I don't think we should be so affected by our dislike of our manager to genuinely believe that he told them to sit back in the second half yesterday, he didn't, but Blackburn came out of the blocks quickly and the players panicked. We desperately need some leadership, the gaps that developed between Gabby and the rest of the team were never going to sustain a lead for a whole half. It's difficult to judge the first half performance because Blackburn didn't put a tackle in but again there were promising signs in the link up play between Ireland and N'Zogbia. Albrighton, regrettably, has definitely gone backwards though. As a slight winger he needs to have a turn of pace to compensate and he doesn't. Impressed by Herd though, he was never heralded as much of some of our other youngsters but could well have emerged to be the best of the lot.
