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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little 20:28 - Sep 23 with 9452 views

It does worry me a little we’ve conceded 9 goals from the home games so far

Without being a killjoy I do think this needs to be addressed sooner rather than later

Not sure if it’s a collective issue or individual

We can’t always score one more than the other team …..can we ?

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 22:56 - Sep 23 with 2615 views

BigCommon

I love the way we play at home. We may leave ourselves open at times. But sod being scared of The Championship and sitting low hoping to get something on the break or from a set piece... I would rather lose 4-3 and have a go, than sit back and get picked off 1-0, 2-0, by teams that just have better quality to unpick us...
Conceding the amount we are, is not ideal. But its a trade off imo. And teams are really going to have to bring their shooting boots, as Leeds did, if they are to beat us...
Today we were a post width away from being game over by half time.. Portman Rd has become a theatre of entertainment, win, lose or draw. Something we've craved for years...

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 23:41 - Sep 23 with 2537 views

BlueBadger

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 20:51 - Sep 23 by ArnieM
Our defence (defenders) aren’t good enough when the ball is in our box.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 00:20 - Sep 24 with 2511 views

mrshallisfit

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 20:57 - Sep 23 by homer_123
You're right. Can we bring back the Keane back four of 4 CBs please? Genuinely, what are you expecting? We are a Championship team, an excellent start to the season, scoring for fun, keeping clean sheets as well. What is it you want?

A lobotomy?

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 00:27 - Sep 24 with 2509 views

The_Flashing_Smile

It's because it was Blackburn (highest creators in the division) and Leeds' then £70m worth of strikers. Nothing more, nothing to worry about.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 00:35 - Sep 24 with 2504 views

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This is not a time to worry - just enjoy it, it’s special, lean into every part of it.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 07:31 - Sep 24 with 2387 views

Herbivore

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 00:35 - Sep 24 by SomethingBlue
This is not a time to worry - just enjoy it, it’s special, lean into every part of it.

Absolutely. And the thing is, McKenna and the staff will know where we can improve still and will be working hard to improve us in those areas. Most goals can be traced back to one or two small individual or team errors and we'll be working hard to try and address those, but when we're playing the way we are at home it's impossible to also completely shut up shop at the back. I actually think McKenna is correct that our biggest issue is the need to be a little more clinical at times. We could have killed off Saints and Wednesday more easily, we missed an excellent chance at 1-0 against Leeds, could have added a third several times at Sunderland. We take just a few more of these chances and we start winning games more comfortably than we have been. But this is quibbling really from a fan's point of view, this is the stuff the coaches will be working on but the fact we've been good enough to find ways to win in 7 of our 8 games is amazing, especially as we've had to manage a few injuries across the opening spell of the season.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 07:39 - Sep 24 with 2381 views

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 20:51 - Sep 23 by ArnieM
Our defence (defenders) aren’t good enough when the ball is in our box.

As I said, you posses zero ball knowledge. You utter embarrassment of a ‘fan’.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 07:50 - Sep 24 with 2348 views

ElephantintheRoom

Let me help you understand the complexities of football. If you score more goals than the opposition, you win

If a 1-0 is more your thing you could always try an away game

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 08:02 - Sep 24 with 2323 views

mikeybloo88

We’re playing like Keegan’s Newcastle from the mid 90s...as they were one of the best teams to watch I’ve ever seen in the PL I’ll happily go along with the current state of affairs. I’lll tell you honestly, I will love it when we get promotion, just love it...

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 08:10 - Sep 24 with 2304 views

Churchman

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 07:31 - Sep 24 by Herbivore

Agree with this. I’d add that at 3-1 before half time we had chances to make it 4. There’d have been no chance of coming back from that. But we got the job done and my goodness, what a great start to the season.

As you say, The coaching staff are inevitably looking at ways to improve us defensively but sometimes one has to give a little bit of credit to the opposition. Most teams at this level have decent players. Blackburn certainly do and like Cardiff they look pretty decent to me.

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 08:10 - Sep 24 with 2305 views

tractordownsouth

We definitely have dodgy moments at the back, particularly when opposition exploit the space between Clarke and Woolfenden. However, we've shown away from home that we can grind out results when we need to so it's less of a concern than it would otherwise be.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 08:11 - Sep 24 with 2304 views

DJR

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 00:27 - Sep 24 by The_Flashing_Smile
It's because it was Blackburn (highest creators in the division) and Leeds' then £70m worth of strikers. Nothing more, nothing to worry about.

Absolutely, and sometimes it has to be accepted that it is not bad defending but rather great attacking play, just as it was great attacking play which created all the chances we had against Leeds and Blackburn.

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 09:01 - Sep 24 with 2234 views

Metal_Hacker

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 07:50 - Sep 24 by ElephantintheRoom
Let me help you understand the complexities of football. If you score more goals than the opposition, you win If a 1-0 is more your thing you could always try an away game

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 09:10 - Sep 24 with 2218 views

Cheltenham_Blue

Improving the pitch to enable us to play fast, front foot attacking football was always going to help other teams who play the same way.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 09:13 - Sep 24 with 2202 views

Metal_Hacker

Interesting stats

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2023/08/championship-stats-2023-24-opta/

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 09:14 - Sep 24 with 2187 views

FrimleyBlue

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 20:51 - Sep 23 by ArnieM
Our defence (defenders) aren’t good enough when the ball is in our box.

It's not directly the defence imo that has the issue. The goals are part of collective mismanagement of situations.

The first goal.. Clarke. Burns. Morsy.. none of them did themselves any favours with this goal. Similar one of the Leeds goals.. morsy sits off and effectively watches the player progress.

The clarke own goal... does hladky have to own that? Should we have done better to stop the initial cross?

With the number of balls in box and attacks we do stop.. it's inevitable some will get through.. it's too easy tho imp to blame defence when there are midfielders who are also there who could help stop certain situations.

Someone's too tho you just have to hold hands up and say good goal.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 12:30 - Sep 24 with 2095 views

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It's the championship. We're facing better players and better organised teams. It's inevitable that we'll concede more goals.
I tend to look more pragmatically at the goals we concede.
Blackburn's first and third goals came from superb moves, particularly the third. I actually thought it was a goal we could expect to score. Overall I thought Blackburn were quite Ipswichesque in some of their build up play. They were good to watch.
I thought their 2nd was probably the worst to concede.
One interesting observation ( well I think it is!) is that they seemed to overload Clarke on most of their attacks. Sigurdson gave him a particularly hard time. In fact they pulled together an almost identical move not long after their first.
I love what Clarke gives us going forward, but that does sometimes impact on his positioning when defending.
Just to be clear. This is an observation and not a criticism of Clarke!
He fits KMs style of play perfectly.

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Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 13:26 - Sep 24 with 2075 views

bluefunk

Alex Neil described us as “brave” and that’s exactly what we are, we play to score, committing players forward which leaves us vulnerable at times. On a positive note, we aren’t conceding goals through turnovers in our third, which would be a great concern, as that would mean we aren’t executing the game plan. As frustrating as it is to concede, at least half the goals we’ve conceded at home have been down to the opposition quality, which will happen in this league and while we can obviously get better at defending, our away form suggests that we do have that in the locker.

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 13:36 - Sep 24 with 2063 views

hunty21

Now the Dust Has Settled a Little on 20:51 - Sep 23 by ArnieM
Our defence (defenders) aren’t good enough when the ball is in our box.

Basicalky you have 2 types of defender some like to pass amattack and are athletic the others are no nonsense physical and tight but lack skill on ball we have the first lot meaning we will concede more but create more

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