didn't do. We either hit it too long or hit it into space where nobody was or was prepared to run into. At least you've hit the nail on the head with your last sentence.

Our tactics weren't inept yesterday, the performance of most of the players was inept and tactics are not to blame for that.

He's one of the last players we need to replace, he goes missing because he's over worked at times.

Our players were never close enough to theirs, we actually put in tackles at times when the Fulham player had already gone, at times it was laughable what we were doing, or trying to do.

I thought we battered Reading and also battered Birmingham, they're two that come to mind. Some of the crowd reaction was awful, the bloke in front of me deserved a slap for the way that he went on. I've came away from some games and wondered how we hadn't scored more goals because we've had plenty of chances to do so.

He's had an operation so they will know what the healing time is for it and they'll know when to bring him back. If he's ready for Birmingham, play him.

He was all over the place, usually a defender gets caught out of position when they're going forward and can't get back in time, Anita was doing that and he was also coming inside and leaving his man in acres of space to attack us.

I don't think tactics cost us yesterday, tactics don't stop us passing to each other and I doubt we were told to sit off them because that's not something we normally do, it's happened before but it isn't normal.

He did do that, the only problem is that the replacement is currently injured.

It's probably no consolation, you've witnessed the worst game I can remember seeing this season.

And he thinks it's a positive that he didn't get booked.

Out of interest, what was he like for you when you played at home?