My Positives From Last Night

[dejavuatbtn]

Yeah - Bridcutt has been truly exceptional. There were a couple of really magical moments from him last night but he can't do it on his own. Teams now really press on our back 5 from the off and this is starting to pay off for the opposition. There is a limit to how long we can hold out when playing our brand of football if the opposition are prepared to close us down. Gus's challenge is to work out how we can break a bit quicker when these situations arise. We seem to eventually get the ball up into midfield, only to go back and start the process all over again. We've got to keep hold of the ball further up the field.
Last night we almost stopped trying to attack once we had gone into the lead. I thought we were pretty poor after the first 15 mins - we never got going again. We have got to get CMS more involved than just having him run around chasing lost causes.

 

[jcdenton08]

• Craig Mackail-Smith
• Craig Noone - Terrific first half, beat his man every time, with good delivery as well.
• We are a good team - We are still a very good side, we proved that for the first 45 minutes last night, we bossed the game. We just don't know how to kill a game off. Gus will teach the players that and we will be fine. Top 10 finish.
• It's gone now, we've lost at home, the players won't have that worry hanging over them now and we can go on a good run.
• I learnt a lot about the "fans" that i sit around in the North Stand. Particularly the (unt who sits in front of me who turned round to punch his chair, missed and punched me in the leg when we went 2-1 down. No apology, just stormed out. At the final whistle there were very few fans left in my block, which was very very dissapointing and proves that what everybody is saying is true. We have 10,000+ plastic fans.

So, the good news is we lost at home. What is the bad news?!