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Wow

Yes today wasn't great and I do think we got it wrong tactically in the second half by letting them ruffle us and us resorting to hoofball. I also think our midfield ran out of ideas around 55-60 minutes & Simmons should have been put on for Leahy then. I also felt we persevered with Fred & GMac for too long & they should have been subbed earlier.

Whilst it wasn't great, most importantly we didn't lose.

Our form hasn't been great since before Xmas with us averaging around 1.5 pts per game, which isn't going to be good enough long term, thankfully our earlier form was significantly better & we can hopefully get back to that with the resources we have available.

We have had mid season blips before & no doubt will again, but mostly we bounced back - fingers crossed we do so again.

I genuinely think we will, at worst, make the playoffs, at best we will hang on to 2nd spot. The run in is going to be nail biting not just for us but everyone from 2nd to at least 8th.

Some wild opinions knocking about tonight. Might have added to it a bit myself by saying the 2nd half was shit.

end of the day though, I’m 100% sure the complaints aimed at Dodds this evening were also aimed at Gaz and Blooms in there first weeks/months (especially in regards to subs)

the 2nd half was shit, but people need to chill a bit. It was still a point away from home at a team that’s scored 6 in there previous 2 and fighting for there lives.

Not sure what all the fuss is about. Dan and Eduard are at the wheel. I'm sure they know what they're doing.

I hear you . You have to agree though that there isn't much point of signing all of those players if they don't play really is there? Westgaard looked like he was starting to get up to pace last week , Lowry looked excellent . They didn't even travel . Simons got 8 minutes . God only knows what is happening with the rest . What worries me is I looked at that starting eleven and I thought hoofball . We have be reverting back to this since the new year and it is certainly what we got today . Grace said they were making tweaks because teams were setting up against us in a low block . His answer to that was to go over the top . We have been doing it for weeks now . I really fear for us . We have not been the team from earlier in the season for a long time . Dodds' has said he will not change much . I think he needs to change a lot ! Today was not on him . Today was just a continuation of what we have seen since Christamas . The warning signs have been there for weeks .

It really would be a Vesuvius eruption!

Disappointing result and by the sounds of it performance today. But some big overeactions. This was Dodds's first league match, so way too early to be making any sort of judgement. I am concerned about a number of new signings seemingly not being fit enough to even make the bench, but that's not Dodds doing and if he doesn't feel they're ready, it shows he is brave enough to make the call of leaving them out of the squad.

Also, whilst in general performances haven't been great recently, Barnsley the other week was one of our best of the season. We left it late, but I thought we were superb that night. Losing Kone is huge for us, so let's hope he's back soon.

Confidence has to be an issue. We were champagne football for much of the season. Slick passing, flicks and tricks. Now we are a million miles away from it. Nervous, error prone, risk averse. Fred is an attack killer consistently wanting to check back instead of rampaging down the line. He gets lost inside and the shape falls apart. GMac went missing for most of the second half too but some of that was down the Crawley of course.

Signing 12 players is bound to cause disruption. Having a new coach the same. Losing a club icon similar. So we should not be surprised the wheels have come off.

It’s going to take weeks for new players and coaches to settle down. To me that says it all. If we hang on to play offs we might have a second wind. Recent performances suggest it’s going to be a horrid decline.

Talk is cheap. Actions (and his body language) suggest he isn’t capable of difficult decisions, exemplified by his choice of matchday squad today.

I wasn’t at the game but ffs some massive over reactions on here, twitter and wouldn’t want to look at facebook . New manager loads of new signings and quite a few important injuries so let’s just chill and see what happens. Maybe the football isn’t great at this time but we have the players to change that have some patience .

Wow, "if" we hang on to the playoffs!

We're still in the top 2 for now, so let's not overreact too much just yet.

We've got 2 home games in 5 days coming. We can react after those.