Originally Posted by
John Buchanan
Thanks again Bob.
Usually after such a listless, shambolic, poor city performance I would feel annoyed, angry, vitriolic.
After this game I felt mainly disappointed and of course worried.
The fact that the players appear so mentally and physically "knackered" is particularly worrying: teams that possess this attribute rarely survive a nasty relegation scrap.
But mostly I felt disappointed that there was such a high level of confusion, uncertainty and disorder in the set up, tactics and personnel. I really thought that Lamouchi and (the still surprisingly invisible) Bamba had enough about them to provide the leadership, structure and certainty that all players (especially those short on quality) need. I still hope and (I think) think they do have it, but we need to see it and we need to see it now. Time is running out. We really should not have to be using the word clueless at this level but that's what was in my head.