Is it really his fault if he's given barely a budget to work with? Wahstedt is looking a painfully bad signing though. How many points has that one signing cost us now? Bit of an exaggeration but he spent the family silver to do it too.

Having no dangerous strikers in the squad gives the opposition less to think about. They can commit players forward knowing that our forwards are pretty much inert. Especially when Ennis came on. Keep Szmodics quiet and that's half the job done. Also today there were chances we should have put away before they got an equalizer. If we played more defensively, there's no way we'd have scored that many goals. But it's also no surprise we can't defend. Zero experience, injuries to three first teamers and our fullbacks can attack but aren't great at defending. And then there's the issue with fitness and us grinding out the last 10-15 with the bench we have. We won't do it bringing on players like Markanday and Ennis.

Then direct your rage at Waggott, the bullshit merchant who knew the taps were being turned off but then allowed Broughton to bring in a manager on the pretence we were going to steadily build a decent side. It's never been the remit to play like men, or to have any ambition other than staying out of L1. And that's the kind of ambition that lands you in L1.

Carter will be being shopped around.

Tried that loads of times. If anything it just expedites things. Ennis looks awful. I think our only battler was Tronstad.

Just my opinion, but to my eyes we didn't look too bad today for a team with obvious deficiencies. We didn't win because we have a poor goalie and we didn't put away our chances. We also have two mediocre full backs who were huffing away at the 75 minute mark, both looking better going forwards than defending. Not signing an experienced defender, as JDT requested is also biting us massively in the arse. When we had a free option waiting to sign it looks even more ludicrous. Then you look at the bench and expecting any of them to come in and make a difference is always going to end in disappointment. Telalovic seemed to do the basics a lot better than Ennis and it's no surprise that we suffered when he went off. Despite that we still didn't look too open today. We're always going to concede in the last ten with the injuries we have and no one to come on to grind the game out. In any case, even if he adapts we seem to be stuck with a goalie who gives the opposition a goal head start every game.

That's because that's where we're at. You'll keep hearing it till Venkys put their hands in their pocket or Gregg finds a barrel worth scraping.

But asking a professional footballer not to cross the ball in that position is counter intuitive. It's not their fault we can't recruit anyone to get on the end of the balls they are putting in. Ennis should be putting himself about more but he looks like another pointless signing. Over the Christmas period, people were saying we were overpassing it too.

Telalovic at least had some presence about him which made space for the other players going forward. I said at the time Ennis and Markanday were a downgrade compared to the players that went off. Ennis being the worst of the two but at times Markanday looked like he was trying to play on roller skates.

I imagine because the players are in a position to cross and that's their only option? If you think crossing the ball in a football game is the problem then let's just agree to disagree on where the problems lie.

We played well today until a handful of players were knackered and had to make some subs. Rotherham didn't deserve a point, but that's what happens when the taps get turned off and you have owners and their underlings who don't understand the rudimentary demands of a football team.

Weird how the head coach is being blamed for this. I'm watching it and I'm seeing stretched and in some cases sub-par players being asked to win football games week after week. There's been crosses going into the box and no one on the end of them, because we have no notable strikers. Goalie poor again. Disappointed not to see Gilsenan show what he can do but besides that this is on lack of or poor recruitment, and not just this year.

I say it every game but... Venkys out. People will blame the style of play but we've been okay today. Too many tired legs and an overall lack of quality/experience on the pitch particularly at the back and up front. It doesn't help that the goalie gives the opposition at least one goal every match.

That time of the match where we have some knackered players and not much to bring on.

Anyone else think Ennis should have done better with that header?

That's a downgrade.

Second game in a row referee has gotten in the way of play to help the opposition.

I'd be biting my nails if we were 4-0 up.

Hill got a bit of luck there, but then put through a quality ball. Good finish from Szmod. Thank goodness he's stepped up this season.

He's been okay, but we're missing a clinical player in the box.

They did miss out on the play offs last season but on the other hand the second half of the season wasn't great and it was obvious that we needed strengthening in key areas and a bit of depth added. You can carry lesser players but not if you don't build on the quality you have. We're a lower mid table squad as we don't have any decent strikers, and this season it seems any decent goalies. We're also too reliant on kids in the first team but especially on the bench. I can't agree with Pickering as I've always thought he was a poor signing. His offensive work sometimes masks his defending, but I think overall he's a very poor defender. The same goes for Brittain too. I remember the few games where we did take fewer risks and we barely entered the opposition box and still lost. I'm not saying JDT is blameless, but don't think he has much choice with the players we are stuck with. At one of the later games (before the story was broke) I was told Waggott was planning to sell our best young players and get rid of any high earners to keep the lights on. That came from someone within the club who was pissed off, and it was being discussed (in disgust) amongst the players. Can't be a motivator! So I know who I blame.

Dominated the game so far but we're still lacking a striker, and now we're lacking a goalie. Should be more than 1-0 up, go in at the break 1-1 with them hitting the woodwork in the closing seconds.

Those deliberate handballs.

There's no way Hyam is fit. He's been rushed back due to lack of options. Carter is over-rated in my opinion. Not a kid any more but still making schoolboy errors. Brittain had a few good matches when he joined. He has the odd decent game going forward but he's an awful fullback. Aside from the odd decent game where he gets stuck in, Pickering is a poor fullback and has been since Mowbray was here. People seem to have buried their head in the sand over this for some reason. Maybe it's because we're never going to get anyone better. Moran is a young lad out of form and I suspect fatigued from not being used to so many minutes. When he first came into the team he struggled but then got up to speed and looked great. But I'm not surprised he's ran out of steam as he only turned 20 in October. I think he's also missing JRC and Dolan as his decline seems to have coincided with their absences. We didn't have the best squad at the beginning and now with injuries/fitness issues it's showing us up for what we are. A lower mid-table club.

Possibly mid January now.