Agree completely. When we were playing from back last night, no midfielders were dropping short to take balls from defenders (until McKay came on and played that role). In fact none of them even ran into a space as they were all shit scared to make a mistake in case they would cop the crowd's rage.
The long ball should have been used last night as the team were poor at moving ball with any purpose. However when you play the long ball the desire to win the second ball needs to be there, and last night they didn't look up for any sort of scrap which is worrying.