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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.

I posted in the first video of him arriving that he gave the wrong impression by hugging everyone even though he’d never met them. He needs to be able to make harsh decisions and let people know who is in charge. I got 10 downward thumbs for that post, I look forward to more

I suppose we’ve had to revert to long balls forward now that we have a keeper who is not comfortable passing the ball on the deck. Sad.

Didn't look like a promotion chasing team today.

I was amazed we didn’t start making subs from the 60 minute mark, thought the game was crying out for something to freshen things up.

Still could have nicked it at the end though, feel like we need something like that to get a bit of momentum going again.

Simmons has to start on Tuesday, was very impressed with his cameo. Personally I’d like to see Kodua and Taylor in too.

He enjoys foraging forward from centre back when he plays there and on one occasion today he fired a perfect diagonal ball across to Fred on the left. He was often in and around the Crawley box in the first half - opposite end from where I assume you were sitting or standing - and he even turned up wide left and in the final third on one occasion.

I enjoy seeing one of our own youngsters developing so well and I probably am a bit over the top with my admiration. It’s poetic licence aimed at encouraging emerging talent to blossom.