WHERE is it all going wrong?

Like you, I’ve spent hours trying to pick it apart but all too soon my hands leave the keyboard to hold my weary head.

So forgive the lack of structure – think of this column like a Town performance - I’ve got some bits and I’m hoping it all comes together.

With 29 bodies used so far, injuries are the only place to start.

Combined with international call-ups, they’ve denied Mark Cooper 11 players.

While strains, such as Wes Thomas’s hamstring, hint at a lack of preparation among the deadline day additions, many others have been the result of bad luck or heavy tackles, such as Kevin Stewart and Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill's injuries.

However, injuries highlight how patchy the squad is: kids at full-back and too few wide or attacking midfielders. Instead, the team is overloaded with forwards and centre mids, most of whom are inferior to Yaser Kasim, who is being played in a position which demands running, something he is ill-equipped or ill-prepared to do.

This erratic buying and selling has created ‘square pegs’ whose insertion has frustrated so many.

Take the case of Jordan Turnbull playing at left-back rather than James Brophy.

As a centre-back out of position, Turnbull limited Town’s attacks but is it worse to have to pick a kid whose previous experience was five levels below even the very bum end of the Football League? Then against Blackpool, it was Brophy who didn’t attack the near-post corner and they scored.

Then there are the fans. Many seem fractious, tired of so much change and so little communication.

And Mark Cooper, as the public face of the club and the man who has to give all the bad news, has become the lightning rod.

But when roles are shared, shouldn’t responsibility be also?

Clearly we need, and deserve, more information about who did, or who does what.

After Tuesday, it is easy to find comfort in knee-jerk demands and cliché but there needs to be balance and a bit of responsibility in our arguments – particularly since we expect both from the team.