We've got the balance totally wrong, ever since the first half of the Liverpool game, when we looked like our old selves.

We've taken the intensity out of our league games to try to spread out our workload over the different competitions we're in and lessoe the incidences of injuries which have previously plagued us.

And I get that but we've gone way too far the other way. And without it, the players look like they don't know what to do or where they should be on the pitch. The result is what we're seeing now. Yesyerday and West Ham were easily as bad as some of the worst performances under Bruce and McClaren and that is about as damning an indictment as there can be and not one I say lightly, either.

Eddie is still, for me, absolutely the right man to take us forward. He has 100% earned the right to fix the problems we have and anyone who thinks otherwise is being hugely unfair on him...and clearly hasn't been following us long enough.

Doesn;t mean he's above criticism, though. His loyalty to certain players could be his undoing and I genuinely can't fathom why he didn't take Dan Burn off after the yellow when every single person watching could see what was going to happen. Plus, Woltermade must be being told to drop deep and that patently wasn't working either.