| A problem we really need to solve 22:25 - Jan 14 with 1329 views | SomethingBlue |
How do we shake off this propensity to fold under ... virtually nothing? Deflections, whatever — we really don't manage the big moments well and unless we sort this out very quickly it'll ruin our season, and probably more besides. Plymouth and Wednesday are navigating these things perfectly well. There's time to completely transform things but the pattern really isn't going in our favour. For me, today was a massive disappointment — gone from making a statement to confirming the worst things about us.
Game probably turned on Scarr's injury by the way. The game state if you're 1-0 up between, whatever it was, 68 and 77 is very different to the psychological effect of having nine minutes slung up on the board. But we had to be better, we weren't, it was all too predictable and — honestly — we really have to sort it out fast.
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| A problem we really need to solve on 22:29 - Jan 14 with 1269 views | backwaywhen |
Big Achilles heel …. We still have more than enough games left to put this right though IMO. | | | |
| A problem we really need to solve on 22:33 - Jan 14 with 1229 views | Illinoisblue |
We need to learn to grind out wins, and quick or this will get away from us in a hurry. I think there’s been a tad too much self-congratulatory back-patting going on from some fans (we’ve got our club back, best squad in the league, who should we sign for the Championship, let’s make the ground bigger) - that stuff needs to be quietened down right now. Long way to go, but something needs to spark a positive change. |  |
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| A problem we really need to solve on 22:35 - Jan 14 with 1204 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Annoyingly, we never seem to be under any sustained pressure but we can give up a goal at any moment from absolutely nothing and complete lack of concentration. Like someone literally walking through our defense or the ball coming down with a parachute on any defenders just standing around. Charlton/Wycombe/Pompey et al |  | | |
| A problem we really need to solve on 22:45 - Jan 14 with 1137 views | RegencyBlue |
| A problem we really need to solve on 22:29 - Jan 14 by backwaywhen |
Big Achilles heel …. We still have more than enough games left to put this right though IMO. |
We have but it needs putting right pretty quickly in my view.
We need to put a run of wins together to keep pace with Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday but at the moment we are either desperately trying to force a draw late on or throwing leads away! |  | | |
| A problem we really need to solve on 22:51 - Jan 14 with 1073 views | ITFC_Forever |
It’s happening far to often and far too long to be bad luck.
Promotion winning teams score late goals, not continually chuck them in.
We’ve got a run of games now which all look winnable on paper, but given our alarming propensity to concede from nothing, they are going to be hard work - each and every one of them,
As SB says, for all our dominance of games and the alleged quality of a squad, these bad habits could undermine our season, and if bigger fish come in for McK in the summer, it will set us back further still. |  |
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| A problem we really need to solve on 23:01 - Jan 14 with 970 views | LankHenners |
Was thinking earlier that Plymouth (in particular) and Wednesday's knack of finding winners and ours of finding ways to chuck points away are quite hard to shake which obviously isn't in our favour.
We're a good team, play well, score lots of goals etc. but this is not a good habit to have and as you say could be costly if it keeps going.
I said before the game that not winning wouldn't be the end of the world (which isn't the same as saying a point would be a good result) and I still think that. On the face of it a draw against the side in 1st isn't awful but the way it happened is very frustrating and is something that has happened before.
Think the best solution for us is to step it up when on top and put games to bed earlier. That might have happened without the lengthy stoppage but as you say we didn't manage the game well enough after that moment.
Very tough to get out of it but we have a favourable run of fixtures up to and after the Wednesday match until we hit Bolton away in March. Hopefully we can use that to rack up some points and get some confidence we can take into these moments when they happen again. |  |
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