Proctor yet again missed an absolute sitter in the 9th minute. If he carries on like that he's not going to win many friends. Ajayi's header should also have gone in - no excuses whatsoever for missing chances like that & at pivotal moments in the game.

Proctor's injury - didn't really see anything wrong, initially, hope he hasn't landed funny and done something nasty to his knee. Terrible of us to switch off and allow a goal like that straight after though, and that's after the horrible goal from the corner.

I though Kettle handled the game pretty well, people need to let it go with him

Warney has a lot of work to do at both ends of the pitch this week!

Missed chances cost us the game. There were quite a few.

Both could be true i.e that missed chances cost us and that Warne hasn't got a clue. Just saying.

It is still way too early to be doom and gloom. I believe that at this stage last season SUFC were without a win and there were people calling in to Praise and Grumble wanting Wilder out (how fickle football fans are).

Having said that there were some worrying signs today.

We ran out of ideas quite early on.

Why have we brought in an experienced right back as cover for Emmanuel, who then sits on the bench watching the hapless Vaulks (who has played about three games there in his life) go on in that position ahead of him?

Proctor seems not to be able to convert chances from inside the six yard area. That is a shame because his contribution otherwise is really good. He is clearly our main man up front and it will be a blow if (as looks likely according to early reports) he is out for a while injured.

Frecklington just doesn't look the player he was, and him and Potter together isn't going to work. Vaulks won't improve us in that area. We are crying out for a box to box midfielder in the mould of the Frecks from four years ago who you knew would get you ten goals a season. Does he look like doing that now? I can't see it. Which I don't enjoy saying because he has been my favourite player of the NYS years.

Once again and sadly Ajayi was found wanting and it resulted in a goal. For the size he is he loses a lot of headers. He has his qualities and I am not advocating binning him off, but we need another option. The last thing we need at the moment is another inexperienced defender. Neither Wood nor Do Ball are the answer. We need someone who isn't past it but who has some miles under the bonnet and who will head it and kick it and shout a lot. A Chris Swailes or Craig Morgan type. I hope the defender we are apparently lining up fits that bill.

I thought a lot of heads went down today and there were players having pops at each other towards the end, and it all looked eerily familiar.

-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 26th of August 2017 08:05:58 PM

ditto derbymiller, if you look at the actual win percentage of all our previous managers, Warne must be either at or very near the bottom. He was the cheap & easy option, everybody loves him etc, etc. The guy is utterly clueless, his substitutions are baffling in the extreme, tactically inept (lump it up to Moore/Proctor & see what happens). We'll befacing our FOURTH successive relegation fight if we're not careful.

'All the signs are that we might be in a lot of trouble'. That's an understatement.

Perhaps we can't afford the said manager?

Too many things don't add up when it comes to rhetoric and budgets. I think we're skint end of

Time for a reality check and a few home truths. I stated on here previously that I didn't want Paul Warne to be given the managers job. Why?Nice Guy but tactically inept, I take no pleasure in being proved right. Evidence Saturday's game plan or lack of it ,no plan B when plan A is patently not working. Solution ?
The reality is that Warne is our manager like it or not and that is not about to change any time soon. One can only hope that his on the job training pays dividends eventually. Should he be given time to improve things?
The answer has to be yes, what's the alternative?, even more instability for our Club.
Now the reality check for the fans. The ones amongst you who thought this division would be easy for the Miller's have had a rude awakening and that's no bad thing. Maybe now the expectations of Miller's fans will become a little more realistic. Would a mid table finish be really that bad after last season's horror show?
The club is in transition whether we like it or not, we have a Chairman prone to making rash statements which is not helpful to anyone least of all the fans and a rookie manager who has a lot to learn.
We are only just into the season, there are a lot of games still to be played. The early signs are not good but are not bad enough to throw us into a mad panic with calls for the managers head. We have to hope that Warne learns from his mistakes and eventually settles in to his role of manager. Transfer business is going to be vital in the next couple of days particularly taking into account Proctors injury and the need to strengthen the defence and central midfield. Mr Stewart's boast about a top four budget has to become reality and not just rhetoric. What we do in this transfer window could well define our Season. Top half to mid-table or bottom half
strugglers. The balls in your court Tony you gave him the job now give him the necessary tools to have at least a fighting chance of doing the job.

Of course towd codger is correct in much of what he says, but do we have the time to allow Warne(s) to cut his managerial teeth at the clubs/fans expense ? And the big question for me is WILL he learn from his mistakes ? Thus far I'm not convinced he will ,after all he seems to be making the same mistakes. time after time. i.e. as mentioned in towd codgers post, no plan B when plan A clearly isn't working. Making wrong substitutions or at the wrong time, and players switching off after a break in play and being punished for it and then the heads going down. It makes no difference if we're playing well or not…..a loss is a loss

All reminiscent of last season. If he was going to lean lessons it would have been last season when he did the learning I would have thought. A bit like JCH, if he was going to do anything worth paying to see, he should have done it by now

Baffling that Vaulks went on unless it was just for his long throws which I suppose is possible because by then we had run out of better ideas. That little cameo from Vaulks was dreadful. Twice he swung and missed the ball completely with his left foot, a couple of times he crossed it from good positions into the stand and several times he gave it away needlessly. He played like someone they had dragged out of the crowd. I felt sorry for him in and would have subbed the sub to save him further embarrassment if we had any left to use. If he is actually preferred to ***mings as a right back, how bad must ***mings be and why have we signed him?

Likewise how can someone worth paying £300K for be worse than Joe Mattock? Maybe it is just his demeanour but he looks like he just isn't bothered. I actually half wanted Kettle to send Mattock off for that shocking tackle so he would be forced to miss a game or two and we could at least see Purrington in a real League One game.

We have the same weaknesses this season as we had last which is a real worry.