[Slick_Footwork]

Boring... boring... boring...

My posts calling for Sam Allardyce previously were received like a lead balloon, but my thoughts remain the same, we're crying out for a manager who knows how to get results in this league and give us an identity...

What is the identity of this Bilic team? We look like we're going to concede every time the opposition go forward, we never look like we're going to score, we don't press the opposition...

Square pegs in round holes. 5 at the back means a lack of forward options. Then you've got Phillips at fault for the goal for failing to mark Almiron, but what can be expected when we have a player who has played in an offensive midfield role for his entire career having to cover the full back position. You would think we were injury stricken, yet we have a left back with England caps on the bench...

And to add fuel to the fire, Bilic simply doesn't seem to have the lads up for it. How do we expect to get back into the team if we don't press? If we constantly tip tap around going backwards when we have the ball? Sawyers and Krovi just stand off the opposition looking at them, giving them all the time in the world. Sure, they are both neat on the ball, but when you're losing a game you have to try and engage the opposition to win the ball back. I mean I thought academies taught you that at under 10's.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but how Krovi was our 'primary target' in the summer defies belief...

On a positive note, we had a "spell" late in the half. But I can't help feeling that is simply because a leggy, stricken Newcastle side are happy to let us have the ball, knowing we don't move it forward. Knowing we are impotent.

The best we can hope for now, I imagine, is 1-1 like at Brighton. But I'd be shocked if that's possible given it would involve us actually scoring while not conceding...

I'm hoping for a miracle. Never know, stranger things have happened. But at the minute it feels much worse than I anticipated today.