“This team made the playoffs last season”

In all seriousness there is one key change and that’s the manager. In any case
Collins Helik Sibbick Palmer Styles Brittain Woodrow Frieser were all regular starters I make that 8. Victor also featured quite a bit

The squad we have is good enough for mid table and ought to be capable of scoring a goal every now and then
The fact is they haven’t a clue how they should be playing and it shows
We look clueless going forwards and never really look like scoring whilst at the back we don’t look as solid.
Ishmael or Struber would have this group playing a lot better than Schopp is

The real worry is I don’t see him turning it around

 

To be fair to the comment you’re responding to, he did say starting line up. Sibbick and Frieser came off the bench so you’re down to the six he mentioned.

Disagree that the players didn’t know what they were doing today. Thought we looked far more compact and sturdy than we have for a while. We kept our shape as a flat back five to avoid the cross channel balls in behind, and it worked. We were though woefully short in central midfield as Palmer and Styles looked like lost schoolboys as a pair, and our movement in terms of midfielders getting forward is close to shambolic.

Easy to point at one player but Mowatt would make such a difference in this team. Not just his ability but his experience. I think that’s where most of our problems are coming from. That and our final ball being so bad over and over and over.

Makes Brittain’s post match comments all the more relevant. But at the same time he does need to think about he can improve too because he’s squandering some of our most promising positions.

 

But Sibbick and Frieser aren’t playing by choice of the manager they are available I think the fundamental problem is the head coach to excuse it by saying we lost a couple of players doesn’t stack up for me
We were on the back foot for the last 70 minutes and I could only see one team scoring and eventually they did. But we just look so poor going forwards the players available aren’t that bad

 

I wouldn’t say we were on the back foot for a whole 70 minutes. The game ebbed and flowed a lot and we weren’t a team under constant pressure or defending our box. I thought, and this is pretty consistent with Radio Sheffield, that we shaded the first half and started really positively. They shaded the second. But both teams had their moments - ultimately our moments not been as worthwhile as theirs.

The OP referenced starting XI which was my point. Thought Moon was perfectly fine today as we looked relatively solid defensively, but he sees far too much of the ball which lets him down. Flip of a coin vs. Sibbick for me, although leaning to the latter for pace alone. Mistakes were creeping in with Sibbick though prior to being dropped which people might be forgetting.

Much of a muchness on current form between Cole, Frieser and Oduor. I like Frieser being involved. Im a big fan. But he’s been poor for 3/4 games. Not sure that’s a change I’d argue as a fault of Schopp’s.

The criminal change was Moon in to midfield. It’s indefensible and to @Tyketical Masterstroke’s point, why bother even putting Gomes on the bench? I just feel like that’s a heads gone moment that nobody will ever understand.