[Slick_Footwork]

Don't think Pulis is to blame as the exact same midfield played so well at home in
the last game. I don't agree with playing Baird though, especially at home. The guy
just doesn't get forward enough to play full back anymore. Wisdom or Gamboa
would've been better choices. The result probably wouldn't be much different though
given the wholesale poor performances.

Pressure is on next week now. We will need to be a lot better.

What's a Manager for? Not knocking Pulis overall, but if he can't get the best out of his players, ie putting them in the right frame of mind, massaging egos, playing the right players in their best, comfortable position, what DOES he do? It's no good him saying the players weren't showing enough fight/concentration etc, and "they've been reading too much Social Media comments saying they're safe". It's the Manager (Head Coach) job to fire them up, which Irvine clearly didn't - but Pulis is not doing it well enough either, based on some performances.

Read this bit of Social Media:
If you don't beat Leicester, you're going down with a great big salary drop. There''s every chance you'll get "NIL POINTS" from your last 5 games. And if your Head Coach can't liven you up for Saturday's match, he'll be down the road as well.

IMO Pulis has over achieved with the players we have at our disposal so far.

Saturday we were not as good as we have been at home and maybe he can take his share of the blame
for not motivating the players. But I thought there was a lot of elementary errors rather than lack of effort.

Saturday's game was the realisation of the position we're in and more specifically, how poor our squad
is. We had a second striker on the left wing and a very bog standard central midfielder on the right wing.
Zero in the way of attacking options on the bench for these positions and because of that, the change to
improve us meant putting our best striker into midfield.

I think we've got a lot of mediocre players in our squad in our side such as Baird and Gardner who wouldn't
look out of place in the championship. Sessegnon can be a world beater on his day but doesn't often perform
from the wing while Ideye simply doesn't have anywhere near enough influence on the game. His overall
contribution is comparable with Matej Vydra last season.

I have no idea why we let Samaras and Varela both leave and only replace them with McManaman when we
were already short on the wing.

We definitely need to be better on Saturday and hopefully we will be. But the QPR game highlighted a bigger
problem and showed that our excellent home performances against Swansea and Southampton were really
just papering over the fact that we have a wafer thing squad that lacks top level quality.