Unfair to pick on individuals but I would say whilst the long term structure and plan all looks very credible (which Ashworth is rightly part of) cannot help but think the club have taken their eye off the ball with the short term needs of the team.
It’s a game of opinions but I think our main issues are
- our crossing and wide play is terrible
- our midfielders do not make any effort to get in the box and offer an alternative option to the strikers
- too many of our midfielders are slow which means we cannot counter teams with pace
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Could not have summed it up better and we are building ourselves a reputation as a place where promising in form players come to have their confidence sapped out of them.
No way would 40 points be needed this season that would take at least two of the bottom 3 to go on runs getting 10-12 points from the last ten games not going to happen.
I think this season it will be 36 or 37 with goal difference maybe coming into play
I think the point about a consistent best eleven is very valid and Potter is also criticised for the number of changes he makes but in his defence very few players in the squad have shown the consistency to demand a start every week.
Was amusing today watching Zaha getting rattled by the Greyhound, falling over in front of the east stand to huge cheers and then missing two absolute sitters at the death.
MacAllister was bang in form when he came to us so introducing him quickly should have been the answer so he can pick up where he left off. I sometimes think we over protect the players and there is as much risk on confidence leaving them out in than putting them in.