Hound I’m not exactly slitting my wrists but it’s frustrating to lose it. Yes it’s not a big competition but a very good chance to have had a bit of fun and a day out at Wembley. Now we’ve just the grind of avoiding relegation to look forward to.
For all of our upturn there’s still more than a suspicion as noted above that we are heavily reliant on Smith/Knibbs/Azeez. In a way that’s fair enough as they are our 3 main forwards but would be really concerned if any of the 3 were out for any period of time. More than 1 out of the 3 out and I think we’d be stuffed
Yes, it should be no surprise that we look blunt with our two top scorers in the League out. And a CM playing AM.
It's clear that Kelvin and Smith play differently as strikers. But we expect Kelvin to just fit in to Smith's role with no alterations regardless. And off the back of almost no sub minutes.
We're not doing enough to bring our back up players up to speed and match ready, in ways that hit their strengths and limit weaknesses.
I think our squad continues to be managed badly, although in a different way to Ince.
Not really fussed by outcome or performance. Disappointing, but effort is unlikely to translate into league. We dominated, but couldn't finish - without top two league scorers.
Shit happens. L1 teams get beat by U21s sometimes.