First and foremost, it is the first game of the season so this result doesn't define what our season will be. We must learn from today however, it seems as though MT did at HT (assuming Morrison was taken off for tactical reasons, which seems right given the change of shape. Could of brought on McCart otherwise or played Peltier at C.

3 centre backs and wing backs doesn't suit us, for the reasons I mentioned in the match thread. Don't be too harsh on the wing backs (Bramall was poor however, granted). They were asked to do far too much. Fred looks immeasurably more comfortable playing further up the pitch, we must utilise that. Hopefully with the addition of Green we can get some balance on the left also. 4-3-3 is the way, IMO. Otherwise we will continue to be destroyed when we lose the ball and it is knocked down the wings whilst our wing backs are up the pitch. Losing a CB will help make us more defensively sound, as counter intuitive as that sounds.

Real time and replays made it difficult to see what happened with the first goal. Seems like they overloaded one side, we got dragged over and they exploited the gap. Good finish but the space of the 365 for the scorer. Second goal riled me no end. We didn't even compete for the initial header. Unforgivable. Communicate lads. We, with our size in the team, cannot lose those battles. And then we weren't awake to remotely compete for where the ball fell. Terrible goal. Absolutely terrible. The rest I can't be bothered with in terms of goals, meh. By the by.

Cafu red, marvellous. Tops off the afternoon. Looked really harsh but did he do the old 'scissor' action in the tackle? The one they want to clamp down on. Couldn't see conclusively, at this moment it looks a really poor decision.

Thinking forward and improving is all we can do now. Go to a flat 4, get players in positions where they can be dangerous and work damn hard for attacking reinforcements. We don't need Smith or Sharp. We need a capable striker with pace. JJ isn't that guy.