15th best team at home

[Giraffe]

On home form alone we currently lie 15th. That says it all for me. We need to attack attack attack in the next three matches. Wingers, strikers galore. Forget pussying around we need to be going all out from the 1st minute.

6th on away form by the way.

 

[Luke93]

Goes to show we set up not to loose, just like under Poyet for the first half of last season. This was about the time last year when we started taking more risks, which is what we should do.

 

[Napper]

this time last season we were the 14th best at home.

Issues

 

[chucky1973]

Don't be silly, that's far too sensible

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Time to take the shackles off. Sorry but it is. Dont mind losing as long as we give it a right go. And the starting lineup against Watford was anything but.

 

[backson]

Strange stats

After our last home game we were 6th and everyone was happy, don't recall too many being despondent at our home form then. We've got one point from nine in the 3 away games, and now our club has apparently disintegrated.

But it's our home form that's the issue?

 

[Machiavelli]

On home form alone we currently lie 15th. That says it all for me. We need to attack attack attack in the next three matches. Wingers, strikers galore. Forget pussying around we need to be going all out from the 1st minute.

6th on away form by the way.

The binfest that the Watford game has provoked on NSC has mostly referred to Oscar's selection for away matches -- negative line-ups, no pace, no wingers, no support for Ulloa, etc. There's an argument to be made for this.
It is not an argument that could be made for his selection for home matches, where he starts with one winger and sometimes two. But note we're 6th when his selection is more negative, and 15th when less so.
I am not arguing that he should make negative selections, merely pointing this out.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Strange stats

After our last home game we were 6th and everyone was happy, don't recall too many being despondent at our home form then. We've got one point from nine in the 3 away games, and now our club has apparently disintegrated.

But it's our home form that's the issue?

Some people are on a Monday-Thread-Starting-NSC-Panic.

Suddenly we're rubbish again. 2 pts off where Gus had us at exactly the same point last season. We have most of our play off rivals to play at home still. We have 10 home games and 8 away games left. There is all to play for. Now is not the time for getting stressed out and agitated. We've got every chance of getting into the play-off's still, and every chance of getting into the FA Cup 1/4 finals. It shouldn't really be all doom and gloom.

 

[Giraffe]

The binfest that the Watford game has provoked on NSC has mostly referred to Oscar's selection for away matches -- negative line-ups, no pace, no wingers, no support for Ulloa, etc. There's an argument to be made for this.
It is not an argument that could be made for his selection for home matches, where he starts with one winger and sometimes two. But note we're 6th when his selection is more negative, and 15th when less so.
I am not arguing that he should make negative selections, merely pointing this out.

I think though that yesterday is a reflection of the fact that we set the team up exactly the same for Burnley away as we did for Watford away.

Watford had one win in 15, were lying 16th. We should have gone there and really attacked with purpose. We didn't. Burnley away was justifiable.

At home we should be going all out. As others have said it was this time last season when we started to do just that. The difference is last season we didn't have Ulloa until now.

 

[Dan Aitch]

I'd rather draw 0-0 than lose 5-4. I'd rather win 5-0, don't get me wrong, but the defensive midfield and back four at Watford convinced me that if we did set up for an out-and-out attack, we'd get killed on the counter-attack.

It isn't time to commit season-suicide yet.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I think though that yesterday is a reflection of the fact that we set the team up exactly the same for Burnley away as we did for Watford away.

Watford had one win in 15, were lying 16th. We should have gone there and really attacked with purpose. We didn't. Burnley away was justifiable.

At home we should be going all out. As others have said it was this time last season when we started to do just that. The difference is last season we didn't have Ulloa until now.

We didn't really start a consistent run of winning form until 09 Feb last season at home to Hull, we then drew and then won 3 on the bounce.

Last season from the 01 Dec until the start of Feb, we P10 W2 D5 L3 pts11.

This season it is: P10 W4 D3 L3 pts15.

Wheels are off aren't they....

 

[Machiavelli]

I think though that yesterday is a reflection of the fact that we set the team up exactly the same for Burnley away as we did for Watford away.

Watford had one win in 15, were lying 16th. We should have gone there and really attacked with purpose. We didn't. Burnley away was justifiable.

At home we should be going all out. As others have said it was this time last season when we started to do just that. The difference is last season we didn't have Ulloa until now.

Fair enough. I don't disagree with any of these points. I do note that we actually had more attacking players available for the Watford game, with the addition of SD*2. Despite that, I think Oscar probably gave him the right amount of game time. I just think he should have started with KLL instead of JFC, with Orlandi and SD*1 alternating between the right and advanced midfield role.