This squad has underperformed for two or three seasons now under several different managers with very different approaches.

Carlos was the most successful recently because he preached a very tight defence but we scored very few under him and we were already stagnating by the time he left. And do you think he would have decided to leave if he had felt he could achieve something with this group of players. Why go to a bottom placed team in Spain when you have a legitimate contender for promotion to the Premier League? I don?t buy this ?he wanted to go home? nonsense. Managers are by nature ambitious and sentiment rarely enters into decisions

I suspect that there is a serious problem in the dressing room because we have some very talented players and one of the best and deepest squads in the league but they never seem to deliver and the players rarely seem to play with any enjoyment or passion. They look either irritated or upset most of the time. The number of petulant, needless red cards we have received lately also suggests an attitude problem in the dressing room.

I doubt there is anything any manager can do with this bunch so it does need a clean out.

I also suspect that Mowbray?s team and substitute decisions are made more out of desperation than anything to see if something, anything, will work. We all have our ideas of who should and shouldn?t play but I actually thought the starting line up on Friday was a solid choice and yet we got nothing from them at all. He then brought on Swift who is supposed to be a skillful, experienced player who promptly made a non-league error and we were 2-0 down. Even then the game was not out of reach but was over a few minutes later once Styles saw fit to rugby tackle a player on the sideline near the half way line when already on a yellow card. Two moments of absolute stupidity and the game was over. In a game we needed to win, the lack of passion, common sense and urgency was palpable.

So I am not blaming Mowbray at all. He is likely even more frustrated than we are. We need to give him a chance to clean house and build the team he wants, not the players he inherited and quickly found out too many of whom do not give a damn.