Have to agree although Weirs no Ronaldo he always puts himself about and does alot of the boring stuff.

But overall the straight matter of fact is the squad is poor that’s the simple truth.

Too many times I see the very very basic stuff like a simple 10-15 yard passes go astray or players that are unable to get a ball under control it’s frightening.

These are the very basics of football stuff your taught when your 6 but some of our players still haven’t mastered this ancient art.

Then there’s the thinking before you receive so you’ve an idea were the balls going before you received it but if you,

Can’t pass it

Can’t trap it

And don’t know were it’s gonna go before you get it ?,

You have absolutely no chance of building side not a cat in hells chance. This is simply down to the quality of the individual player and I feel some of ours (not all) are not even L2 level and I mean that.

When Portsmouth let us have Saydee and their fans gave glowing reports I thought , ummmmm, why?. That first game I was thinking we’ve pulled a coupe off there but slowly we all can see there was no method in their madness they let a very average player go, hes simply not good enough.

I think since that first game I’ve seen a handful of minutes were he’s actually played well the rest he offers very little and super easy to defend against hence why he struggles, he’s so poor I’d go as far to say he’s not even at non league level at his best.

Clubs like Portsmouth wouldn’t let a half decent prospect go that’s unless they knew he can’t cut the mustard.  They knew exactly what they were doing shrewd business on their part while we clutched at straws in hope.

Hungbo blows hotter and colder than a blacksmiths tongues and as for Costelloe ? we have better in our U21’s any other side he’d be dropped and wouldn’t make the bench. I’m not sure what his role is another who’s super easy to mark.

There’s plenty more in the side I could mention but like I say the big burning million dollar questions are :-

1) Are some players just not performing

2) Are they playing at their max but are simply not good enough  and L1 is a level too high for them ?

Or

3) Has Lowes poor man management skills which has recently come to the fore with his TV criticism and he’s lost the changing room ?

Some people criticise Lowe, tactially he’s tried it all, 1 up front 2 up 3 up 3 at back 4 & 5 all with mixed results but his man management skills are questionable and dubious and have me worried as a lost changing room seems to be on the horizon.

So up front Saydee & Mullin together is like oil & water. I wouldn’t say there not reading from the same page I’d go as far to say there in different libraries.

At times there so far part it’s scary.  They should be looking for each other, playing off the back of one another but at times it looks like 2 individual forwards on the pitch doing their own thing. There so far apart at times ones on one wing the others on the other and the hole of Calcutta in the middle.

You cannot play any 2 of those 3 forwards together they do not compliment each other in any shape or form any partnership any 2 from 3 does not work that’s a fact.

For me it’s Geldhart 2 time were we drag a wet nosed young lad out the youth and throw him in the deep end.

And why do I say this you might ask?, well because we have no money and an owner who wants Michelin 4 star food with reduced priced date up end of freezer ingredients.

The teams not been clod together it’s been thrown together from the top of the tall flats in Scholes.

It’s a hotch botch of unwanted players with no value bar 2 who don’t look happy which Lowe has confirmed is the case with some who cannot wait till the season ends.

Come summer 2026 there’ll be the usual 15-18 gone either contracts up or sold (Tickle Carragher) and this yearly cycle carries on with no aim or long term plan.

I’m sorry but I can’t keep thanking Danson for saving us, thats well behind us at some point we need to build not botch a side.

As it stands looking at the current crop, the levels of some of them we’ll be lucky to make top half.

I spoke with a couple of lads in their mid 20’s and their picking and choosing.

I noticed that, the whole place seems to be run on crumbs,

We all know the saying

If you pay peanuts you get monkeys

Some of the security staff could break wind nevermind a scuffle.

I’m just waiting for the West Stand to be cordoned off in the corner so when a club brings lets 500 or less they can close the North End hence penny pinch. Then the away fans can freely drink beer and walk through the concourse.

I bet Lowes thinking wtf have I done to deserve this ??. I said last year the whole place feels like a dull grey lifeless club with no soul or passion.

I’ll still say the best time we had for the feel good factor was under Talal.

We all know the outcome but for that short period of time we felt good and had hope.

Right now, I’m so close to not bothering. I know quite a few who have given up the ghost and no longer bother.

Weres the next gen gonna come from if we don’t ?, sad times. To me the catalyst was the Bolton game. Since then everything seems to have got gradually worse both on and off the field.

One minute we’re thinking, play offs here, the next minute relegation here

I’m always baffled when a club sign a player, then a few games later loan him out, sign a replacement on loan no better than the player they’ve loaned out.

Mellish and Darcey were both signed on 3.5 & 2.5 year deals then loaned out a few months later.

I actually thought Mellish was growing into the job ok. He use to put himself about and just didn’t look fit tbh.

My point is, who the f**k is picking these players in the first place if a couple of months later their gone ??.

