[Slick_Footwork]

Best striker in the league on the left wing, 2 new wingers on the bench. Johnston passes to Barry with three opposition around him. Brunt!!

Pulis’ subs changed his formation and tactics. BD makes like for like changes.

I’m sick of this playing out of the back, it must have cost us 10 goals against so far.

When are BD, Jones and Johnston gonna learn. It’s slipping away folks.

I think another manager could do so much more with this squad of players.

I was frozen and angry at full time but not really surprised. Same mistakes by players and management and a non existent owner.

Very good analysis. I too have my heart in my mouth whenever Johnstone tries to play these intricate balls through the lines. Bond has done the same in the cup games too, so this nonsense is obviously coached. The worst of it is, whenever Johnstone does a bad pass down the centre, our centre backs will have code really wide to open passing lanes, so we're then completely open, like yesterday.

The stupid even more illogical about this nonsense is that, whenever Johnstone does decide to play it wide to Hegazi on the left edge of the box, all he does is boot it with his wrong foot anyway. Johnstone could've put us in a better area by going long in the first place.

I love the idea of total football, but putting yourself in unnecessary sh*te isn't the foundations of that.

At least when Barnes was playing, we had some logical reason to invite the press, because he could usually be found between the lines. Without him, I really don't see the point. None of Gayle, Rodriguez or Kanu seem to float likes Barnes did.

There seems to be a new found obsession with 'playing out from the back' that has correlated with Man City's success under Guardiola. But what these moronic managers can't seem to get their heads around is you can't coach that, players are either great footballers or they aren't. Guardiola has purposely bought a goalkeeper who could probably play in midfield for most sides. He hasn't tried to coach donkeys to do it.

The likes of Barry and Livermore are good at winning the 2nd ball, while Gayle and Rodriguez are very competitive off the first ball anyway, so we seem more effective on the occasions when Johnstone goes direct.