Yet another dispiriting afternoon in what is now feeling like the never ending season.
I was uneasy about our prospects all week and right from the kick-off it became painfully obvious it was going to be another horror show from us.
Above all our usual failings, which we have witnessed every week so far this year, there seemed to me to be a complete lack of self-belief in their chances of coming away with a win. It was almost as if they expected to lose, which is staggering when playing a team without a win and fighting against the tide every week.
I wonder if the cumulative effect of this horror season has knocked out what little confidence they had to begin with and they are now resigned to defeat even before they step out onto the field. Their body language throughout was diabolical with not an ounce of self-belief visible.
They look like a group of people who desperately wished they could be somewhere else, including Myler. Nearly all of them seemed to be hiding, hoping that someone else would do something, anything, to rescue them. When you have 17 players all largely displaying that attitude there is only going to be one result, and so it proved. There wasn't an ounce of leadership out there yesterday.
It's difficult to see where a win will come from next. Even the remaining games against Cas and London look fraught with difficulty, while every other team will be licking their lips at the chance to fill their boots when we roll into town! We all know we are in an almighty hole of our own making, but that hole became deeper and steeper with that abject performance yesterday.
Have no idea where we go to or who we turn to next. I would normally expect a reaction in the next game to atone what we witnessed, but we all know that is unlikely to happen, they don't have it in them. There is over four months of this season left to play and all I can see ahead is a series of endless defeats. We don't look capable of beating anyone right now.
This is now, unquestionably, the worst state the club has been in 50 years. Dark days with even darker ones still to come I fear.
