Abject, lacking creativity, unimaginative, dumb, weak, passionless and crap.


Our performance at the weekend against a side not many places above the relegation zone was all the above to different degrees, and more.
KB brought Robbie Blake back in to replace David Healy but that was the only change to the starting 11 from the previous weeks offering against Stoke.


In truth Hull should have beaten us by 2 or 3 clear goals and would have done if it had not been for Sully and an incorrectly disallowed Hull goal. From the first whistle to the last they were quicker into the tackle and we never got going in that respect so by half time all we had to show for our lack of effort was an Eddie Lewis free kick, well saved by Myhill and a Robbie Blake miss from 6 yards out.


In the second half we created even less with just a Liam Miller miss in the 68th minute until we put on a bit of pressure in the last 15 minutes after Hull had taken the lead, even then we were not exactly pummeling them.


KB reckons it is not happening in the last third of the pitch, well I can tell him that it is not happening in the middle or first thirds either. I lost count of the number of long balls that went sailing over Rob Hulse’s head and out of play, Hulse had no service or back up, when he did receive the ball to feet it was generally 40 yards out with his back to goal.


Yes the midfield were poor but the man who is really not up to it is Stephen Crainey, the word abject is an accurate description of his nervy, laboured, panicky, thoughtless performance.


As for KB he was totally out-thought by Peter Taylor.

Why do we persist in trying to put crosses in to a lone striker marked by two 6’ 4” defenders?
Why do we not change formation occasionally?

It is because Kevin Blackwell is unfortunately a one trick pony with little tactical awareness.
Ken Bates will rue the day that he gave him his 3 year contract, we have not won a game since and the levels of performance are now no better than they were 12 months ago.


I am not advocating we sack KB. That would be stupid at this time, what we need is a plan B, and fast, to enable us to get some momentum going - teams have sussed us out.


We have 5 games left to experiment, we could do worse than drop Lewis back to left back and switch our wing threat to Griffiths on the right and get Lewis overlapping. Fraser Richardson should get a few games on the right, if only to give Gary Kelly a rest, lets give Bakke(if fit) and Derry a few games together holding the midfield and have 2 strikers playing up front together playing off each other - now there’s an idea!


We can still get to the premiership via the play offs but only if we can find an alternative to our now all too predictable 4-3-3 formation. Almost 5 games without a goal from open play says it all.