[jjamez]

Not one player can come off the pitch thinking they did the bare minimum of what they are capable of. Some serious questions have to be asked of a lot of players, O'Brien was awful, couldn't pass piss let alone a ball on Saturday, high had a couple of good passes but otherwise was given a footballing lesson by howson. toffolo has been off form since he started growing a tash and hasn't looked like getting it back, Thomas has been poor ever since he started getting national attention, his delivery has dropped on quality and his petulance has increased, Saturday he was at fault for the first goal I believe, losing the ball and not looking to get back.

The three centre halves are limited and we know it, so asking them to play like midfielders is always gonna cause us more problems than the opposition, they made watmore look like prime Messi. Turton came on and was his limited self, but arguably wasn't the worst player on the pitch. Sinani somehow stayed on the pitch, I've said it before, I really do not know what he offers, he gives the ball away with silly passes, all one foot, bit of a shadow really, I'd rather an out of form koroma, one goal and he could be back to what he was last season and we really need to keep faith with that. Holmes was typical Holmes, although I think he would be alright in a midfield 3 as someone who would turn and drive at opposition. Danny ward was also typical Danny ward, ran around, lost the ball, ran around a bit more.

We don't offer enough options up top and ward tends to be alone and isolated which doesn't help, I wouldn't mind us staying with 3 at the back, but go with 3-5-2 and leave 2 up top. Be interesting to see if that two on top gets Rhodes into the side