JDTs interview will be interesting. Total disaster of a game. I really hope he recognises that.

Lol - why did Hirst take that?

This is a loss 100% down to the manager. The team was setup poorly and we did nothing about it.

Can't begrudge Cardiff that at all.

Move me into the worried about JDT camp. Weve been hugely tactically outplayed but weve just soldiered on. Cardiff should be two or three ahead at least, it's pure luck, Cardiff being rubbish, and good last ditch defending that we're all square .

If we don't go back to three at the back at half time JDT needs shooting.

I don't think its fair on him and Travis. Theyre outnumbered and overwhelmed.

Theres passing out from the back and there's pretending were Man City or Barcelona. This is farcical.

Have to say this is one of the all time tactical disasters for me.

Were tactically all over the show. It's kind of disrespectful to Cardiff. Were saying we can pass through them from the 6 yard box and leave four players up front. It's mad?

You can see how the whole balance of this game hugely fancies Cardiff. We have to do something.

That was ridiculous from Dolan...Hedges was free. Let's get S Wharton and Dack on and get back to 352. Will be a huge improvement.

Well yeah that's a massive issue in itself. But also with the 4231 they can just ghost through us anywhere. We were defensively really good against Millwall till the last 10 mins. Why have we put that in the bin?

JDT keeps on pushing so many players up. Why not have one more in the middle?

We look so much more vulnerable in a 4231.

Really odd that we've gone 4231 again off the back of a win. Also Scott Wharton is our best distributor from the back. Maybe it's fitness related?

Hedges at right wing / number 10 combo was certainly interesting and Hedges had a good game himself, but I didn't really see enough in it to continue with the experiment. He added link up play centrally on one hand, but completely robbed us of width down the right. Better teams than Millwall could have had a field day down our right side. Brittain should come back in unlesss there is a significant fitness issue. He's one of our best players.

Can't see us changing the system. We need to settle into it. Ayala could be dropped but then I guess Hyam goes central and Carter at RCB

Team I'd like to see.... Kaminski Hyam Ayala S Wharton Brittain Travis Buckley Pickering Dack Hedges BBD Just think Hedges links up and offers more of a goal threat than Gallagher up front, while Buckley will be more incisive than Morton. Harsh to drop Dolan but we need to give Dack a go in this formation. Dolan and Gallagher to come on around 60 mins for Dack and Hedges, and we shift to 343.

The way I'd sum us up now is if we can sort out the final pass we should make playoffs. Reckon we'll do it. Just need to get Dack/Buckley/Adam Wharton into the midfield and make it work. Were not in a false position, we've played some good teams. Just need to keep refining. Winning games while not playing particularly well is a good sign, not a bad one. Shows we've got more to come.

Good context that, thank you for posting. I don't really see why people reckon we will do worse than last season. We should be aiming to do at least as well. We lost Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell but Hyam, Brittain and Morton/A Wharton/Buckley seem roughly as good to me. Not really sure how we are supposed to have got worse, as evidenced by the results.

Fantastic work as always, touch very much lacking as always....

Yeah.... Going forward we got very little out of Brereton and Gallagher. Still think we should put an extra mid in and play just two strikers. The way we score is by getting the forwards in and around the box and find right pass. Dack would have had a field day today at number 10.

Good win. Though to be fair Millwall were awful. And after being absolutely untroubled by them for 70 mins we looked very vulnerable towards the end though... Feels to me like weve got the defence sorted generally. Need to still work on the midfield and forwards. We kept breaking down and wasting good breaks. Got a very kind run of games till the world cup. Need to make the most of them.

Don't really agree, they didn't get a sniff and we generated half a dozen decent breaks first half. Just out through balls were rubbish. We were well on top generally.