Promotion? More like relegation

I'm starting to get a bit panicky now. We're still searching for our first win after four games, and if it goes on for much longer, automatic promotion will be out of the question.

We are more likely to be involved in a relegation scrap than a promotion battle, judging by our performances so far this season.
Indeed, next Saturday we could well find ourselves in the bottom four as our game against Oldham has been cancelled owing to international call-ups. Even if it was going to go ahead, we'd probably still end up losing it anyway, given our recent record against them.

I don't understand how the same eleven players who played so well against Leicester can then play so poorly against Bristol Rovers.
The defence was an absolute shambles. Only Kelvin Wilson did himself any justice. The other three, Julian Bennett, Wes Morgan, and Luke Chambers were all dreadful. Chambers kept giving the ball away in dangerous positions, and was also responsible for the penalty, and Morgan was just, well, his usual self, totally clumsy whenever he was in possession of the ball. Opposition strikers must be delighted when they see he is playing.

It wasn't just the defence, though, that was rubbish. It was the whole team. The midfield was disjointed and scrappy. Kris Commons, surprise surprise, did nothing all day, and was substituted yet again. Sammy Clingan and Neil Lennon weren't too bad, but their efforts went to waste as they were surrounded by poor-quality players.

We weren't helped by the referee's antics, mind you. He should never have booked Grant Holt for kicking the ball in the net after he had blown offside. The second incident which led to his dismissal looked petty, but maybe Holt had been winding up the referee, and he just snapped. Who knows. Holt does seem to have a bit of a temperament problem.

In the end, it was a point gained, but at the start of the day we were looking to get all three, and we might well have done if the defence had been on top of its game.

We don't have another League One game for a fortnight, so that will buy a bit of time for our injured players to get nearer match fitness. But there is no guarantee that when we do have them available, that we will be a good team. In theory we have the best bunch of players in League One, but a team is more than the sum of its parts, and right now we have eleven individuals on the pitch, some of whom have undoubted talent, but they are not playing as a unit. Without a decent manager to mould them together, they may as well be on different planets.