[betterthanbaird]

Forgot to use our 3 subs again - normal

Did you see our bench?

Anyway that was awful, especially considering that was an important game where we needed a win.

First half was the worst I can remember us playing this season, since several of them decided not to pass to teammates anymore, definite improvement in the 2nd half but we struggled to create clear cut chances. Just kept putting in the box without looking like scoring. First goal they practically gifted to us and the 2nd was a very clear dive. Normally I'm positive after a late equaliser but that was such a poor performance, defence looked all over the place too, Forest should have had a penalty in stoppage time too.

Phillips can't come back soon enough, we lose so much going forward without him.

You can't not use the subs and then publicly say your players are jaded? well you can how stupid of me. Also history shows us when Philips comes back from an injury lay off it takes him weeks to get back on form.

You're right it does take him awhile and by the time he's in for again, we'll have no chance of automatics. Realistically I can't see us going up through the play offs either, our defence is still shit and we're finding it much harder to create chances.

Think we need to use the fact that we'll be here for at least 2 seasons as an opportunity to sort out the squad. We need to get the average age of the squad down a fair bit more (how many midfielders over 30 do we need? Certainly not 5), and make some decent permanent signings. If we can rebuild the squad properly now, we won't be forced to do it every summer for the foreseeable future. I'm personally happy for us to be in the championship for another season cos it makes a nice change to see us scoring goals and winning matches but I don't know how it will affect us financially, which is probably the biggest factor in how the club will develop.