Champs - what Saxo is saying is that we are baffled by your reaction. There is no-one here like some of the t*ssers on the Telegraph site or (according to Saxo) the BRFC forum, which I don't read.
Those people have been anti-Mowbray from the start, for no clear reason, and a few of them genuinely do seem to sit and wait for a poor performance, so that they can pounce.
That is not what happened here. Robin and I both said we played badly in this game. That is indisputable. Telegraph posters are blaming the line-up. To me, it was not that complicated. Instead, each one of our back four had a poor match at the same time - although Nyambe looked good going forward.
I can't see what you wanted us to say. That we were unlucky?
To go back to personnel, I stick with what I said: Palmer seems to have been given more chances than the other newcomers, while appearing to be the least effective of them! That is uncharacteristic of Mowbray.
The other thing we learned is that an 80%-fit Graham is better than no Graham. He has looked a bit jaded recently, but he offers something that Dack, Armstrong and Palmer lack the physicality for.
Armstrong is a dilemma. He doesn't seem to have many "OK" games. He either looks excellent or disappears!
Dack is being very closely marked, and has slightly lost his edge, but he still carves out chances.
Our problems here were based almost entirely on defensive errors, which made this game untypical. Our more common failing has been that we haven't put teams away, when dominating them. Rotherham was a classic example.
Bottom line, this is football. It's unpredictable. TM thought that pace might be the best option against PNE. Unfortunately, everything came undone because of errors at the back.
If Brereton is going to be used as a "wide attacker", we still need the target-man in January. I'm beginning to conclude that Nuttall will be released, as TM clearly thinks he isn't good enough to step up. That seems a bit harsh in terms of what fans have witnessed, but we don't see training.
All in all, we just have to hope this was a one-off. I imagine the players are desperate to make up for this performance. The Wigan game will tell us a lot.