Jack Stacey

In terms of the game itself, did it feel like a new low or was it the same trend as the previous five defeats or maybe all defeats that you've seen this season? Is there a common theme?

I think the performances have regressed majorly if I'm honest probably the last three games in particular Swansea Southampton and obviously Portsmouth and two of those teams I think we'd expect to be towards the top end of the league but I think it's just the fragility of them I don't necessarily think it's the lack of effort but it definitely is a lack of quality obviously they've lost Motore they're without captain Kenny McLean at the moment and The only two players they had over the age of 25 on the pitch on Saturday was Daniel Grimshaw, who was standing in for number one, Vladan Kovacic and Jack Stacey.

So it's a very, very young group.

And I think we've seen as a result of that.

I mean, you said it there and you're right.

It's just Daniel Grimshaw and Jack Stacey who are kind of older than the age of 25.

So again, I don't want to make this an age point, but again, even in terms of kind of matches that they've played and experiences that they've had, there's very few that maybe have had an experience like this, barring those maybe who were around last season, which becomes problematic then.

Absolutely yeah not a good experience if I'm you know I'm thinking I'll just pick out you know like a Schwartau or whatever I mean he went through that and Wright as well and those type of players and it's yeah to be back here again so soon it is a challenge and you know maybe go forward to when Clement came in the building it was you know his first game at Birmingham was Shane Duffy wasn't it and it was Kenny McLean and and tried to get a few more experienced players.

Drew a decent save from the keeper.

But also, I think Odozie should get a whole lot of satisfaction, particularly from that goal, because obviously it's Jack Stacey who he's made look a complete mug.

And it was Stacey that booted him out of basically the rest of our promotion season three years ago.

So... you don't forget do you he'll have enjoyed that

They obviously still got Pele Matson.

You've got Cor- Cordoba, you've got McConville, you've got Jack Stacey.

So they're still vastly experienced.

A lot of them are still there from last season as well.

Um, and I think especially first half, we, we were more compact.

We still have the issue that Jack Stacey is, uh, and I assume he's been instructed to do this, is bombing on leaving massive no man's land behind him, and poor old McConville's gotta go and fill that space a lot of the time.

But I do think the front four were better in the press.

Thought Wright and Matson, uh, the gap between them were good as well.

And I, I was pretty pleased with how the first half went.

I don't think we deserved the lead necessarily, but I don't think, uh, we were, I don't think Swansea were a much better team in the first half.

Then second half, as soon as they equalize, and what a disastrous goal that is with once again Jack Stacey halfway up the pitch leaving massive spaces in behind.

Um, uh, the fragility was pretty alarming actually.

Um, and that's why I think we maybe missed our leader in Kenny McLean yesterday, who, who's unavailable for a few weeks through injury.

Um, but sort of barring him, I think Jack Stacey's the only player over the age of 30 within this group.

So we are quite a young sort of group.

Um, and that is a little bit problematic I think, you know.

We've just had three weeks off.

Most players haven't gone away.

The only thing that worries me about Leo Sienza is that Jack Stacey, there aren't many players who I don't like, having not known them at least, but I just think he's a horrible player, and he injures people every time it seems like I come up against him.

You know, Samardo's had a couple of run-ins with him.

Is it more a fact of, you know, you look at kind of the, the average age yesterday, and I know you spoke about this on, on the drive back.

Um, you know, and you look sort of through that squad and maybe barring Jack Stacey and Valen Kabakovic, they're, they're all pretty young, um, i- in that starting 11.

And you maybe contrast that to Swansea where they had the likes of Kabango who's got a lot of minutes in the Championship under his belt.

Jay Fulton's played a lot of football in the Championship.