Were masters at this game, I’ve lost count the number of players we’ve signed then loaned straight back out then loan back in players who are average and cannot even get a game at their own club.

Saydee ?, he’ll be gone soon enough. To me he clearly looks like he doesn’t want to be here, whether it’s a case of, he can’t settle or he doesn’t get on with the manager I don’t know but something isn’t right and I’ll explain why I think this:-

In Lowes post match analysis after the Wycombe defeat he mentioned about certain players not picking up stuff (putting things away) after training and cleaning boots ??.

Now to me if this was a simple keep telling players like kids and a messy kids bedroom he wouldn’t mention it but it’s clearly annoyed him so much  to the point that, he felt the need to tell the press which is alarm bell ringing time.

I never heard any manager come out with something so petty in an interview so to me he’s had a dust up with one or two over what’s probably petty things but they’ve mushroomed out of all context and because he’s the gaffer he’s like a dog with a bone.

I’ll bet anyone £20 that the current changing room is Chernobyl toxic with players, managers and staff  clashing. I bet you can cut the atmosphere with a knife and it’s spilling into training and our match day performances.

Lowes facial expression in his interview and the way he mentioned about, “if you don’t do as your told your out” could make us or break him.

There’s no way we can from being electric in that opening day fixture to this. 8 players out that opening day started or featured against Wycombe.

There’s definitely something not right 100%. Some owners will back the manager when a changing is lost take Utd with Rashford and Garnacho. But we’re not Utd and we simply don’t have the funds to get rid and bring in replacements. And let’s not forget, we’ve an owner who, if he opened his wallet in the changing room every player would pull out an asthma inhaler.

I’m sorry but we all know how this one’s gonna end for Lowe,

like Dick Dastardly, he’s destined to lose

And the one against Wolves U21’s weren’t far behind, they were both tugging at each other

I’m not so sure that was the reason Costelloe was left out I think it was more of a formation thing. We played with the one up top so it would be pointless having 2 forwards on the bench and Mullin would always win over Costelloe.

Also, why was Adeeko left out? same applies to Trevitt and Wright, I’m thinking as your thinking, he’s giving instructions out and their not taking them on board hence young Jack Rodgers made the bench which is brilliant to see.

At least Lowes prepared to change things up especially when it’s not working. He knows he hasn’t got that 2 or 3 quality players that every good side needs so he’s experimenting which we can’t knock.

Overall it wasn’t a sparkling performance but it was all about stopping the rot so 5-4-1 was for me the right thing to do.

There’s nothing we could have done about that joke of a pen but at least we managed to score and what a ball by Saydee to Murray and same goes to Murray, a top finish.

But yeah, I hoped Lowe wouldn’t take the same path as Maloney sticking to the same system and players so I’m glad he’s brave enough to swap mix & match.

The simple truth is, we have a decent average squad not much flare all about effort.

As the saying famous saying goes:-

“insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

Lowes proving if you work hard and play to a game plan your in (oh and scouse)

The straight bottom line is, the quality throughout the club is not there. We can talk discuss argue about players and starting line ups but the depth of the squad is paper thing.

Were 2-3 first team players missing and were a totally different side.

I do not think it’s a coincidence that when we lost against Luton, Salford, Bolton and Wycombe Adeeko started.

For me the lads a liability. He constantly fails to track runners and they seem to be able to breeze past him care free his tackling for large parts is poor.

He has these big lapses in concentration were opposition can easily go past him and it kills us but for some reason when he’s fit he’s in.

Central midfield is the one position we’ve plenty of cover when fit with 8 possibly 9 fighting for 3 places.

M.Smith, Trevitt, Wright, Cooper, Brenan, Weir, Francois, even Murray but for some reason Adeeko’s straight back in.

I was only praising the way Smith Wright and Trevitt dealt with Doncaster hounding, harassing then quickly winning the ball back, they had a good understanding of each others on field role covering each others backs which is key.

They protected our back 3 against Doncaster only for Lowe to break the trio up it for the Bolton game when it wasn’t broken and look what happened.

It’s a key position that midfield role and most games are won or lost there with around 50% of most games taking part in the middle of the park and wide mid.

We’ve Cardiff Saturday and if we start with a makeshift back 3 and Adeeko in front we might just struggle.

We desperately need to invest in the squad. We can’t keep having huge amount of player turn over every year basically 10 to 14 out in every summer. We need 4-5 decent quality players who can help the younger lads hence why McManaman’s  here.

We need people like him who are passionate about the club that remind others we’ve a fighting underdog spirit at the club otherwise we’d end up with a bunch of wage bill players passing through till they find bigger and better things or their here to end their days.

Fingers crossed for Sat no matter who plays every player on that field for that 90 minutes will get my support regardless but the away results coupled with the last 2 games at best I can us finishing two thirds of the way down the table 10th-16th I’d say