Millwall v Albion

[Omegstrat6]

Double change with Iling Junior and Maja on for Wallace (who has not been too bad to be fair despite his lack of pace) and Price (poor again). Would also replace Collyer with Mowatt (didn't think I'd say that!)

[Bombers right foot]

If you watch the 3rd goal we play exactly 15 passes which gets us just over the half way line, then give it away, one pass puts their player in, pathetic

[baggieal]

Millwall fans must be singing - can we play you every week!

All those travelling fans should be refunded! Got out of jail card at Norwich and pathetic today!

PS - those West Brom commentators a couple of idiots - we are tired - conditions etc! So is Millwall the only windy place in the country and did no one else play in the week? Idiots!!!

[astle71]

What a load of crap this performance has been

[Omegstrat6]

0-3.We can moan all we like about Mason's starting IX, but the players too have to take accountability for their performance-lack of attacking intent, sloppy passing, not winning tackles etc. Mason cannot blame the small gap between games for this shocking performance as Millwall are in the same boat.

[Bombers right foot]

The players and Mason should be sat down in a room and this game shown in its entirety on the biggest screen possible.
This game was a perfect example of what is wrong, 20 odd passes backwards and forwards in our own half then giving it away, all these unnecessary passes in our own half giving the opposition chance to get back into shape makes it too difficult to create anything
We luckily got away with it at Norwich
Mason needs to wake up, this kind of possession based football rarely works in the Championship and it?s boring to watch

[Prando]

The players and Mason should be sat down in a room and this game shown in its entirety on the biggest screen possible.
This game was a perfect example of what is wrong, 20 odd passes backwards and forwards in our own half then giving it away, all these unnecessary passes in our own half giving the opposition chance to get back into shape makes it too difficult to create anything
We luckily got away with it at Norwich
Mason needs to wake up, this kind of possession based football rarely works in the Championship and it?s boring to watch

100% Bomber buddy.
It looks as though it is going to be a tiring season. Let’s hope Mason is open to changing this style?

[Leicesterbaggie]

What a miserable performance! I cannot remember the last time that we lost by three goals, probably in the Premiership. Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Let us be honest though, the performance against Norwich was not exactly exilerating although we got three points.

Masons selections have been extremely questionable but so has the performance of the players. He now has got a fortnight to sort things out which is desperately required. Very disappointed.

[Omegstrat6]

The only positive was Olly Bostock getting some game time in the dying minutes. Really quite shocking performance where we allowed Millwall too much room and time on the ball whilst creating nothing ourselves. Lack of energy, cohesion and attacking intent from far too many coupled with sloppy passing.

A few more games like this and we can certainly kiss any hopes of the play offs goodbye. Definetely one to put behind us (the lessons are blindingly obvious) and move on from.

Any faith I have in Mason will be further eroded if he tries to find excuses for this and hope he holds his hands up, says it was simply not good enough and apologies to the travelling fans. If he does this then it's a "bad day at the office" and we regroup and move on.

I'm sure players don't deliberately put in poor performances and they will likely be angry and frustrated at themselves for today but they now need to prove to fans that they can be better once another pointless international break is over.

[baggieal]

The only positive was Olly Bostock getting some game time in the dying minutes. Really quite shocking performance where we allowed Millwall too much room and time on the ball whilst creating nothing ourselves. Lack of energy, cohesion and attacking intent from far too many coupled with sloppy passing.

A few more games like this and we can certainly kiss any hopes of the play offs goodbye. Definetely one to put behind us (the lessons are blindingly obvious) and move on from.

Any faith I have in Mason will be further eroded if he tries to find excuses for this and hope he holds his hands up, says it was simply not good enough and apologies to the travelling fans. If he does this then it's a "bad day at the office" and we regroup and move on.

I'm sure players don't deliberately put in poor performances and they will likely be angry and frustrated at themselves for today but they now need to prove to fans that they can be better once another pointless international break is over.

Bostock is the future and said this for ages and Wallace is the past who will be gone at the end of the season. Mason should have brought Bostock on at 3-0 down when the game was lost!

Poor starting selection - too late with subs then a pathetic 2 minutes for Bostock when the game was lost at 3-0. We were poor at Norwich and got lucky and shocking today and got what we deserved!

Collyer did himself no favours!!!

[stargazer_1962]

Was out all day today but was alerted to a poor first half by attendees, then saw the score when it were 2-0 down. I thought we would start the same team (if all available) but surprised at the changes to the starting line up. Ok, 2 away games back to back but a 2 week international break so play the same team if possible and make changes once they tire. Ah well it's done now and hopefully we make amends against PNE and look and score more goals than just 1.

[Omegstrat6]

Bostock is the future and said this for ages and Wallace is the past who will be gone at the end of the season. Mason should have brought Bostock on at 3-0 down when the game was lost!

Poor starting selection - too late with subs then a pathetic 2 minutes for Bostock when the game was lost at 3-0. We were poor at Norwich and got lucky and shocking today and got what we deserved!

Collyer did himself no favours!!!

No, he didn't Al. Mind you, quite a few players off the mark today. Hopefully Taylor will be fit enough to return at LB after the international break and we can get back to a back 4 of Campbell, Phillips, Mepham and Taylor. I know Campbell is more naturally a CB and not so good pushing forward but he is pretty solid defensively.

Attack wise I would then start both Mikey and Iling Junior on the wings and play Maja and Heggabo together but it is our midfield that isn't functioning properly at the moment. Defensively, Molumby and Mowatt are not too bad but it's pace and creativity going forward that we lack. Price's performances have dropped off considerably recently and I've found Collyer quite underwhelming. That leaves Styles and Diakite and I would play one of them alongside either Molumby or Mowatt at the moment.

As for Ollie Bostock, I think he may get more opportunities as the season progresses as he could replace either Iling Junior or Mikey later on in games.

[baggieal]

No, he didn't Al. Mind you, quite a few players off the mark today. Hopefully Taylor will be fit enough to return at LB after the international break and we can get back to a back 4 of Campbell, Phillips, Mepham and Taylor. I know Campbell is more naturally a CB and not so good pushing forward but he is pretty solid defensively.

Attack wise I would then start both Mikey and Iling Junior on the wings and play Maja and Heggabo together but it is our midfield that isn't functioning properly at the moment. Defensively, Molumby and Mowatt are not too bad but it's pace and creativity going forward that we lack. Price's performances have dropped off considerably recently and I've found Collyer quite underwhelming. That leaves Styles and Diakite and I would play one of them alongside either Molumby or Mowatt at the moment.

As for Ollie Bostock, I think he may get more opportunities as the season progresses as he could replace either Iling Junior or Mikey later on in games.

Agree with all that but to be honest Styles or Diakite don?t excite me anymore than Collyer so far and have said for a long time Mowatt and Molumby lack pace and creativity. The main reason why Sunderland were promoted last year was because of Jude Bellingham and here lies the moral of the story along with a clinical scorer.

[bordering]

Mason's inexperience and more worrying his lack of attacking intent will get us at best mid table finish .

My main criticism is he lacks the courage to try to win.

He doesn't even try to change a game

He is not the answer - work in progress you say -maybe but a mid table finish is where we'll end up and it won't even be fun to watch

[stargazer_1962]

Seems we have the same predicament in our next set of 3 fixtures i.e. 3 matches in 8 days and 2 of them away back to back
with the latter a lunchtime kick off.
Hopefully we can get back to winning ways.

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