We were lucky to go 1 up, good move (well played indeed Tommy Smith, good ball by Scannell) but we'd been asking for trouble all first half with the space we allowed on each wing. Robinson had no help at all first half.
Second half we did well - We addressed the issue down the left, we looked more in control until we sat deeper and deeper with 15 minutes to go, they'd lost all hope yet we decided to create a problem by sitting deep. Scannell was banned from going forwards and became a right back. Why not continue to play the game that's got you 2-0 up in the first place - its inviting trouble, yet he didn't address it, we just got deeper and deeper and deeper. Yes we didn't conceded until 88 minutes, but what happened after 88 minutes could have happened after 76.
Someone said we let the left back have too much space after 88 minutes - sorry but that had happened about 6/7 times before but we got away with winning the header or a poor cross.
Then we got even deeper - To have both Scannell and Wells back marking at 2-1 on a set piece was madness - were they ever going to win the header? No.
Would they have caused more problems attacking the second ball on half way - even if just to slow down the second phase of Rotherham possession? Yes
By bringing everyone back we invited Rotherham onto us and guess what we lost the second ball - we had nobody to compete with it and got sucked in. Yes it was deflected but we caused that problem ourselves by sitting so deep.
The negativity cost us. What do we do at 2-2, become even more negative and bring another defender on and go 631?! I'm sure he'll suggest it was 433 somewhere, but it was 631 and kick it and hope Wells can beat 6 men on his own (a bit like what Holt was supposed to do last week).
Ever decision negative, every decision backwards,
And don't get me started on Grant Holt's injury - he's off the field with what looked like a serious injury. What does Hope-Less Powell do. Nothing. We play with 10 men for 2 minutes whilst he has treatment, they should have scored at the back stick. Then we decide to warm a few players up. Holt stumbles around for 2 minutes, our subs sit back down and Holt continues to be a passenger for 2 more minutes before he does the inevitable and goes down the tunnel. We still don't have a sub ready - it was so dreadful it was almost laughable. Are we a professional football team or the Dog and Duck?
I may as well continue - the manager is giving his team talk, 5-10 mins to kick off and we have 4 of our subs - dumb and dumber, Lolley and Allinson out kicking it as high as they can on the pitch. Why aren't they in the dressing room listening to the last words of instruction?
Utterly useless.
Powell's making Robins look like Mourinho at the minute, 5 wins in 17 games is relegation form.
Furious doesn't cover it - Do I trust this man to get it right? Not at all. He's signed or sanctioned the signings of 4 players so far - hardly the case he's had no input on players in.
Yes I'm annoyed.