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Agreed. Failing to get results or even play well in games as important as these have been completely unacceptable. Bolton must be absolutely delighted that we’ve yet again gifted them an opportunity to overtake us.

So they cheated to get there, cheated to stay up and have been given the equivalent of a slap on the wrist for it. Outrageous

Dire yet again. Get Warne gone and bring someone in to look at getting us promoted next year, playing actual football in the process. Hilariously depressing to hear Washington is potentially out until the end of the season with a knee issue. An issue he’d had operated on in the summer, and we still chose to sign him knowing our budgets were limited. Who in their right mind would sign a 31 year old striker who has just had a knee op. I’m not sure what’s more amateur, Warnes tactics or his transfer decisions.

Bolton losing puts us up to 3rd. Pompy winning though

Not a fan of that lineup/formation but we’ll see… Blackett-Taylor “injured” is intriguing, could be legit as the noises from the club were that he was able to play against Charlton when signing. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious! Can’t help but think that Ward and Sibley as fullbacks leaves us quite exposed. Neither are great defensively. Wish we had Wildsmith back in goal. Vickers has done ok, but I don’t feel as comfortable with him in. Be good to see how that midfield 3 gets on though! Been crying out for a bit more energy in the middle. Would be nice to see us actually using the middle of the pitch in this game mind. You ramssss

I don’t think it’s entitled for the fans to want a striker in, a position that everyone, including the manager had highlighted as a priority. Plenty of clubs in this league with less money than us signed a striker. We needed bodies in as we literally have no fit backups. This month was purely and simply a failure

Can’t stand these kind of responses. If the club were open and transparent instead of getting fans hopes up, the reactions would be a lot more understanding. Why go around telling the media there are pots to spend to strengthen and then fail to do so? The club have thoroughly let the fans down this January.

Completely and utterly disgraceful. Everybody involved in our recruitment process should be thoroughly embarrassed and out the door before the start of next season. This is absolutely not acceptable. Fuming doesn’t cover how I’m feeling

We’ve had 6 months to line up targets and a month to get them finalised. Without knowing the full inner workings of the recruitment process it’s hard to pin blame on one person, but the manager ultimately will be the one that will need to go if we fail to be promoted this year.

20 minutes to go but it’s not looking great is it… Failing to strengthen further will undoubtedly cost us promotion and you’d think Warne his job. Unless something drastic happens this January has yet again has not been good enough

Willing to see what he can do, but sounds like more of another puts a shift in midfielder as opposed to a technical player. Our midfield issues aren’t going to be resolved by running around more… That said, if he comes in we change the system allowing the likes of Bird and Hourihane to do the better bits of football I can’t see why he won’t improve us. 11 games played in 2 seasons is obviously pretty concerning, even if his injury was a freak one. His last full season was 2 years ago at league 2, which again is concerning. Not trying to pile on and be overly negative, but from a realistic standpoint this doesn’t strike me as a player we’ve scouted for a while and he’s a massive gamble both ability and fitness wise. Hopefully he adds a bit of something in the middle, and at minimum he’s another body in for the run in to cover injuries.

Find it incredibly frustrating that Fornah and Ward are being linked with leaving. Warnes signings (mostly) haven’t shown much of anything to improve us, and if we’re already looking at letting two of them go 6 months after signing then surely we need to be asking big questions of Warne and the recruitment team again?

It’s very telling that our two most notable players in last few games have been whoever is playing left back

We’re looking so poor yet again so far

Exactly this! This thread feels like we’re placing blame on the midfield (admittedly I don’t think bird or Hourihane have been good enough this year) when in reality most of the problem is tactical. We flat out don’t use the midfield effectively. Warne outright said last night that they’d tried to bypass the midfield. Why after that clearly hadn’t worked all game we decided to throw on 2 more wide players and try it again baffles me. If it’s not getting the ball up the field outwide quickly, Warne doesn’t have any other ideas. I don’t recall a single attack going through the centre of the pitch last night.

Yep. My biggest concern about going up. His Rotherham teams were absolutely shambolic in the championship and had nothing to do with their budget. I think he’d had done alright 15/20 years ago, but football has dramatically changed since then. Sadly for us, Paul Warne hasn’t

Warne for not the first time this season stating that they actively chose to bypass the midfield. In a game that we were looking to go top of the league against a team 4th from bottom. Tactically clueless and utterly no faith in your central midfield players

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Absolutely bottled about as easy of an opportunity to go top of the league as you’ll get. The players and coaching staff should be utterly ashamed of themselves. My biggest frustration is with how poor we are, and have been all season. If we had an even half decent manager, capable of playing good football we’d win this league by an absolute mile. Our position in this league is entirely down to us having better players than the other teams in the division, not down to tactics. I’m not calling to sack Warne, but I do believe he’s never going to be the manager we need him to be. If we go up this year I think it would be difficult to reflect on it as being a good year footballing wise, and I’d be extremely surprised if he was still our manager 12 months down the line. Fail to go up this year in a league this poor and he absolutely has to go.

Have we played a single ball through the middle all night? Hasn’t worked at all down the wings yet again and yet we’ve tried nothing different

Wilson off and Bradley on?! I really hate this club sometimes

Over 75 minutes played and we’ve not had a shot on target away at 4th from bottom Reading. That is utterly disgraceful

Surely that should’ve been a second yellow?

This is absolutely awful. That shot wasn’t bad though!

Praying this is real

Taking into account the level of opposition, wage budgets, size of the clubs etc. Warne is the worst manager we’ve ever had imo