All gone quiet.....

[Tom Joad 25]

I'm not sure what anyone expected today. If these young fellas can liven up our midfield it can only help.

What bothers me more is something we were never going to fix in this window - the absolute lack of quality, discipline and spirit in our defence. Signing Phillips and Mepham should have settled us down for a couple of seasons at least. Their lack of competence and professionalism was a huge part of Mason's problem. Now they can't or won't work in Ramsay's system.

If Eric keeps picking Taylor because he believes he needs a left-footer there, then we are in deep shit, no matter how many goals we score.

This exactly. Phillips and Mepham should be up to the job. If they aren't I would've liked to see a midfield leader signed to play just in front of them. Taylor,  I've given up on. If we insist on this surrendering possession tactic I'd suggest we are only a matter of time. each game before we're picking the ball out of our net. To play Ramsays preferred system he needs players he can rely on, he needs to convert our current cbs into being just that, or he needs to adapt the system to what we do have for now.