Again, the days of disconnecting and pointing at the runway are gone. At the very least you have to call for the appropriate mode so that you have flight director guidance.
What stops you turning off the flight director and auto-thrust? Whatever happened to a bit of "old' power plus attitude? Oh that's right – nobody knows what an attitude is any more: they just chase a flight director.
If you can't quote some basic attitudes and approximate power for, a lap of the circuit, cruise, descent, base-turn and final, you do not belong in the flightdeck of a jet.