Mick

No need to apologise, I'll watch the video you've mentioned when I get a minute.

I hate it when threads are bumped for our ex players, I was expecting RIP.

Pre-season has gone well for us and I don't think he was the problem last night. I didn't like his starting 11 too much but I understand why he played who he did. He made changes during the game which were needed but the problem was that too many players let him down and he couldn't change more than 3 players. He'll have more players available next weekend and we'll have a better first 11 because of that.

Perez will be fine over the season, we had a shitter yesterday when nobody looked very good.

He wasn't even bad.

Our movement was garbage last night and that wasn't helped in the first half by Anita who gave the ball away relentlessly and Colback who is a donkey. We had no fluency in our play and we will beat teams like Fulham away once we get that. We need players making runs into space and we need to pass the ball a lot better than we did.

We got pushed around because we held on to the ball far too long and far too often, move the ball around and we'll not get pushed around. Plenty of players who aren't giants can cope with physical players be moving the ball before they're under pressure. They can do that by either making an early pass or just by moving away with the ball. We didn't do enough of either last night and we paid for it.

Change Janmaat for Anita and I would go with that.

They're the clear favourites to go up and virtually every person who comments on us are saying that we're miles better than the other teams in the league, I think the players have believed the hype and will now know they have to work harder.

I think last night being described as a wake up call is a fair comment, some of out players looked as if they just had to turn up and they would go home with the points.

I think Hanley can be a good defender for us, he's nothing flash but I think he will turn out to be solid once he's had more time working for Rafa, he's good backup.

We lost against Fulham because we were a shambles, it had nothing to do with the stature of our players, it was their inability to function as a coherent team.

He might still be a month or two away, regardless, I think he's still our best keeper.

Janmaat huffed and puffed and didn't look much different to last season. He put a few crosses into the box if you can call them crosses but he rarely if ever found his own team mates, sometimes his fault sometimes the fault of others not getting into good positions. I wouldn't hold on to him if anybody came in with a decent offer for him.

A lot of our players will have gone into the game tonight thinking that they could walk the game. I think tonight will be a wake up call and last season has nothing to do with us possibly needing that as the two situations are totally different. As for 4-3-3, it can work if we have the right players being used in that formation. I think Colback getting taken off was a good move and if it takes a defeat to see Colback taken out of the starting 11, I'll accept it.

We have gone unbeaten all pre-season so it's hardly surprising that we started the game with the team that we did. He made the right changes again but they didn't work this time. We'll change things around for Huddersfield and we'll win and our season will kick on from there.

Dummett really isn't good enough to play left back. He's not a good defender and he's not good going forward, even if he does have his moments doing both.

Next Saturday.

Hold on, I'll ask him.

We're desperate for a left back, Dummett is not even good enough in this league.

That was awful at times, in fact more often than not, hopefully that's a one off but it might do us good long term.

He stopped it with both hands.

Brilliant save.