COLCHESTER United were beaten 1-0 at home by Stockport County in Ben Garner's first game in charge, on Saturday afternoon.

A first-half header from Kyle Wootton settled the contest at the JobServe Community Stadium, condemning the U's to a fourth successive defeat.

Colchester fans have their say on a disappointing afternoon for their team.

Jamie Hudson

Awful performance. No game plan once they started pressing us. They bullied us all over the pitch. Only player who comes out that game with any credit is Kelleher

Paul Chisnall

Strange line-up Chilvers deep didn't work. Good 1st 10mins, but after that very poor. So many said we had a great window, but forwards all too similar and no pace out wide or up top. We are so reliant on Junior. Shocking performance!

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Michael Webb

This run of games is pretty tough. All the tops sides back to back. It’s not looking any easier any time soon so we need to figure it out quick Tom Awful awful awful! Hopefully Garner can get his ideas across soon and get us playing better attacking football! But not the best start!

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O’Hara has no authority in his own box, flaps at crosses, if he even bothers to come! New keeper a must for next season. Where was Chilvers playing? Because I’m not sure he knew, needs to be further forward. No one near Hopper when ball played forward so what’s the point

Adam

Dreadful. Hope Garner ripped into them lot. Chilvers needs to be dropped, shouldn't be rewarded for failure

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Antony Wiggett

Really poor team effort. I'd like to see O'Hara dropped to see if Tom Smith can command his penalty area. Always slow at getting the ball out from the back. Jay was non existent and Wood could only pass to the opposition. Hopefully Garner sorts things out through this week.

Georgina Davies

Total rubbish, chilvers and wood giving the ball away, Ben garner said he was an attacking manager well we didn't see it, making changes too late. No goals in the last 4 games says it all

David Clayton

Worrying. Players seemed unsure of when to play &. when to be direct. Things aren’t going to turn around overnight, but we don’t have the luxury of time. Do we have the players to play that way? Missed Read in the middle. Tough games coming up and looking over our shoulder now.

Alan Wiffen

Reminder me the early days of the season can't pass the ball and give it away to cheaply and now have the pleasure of not defending corners properly

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Mr B

Outthought and out fought. Not quick enough out from the back especially o’Hara. Need some creativity from midfield we are creating nothing.

Sean Kelly

O’Hara is awful on corners,once again at fault but Chilvers and Woods were very poor today,Ben Garner needs to give a few a reality check because we are still in trouble

Danny Binks

Playing top sides shouldn’t stop you passing 5 yards to your own player. Our final ball is awful. We just really lack quality at times. The keeper does let us down at times but our marking at set pieces doesn’t help. Wood & Chilvers were so poor but a few others not a lot better.

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Steve Lowe

Shocking no goal in 5 now . It’s ok it’s only top of the table Orient next week

xdiamondgeezer7

Disappointed very poor performance seen better at non league big promises from manager brave going forward possession football got nothing like that manager players need to do better or leave

Code-Zero

Never looked the same since Akinde hasn’t featured. Still not convinced Hopper was a good move. We are right back in the relegation mix.

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Claude Mac

Horrendous performance. Wood and Chilvers constantly gave the ball away. Passing out from the back didn't work because we had no midfielders capable of bringing the ball forward and then we tried lumping it to Hopper who had no support.

Luke Fordham

No comment

Tony C

Poor today, second to everything, Garner wasn’t happy seeing reactions today and you could clearly see why, need to start to create more as today was awful to watch. Garner wants to play football differently to what we been playing and this will take time, as didn’t work today.

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Michael O'Brien

A is for abject.

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Bad

Homebrew Rich (Bottles Galore)

Not scoring goals. We've been the better footballing side the last few games, just need someone to get a run of goals.

Si Collinson

Can’t buy a goal at the moment, so why play a lone striker? Very strange call. Need to sort this asap or all else will count for nothing.

Andy Totham

Not one player was more than 5 out of 10. No shots on target again. Woeful.