It’s the one thing that does bug me this season . It wasn’t broken so why have we tinkered with it . Was the best thing about us these last two seasons
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There’s shirley a happy medium.
It’s the one thing that does bug me this season . It wasn’t broken so why have we tinkered with it . Was the best thing about us these last two seasons
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I wish Potter teams could achieve defensive shut outs.
There’s no shame in having a great defensive set up, and clean sheets.
It’s not as if we’re being served up Champagne attacking football, goals galore and wins, to compensate. We’re not.
If we go down it will be our horrific defending. that costs us. We give away so many cheap goals.
I wonder if we had gone down, would we now be relying on CH's undoubted ability to get us back up again? Perhaps it was keeping us up - especially in the way that was achieved - that cost him his job.That's what the majority of people on here were saying about Hughton this time last year...
If we go down it will be our horrific defending. that costs us. We give away so many cheap goals.
6 months and 1 transfer window into a long term project.
Give me today over last seasons defensive solidity, away to Spurs, any day of the week.
Give me today over last seasons defensive solidity, away to Spurs, any day of the week.
What do you expect with only 2 strikers?We also waste too many good attacking opportunities. We can't expect to dominate Newcastle for 75 minutes and not score. Dominate Palace for 75 minutes and only get one goal. We can't expect to miss good chances to score and make it 2-0 against Spurs, and expect to get away with it.
Our lack of finishing, overplaying, making the wrong decisions in the final third is playing as big a part in our sense of failing to achieve what we should have as our defensive weaknesses.
Harsh. Very harsh. More enjoyable than the second half of last season, yes.This.
This season has been far more enjoyable than the last two.
I dunno, last year we knew what to expect and it played out exactly that way. This year we maybe expected a loss (or at least I did), but then we took the lead and that seed of hope started to develop and flower, only to be painfully ripped out. Last season was much less stressful and antagonising.
What do you expect with only 2 strikers?
Harsh. Very harsh. More enjoyable than the second half of last season, yes.
I dunno, last year we knew what to expect and it played out exactly that way. This year we maybe expected a loss (or at least I did), but then we took the lead and that seed of hope started to develop and flower, only to be painfully ripped out. Last season was much less stressful and antagonising.
True.That's four feet and two heads - more than enough to take shots and score goals!
I don't think it all lays at the feet of our strikers. Yes, the options there are limited, but the second line of attack - Alzate, March, Trossard, Gross, Proper, Stephens, Burn, Montoya, Schelotto, Bissouma, Mooy - they are as big a problem - not shooting when they should, not passing when they should, overplaying, not putting crosses in, and so on.
Apart from the last couple of games, Albion have played lovely football this year. Really enjoying it.
Bit annoying to be close to the bottom three. But it's an enjoyable season. Playing enjoyable football trumps playing ugly negative stuff. Depends what you want. I'd rather be in the Championship playing nice football than the Premier League serving up tedium. Enjoying seeing Albion was always more important to me.
Hopefully I can still have both.