Tonight was a mixture of players playing poorly and bad management

Let's start with the players.

Moore - solid enough when it's in the air or when he's tight on the defender, but whenever he heads or kicks the ball he has no clue where it's going, apart from as far away from the goal as possible, and whenever he has to try and beat someone for pace it's cringeworthy.

Souza - well, where do you start. He's been getting away with it a bit for a while now. He's a weak link at the back and gets caught out for position too often. He committed himself too easily to let the cross come over that led to the goal (but defenders committing themselves too easily has been a theme this season).

Colace - as at Blackpool he did some of the simple things well, which is what Hassell and Leon in that position failed to do, but his passing was Tinkler-esque at times. His dead balls never beat the first man, a la Devaney.

Howard - first half shocking, second half slightly better. It sounds cliched, because it has been mentioned on here a lot, but his heart doesn't seem in it, either as a player or as a captain.

The wingers - they offered no protection to the full backs, particularly in the first half. Hume, once again, looked knackered, whilst JCR spent a lot of time watching the game. They picked up second half, but I lost count of the amount of times they stood watching the full backs under pressure in the first.

Macken - very poor today. I was amazed he stayed on, particularly after he picked up the booking. He ran out of ideas early on and never got into the game.

Odejayi - For me, the best reds player today. He put himself about a lot and took a lot of hammer from their defenders. There seems to be an unwritten rule that fouls on him don't count. He could have won a penalty with an obvious shove in the back, but the referee chose not to see it.

He had that one episode though, where he ran the full length of the pitch to get the ball and then ran out of steam and couldn't join in the attack, before kicking thin air when the ball came to him. That will certainly please the neanderthal racist behind me, who was on his back all match. But apart from that he looked our best attacking option.

And on to the manager

I've been pro-Davey, but this season he is pushing me to the limits. He's been perservering with Souza and Moore, pushing Foster to right back, when Souza has not been performing well. Why not put Foster alongside Moore and play Hassell, Kosluk or Van Homeot at full back?

He stuck with Hassell in central midfield for far too long, when it was clear he was out of his depth there. It's a very good way to take the confidence out of a decent squad player, by making him the scapegoat every week.

He failed to see that Hume was going to get sent off against Coventry, when all the ground could see it coming.

And tonight he surpassed himself. Our most likely goal threat out on the left wing, which not only reduced our chances of scoring, but also put pressure on our full back, because Hume clearly hasn't the stamina (for whatever reason) at the moment to do the tracking back.

Then when Hume started getting into the game in the second half, he takes him off. Despite the fact that our attacking option (once again) was the big hoof to Odejayi. It was actually working quite well for periods of the game, as Odejayi was getting his head on the ball, but Macken is not the partner to capitalise on that, Hume is! So why didn't he take Macken off and shove Hume up front?

Most unforgivably though, he decided to play the last few minutes with Foster up front rather than putting Mostto on. We quite clearly were getting nowhere and yet only one substitution. In fact, worse than that, we had a few players who weren't playing well sitting on yellow cards too. He obviously saw something out there that we didn't.

At half time he surely realised that his job was on the line and that the players were not performing. I would have expected to see some big changes in the second half. We did improve on the first, but that wasn't difficult.

I'm not a fan of chopping and changing managers, particularly ones that have a contract that needs paying up, but to be honest, I am not expecting davey to still be here when I come back from my holiday in a fortnight. And that's a shame, because I think we have one of the most talented squads we've ever had.