[aries22]

We were blown away at Swansea, 3-0 wasn't it, we absolutely failed to turn up or put up any sort of fight. I went to the Fulham home game and we should have won that but we let their midfield boss us and Berbatov scored with a soft goal. Reading was the last straw for me. At 2-0 and with little more than 10-15 minutes to go, Clarke made a substitution he didn't have to make - taking off Dorrans of all people, who I think had scored one of our goals, not sure - and we collapsed. The run of four successive defeats did for him, and Irvine's been given more leeway, having also suffered the same losing run, and I do wonder if JP is being weak over Irvine, realising we can't keep chopping and changing managers, or whether he realises he sacked Clarke just a tad too early. Only JP knows the answer to that one. I was glad he was gone, but we failed to replace him anywhere near adequately or quickly enough.