Carlisle United fans gave us their reaction on X after the humiliating 5-1 defeat to Swindon Town - here is a selection of their comments.
Where do you go from here. It's HIS team. HIS players. The Piatak's have spent serious money on this squad. They have backed him. Yet, NOTHING changes. Faffing around passing nowhere persists. Chances on goal are minimal. The opposition, depleted, is rampant. Relegation awaits. (@BruceVander)
It was a disgraceful performance and it’s very difficult seeing how this system gets us clear of the awful situation that we are in, change is desperately needed. (@MarkWard18)
In the interview MW is shocked & cannot understand the thrashing. It's all down to individual errors for MW. This is the most worrying aspect. He just doesn't see it. It's because of the way he is setting the team up & asking them to play. He can't see it. It's a fatal blindspot. (@BackoSkiddaw)
Why do we put our energy into this? What's the point? Above all else what I want is something to believe in, performances that make me proud. What we get is so far from that it boils the blood. I'll see more quality at my son's U10 game tomorrow morning. (@AndyGri45559875)
Didn’t take our chances when on top and then concede 2 stupid goals from a long kick downfield. Jones adds to the chaos with a second yellow and hope vanishes. Credit for chasing the game and to Hugill for his goal but the rest was dreadful. Why did I buy a Newport ticket? (@tim_martland)
It felt like the Cambridge home game a year ago, the more things change, the more they stay the same. (@icantstartnow)
It started out so positively, we were on top and looking confident & comfortable, but spurned chances & paid accordingly. Hugill a really bright spark & a great finish, but it went downhill rapidly. Never seen a stadium empty out so early. The anger was justified. (@Rich_W27)
1st 20 minutes were brilliant, looked like we'd win 5-1. We went behind and as usual, the tactic didn't get us back in it. Playing out from the back works when you're winning and MW only has that tactic. There's some very good players there being held back by a failed strategy. (@DavidJav9954)
See Crawley 22/23 season… Stats based recruitment, fancy new-thinking possession football, fortunes spent, abject failure only rescued by changing manager, going back to basics and putting a run of results together. (@MarkWhitfield2)
MW has to go, inherited a team, made it worse unable to coach them to be better players, refused to adapt to a style of play that suited them and would get results. Got his own players in and got battered at home. I can’t see us surviving under MW. Other managers have had to come in mid season and work with what they have not but a whole new squad and they have got them up the table. Look at Holloway and Simpson when he returned to arguably one of the poorest squads we’d had. He doesn’t seem to understand the lone striker needs support. The tactics he is employing are leading to the mistakes. This obsession with playing out from the back simply isn’t working and putting the players under pressure. Get a player alongside Hugill and give it a go. MW won’t change and neither will the result or our survival chances (@andrewhoddie)
Am I missing something? Isn’t there one common root cause here straddling both the latter Simmo and current MW eras? Who has led recruitment throughout? A function obviously totally unfit for purpose. (@NotInSeddon)
Rank after 15 mins. Same old. Fleetwood was paper over the cracks. It has to be the end for MW. For all the good done, the Piataks have a lot to answer for footy wise. Clowns behind the scenes still in a job with the club letting its fans down yet again. It’s all we know. (@adWhitfield94)
Disgraceful! Players stealing a living! A manager has to use whatever assets they have to the best of their abilities, he’s spent half of the season “forcing” his style on players unable to play the way he wants! Now he has is players, and that’s what we get! (@BrianHazlewood2)
With a squad with that much talent , even an average league 2 manager could get results. We are paying players a fortune for nailed on relegation with MW in charge. (@jonnyraffles78)
Embarrassing! This must be the final straw. The club has become a laughing stock under the new owners. They wanted ‘fun football’ - the only fun is being enjoyed by the opposition! (@MikeTurney7)
Groundhog day all over again, with the added twist of a dumb sending off. Bright spot was Hugill getting off the mark. MW probably isn't going anywhere, so we need our strikers to rescue us. His plan A would work ok if we were scoring regularly. (@MikeEwins)
The club are becoming unsupportable and detestable under this regime. It’s a plaything for arrogant owners spouting platitudes, terrible coaching appointments, weak spineless & players who look like they couldn’t care less on crazy money. Absolutely raging at what we’ve become (@PeteMcCormick6)
MW in his pre match bigs up Swindon as ''very very well organised outfit", boils your **** that he does not come close to doing this for his own team. As an aside the type of striker that might just have got us outta this mess signs for Morecambe & scores 2. (@Andythehood)
Holloway worked our one dimensional tactics out after 15 minutes then it was game over. Our head coach is out of his depth and our owners continue to disrespect our supporters by ignoring their views. The problem is the Piataks, well intentioned but utterly clueless. (@Piglet_Phoenix)
Quite aside from harping on any tactical stuff, it’s actually just incredibly sad watching the hope and optimism of this era dwindle to nothing (@thervd)
I never thought things could be as bad as they were under the last owners but I was wrong. These useless rich owners with no idea of what they have bought continue to make absolutely ridiculous decisions and will soon be owning a non league club, then what? Pathetic today. (@Mullen103)
We had chances early in the game, which we had to take. Then, a familiar story. (@midlandscufc)
The time for "a football philosophy" is not now. We are in it up to our necks. (@LindaNi121202)
Worst performance of the season, I seriously can't see us staying up unfortunately (@motehill1)
There is one change missing which is needed.... (@In5ertHandle)
Bringing in eleven new players rarely works, to short a time to mould them. The game plan is all wrong & we cannot score goals. MW must hold his hand up & admit its a disaster, the choice is stay with him or get a temporary manager until the season finishes & see after that. (@Dougmacd9826)
Joe Hugill scored. Pumped for him. That was nice. Nothing else was. (@JHallHDI)
Terrible. And, the manager must be gone out of our club tonight. (@carlisl9125)
Owned by Holloway. (@GlacialGlory)
