Can’t comment on today’s game, as I luckily missed it, but I was very surprised to see Sam Austin start in a position he clearly can’t play. I like Sam, but he needs to be in the Crowley role higher up the pitch or wing back. Every good game JOB has is when he starts. He seems to struggle to get into the pace of the game when he comes on as sub. Odd choices today.

Since Matty Palmer’s injury, we’ve won two and lost three (I’ll ignore the cup games because LW does), but not had any games where we controlled things for 90 minutes. He is ***** to our way of playing, but without a like-for-like replacement, we haven’t come close to finding a solution. In the recent games I’ve seen, Bostock looks out of form and Gosling a gamble that hasn’t paid off, and we’ve lacked intensity across the pitch. We rely on Jodi Jones, Crowley, McGoldrick and Langstaff’s individual quality to win us games. When they’re off it, clearly we are going to struggle.

Not sure there are any quick fixes to this, even in January - but we have to find a way of controlling games again without Matty Palmer on the pitch, whether that’s tweaking the formation or bringing in better players (probably both).