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Weston, Brown, Robinson and Fapetu should have played more games between them with Weston maybe even being a starter. Fapetu looked twice the player Fornah has proven to be.
But Whilst Warne is in charge, may as well close the academy, close the case and close the thread.
 

I don’t know. Warne probably doesn’t either as he barely gave any of our academy lads a chance in the EFL Trophy. A big opportunity missed to check if these players are ready in a non pressure situation.

We’d be stupid to let Fornah go, changed the midfield around today and suddenly we looked alright. Hourihane is the problem 

Cheltenham are a club that likely have a budget that is absolutely dwarfed by Derby, who are scrapping at the bottom of the league. We should expect to beat them at home. That's not arrogance, that's just setting reasonable expectations. The standards are in the floor if that's considered to be a controversial take. 

Every team has injuries and missing starters and players that need a breather. It's league one. We actually have a deeper squad than most. Not really a valid excuse is it? Everyone accepts that it's better to win the games, but the manner of performances are genuinely troubling. And it isn't a one off. Everyone can understand a one off bad game, but it's becoming a pattern now. 

I'll drop my opinions about Warne and how garbage the performance was for 70 minutes of that match.
Collo's goal was superb. He had zero service the entire game, ran his nuts into the ground yet again. One good cross and he got that brilliant volley in. What a player. I thought he'd be a broken man by now with that constant chasing down and battling. He got his rewards. Superb striker. 

Another absolutely rancid display by a team that deserved all the booing they got at half time. You’d they’d want to show a reaction after Reading, but they just carried on where they left off.
Tactics all wrong by Warne as well, he has to stop with this two in midfield s*** - it’s no coincidence our bad performances have started since we switched to 4-4-2. Absolutely awful system that has no place in the modern game. Totally overrun yet again.
Fed up of our only tactic being launch it to the wings and whip it in - it’s so one dimensional. When we actually use the midfield and try to play a bit of football through the thirds, then we look so much better! Why can our dinosaur of a manager not see this…
Im beginning to really dislike this team itself, as well as the fraud in the dug out. At least the team that went down had some character. This lot couldn’t give a f***. And as for captain Hourihane… words can’t describe my feelings towards his “leadership”.
We were so lucky to win that game today, it’s only a moment of individual quality from Max Bird that turned it around. It’s time this manager and this team got a f****** grip. Performances this week have been truly pathetic, were meant to be the best team in the league!

a stunning free kick got us into the game,the only piece of football played in the entire match got us 3 points,there is no excuse for the total dross served up for the rest of the game

If Warne can’t see the issue Hourihane causes after that then he never will. Now is the time to make the change. Drop him. We need energy and movement. 

Warne simply has to address the midfield. It's a glaring issue that until late in the game today he has simply refused to address 

We are winning this in spite of Warne. We are winning simply because we have better players, and it has been the case many times this season.
It’s garbage football over and over again.

The team are not coached to have any control. Another midfielder will not help if Warne continues to employ the tactics he wants us to play football.
I say football. It’s pinball. Players must be being encouraged to move it as forward as quickly as possible, taking no more than 3 touches. Chaotic, gas out type football.
I thought we might go up with our squad automatically, even with him in charge. I am beginning to think not.

Very disappointing performance. I'm not going to rage against PW or be wise after the event but of our three CM's was Thompson really the one to come off first? He offers more mobility than the other two and possibly more of a goal threat too given his energy levels.
I would have put Robinson in at DM with the ever-underwhelming Hourihane making way for him. Easy for me to sit here playing pretend manager but I honestly don't think we're bound for the automatic spots and if we made the playoff final the thought of Bird and Hourihane as a duo on that big Wembley pitch is a serious concern. 
We couldn't ask for a better bounce-back opportunity than a home match against a relegation threatened side but Cheltenham are much improved in fairness. 
On a positive note, Callum Elder was a deserved Rams' MOTM and he's improving with regular games.
 

I genuinely can't stand this football, I do not enjoy watching this team at all. When we are winning you kind of stomach it but as soon as the form drops off it's full on suicide watch stuff. How can you be that bad as a team? Do they even train together?

Which is exactly why I believe he won't be our manager this time next season. Either we go up and get hammered every week and he gets binned, or we fail to go up and get gets binned.

One criticism I would have of today is that why have players like Brown on the bench if you aren't going to chuck him on to try and get a goal. Just off the back of scoring 5 in one game, whatever standard that is, he's going to be full of confidence. Sometimes there's games like today where you just need one to go in off someone's backside, so he'd have been a good backside for it to go in off.

What is the point in brown being on the bench?

The season is 23/24 and Forsyth being injured is detrimental to our promotion chances. You could've said that in 2013/14 too and it would've been true. Testament to him as a player, really. 

I like the lad. You can see he's got a bit of real quality to him and, as someone else said earlier in this thread, he's got a real talent of shifting the ball out of his feet and getting a shot off.
With a good run of games, I can see him scoring some important goals for us.

He was wanting the ball to feet so many times, moving into pockets of space. We refused the pass and went sideways. It happened constantly. You could see how wound up by it he was getting. There's definitely a player there though, he has one of the better first touches and other than Sibley, he's probably the only player we have who can shift it and get a shot off.

Totally agree. I want to see us start building for the future, no more stop gap signings

Taking his name out of it I’d be interested to hear we were looking at signing a 20 year old midfielder, who’s a youth international that came through United’s academy and has been playing league one football this season with 4 goals and 1 assist across 28 appearances in all competitions. 
It fits the profile of who I’d want us to be signing, younger players with potential for their ability on the pitch as well as their re-sale value to the club. 

Really good old fashioned centre forward play to put NML in for the first goal. He's got a bit of quality, needs coaching up a bit and game time but glad we've got him until the end of the season. We could definitely make better use of his technical ability in and around the opposition area. 

Corey Blackett-Taylor, shown around training ground Monday. Know nothing more than that 

I think it’s backfired us not playing some more youngsters now in this competition. We’ve learnt nowt from playing our first team players and now don’t have a final to fall back on. This was an ideal time to sound out the Weston’s, Robinsons, Browns and Fapetu. 
The league was always the priority, but a final would’ve been nice. This was an ideal opportunity wasted to give some U18s/23s a go.