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IT ALL STARTS FROM THE BACK

Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:24 pm

At any level of football you start with a solid defence and then work from there, if you don't concead any goals you don't lose, we have now conceaded 31 goals at home this season.

Re: IT ALL STARTS FROM THE BACK

Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:27 pm

And we changed a centre back partnership that looked solid just to accommodate Morrison !?

Re: IT ALL STARTS FROM THE BACK

Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:39 pm

piledriver64 wrote:And we changed a centre back partnership that looked solid just to accommodate Morrison !?


Yes you're right but i think it's more than that, to me it's a collective shambles, we must have the slowest defence in the premier league, (31 goals conceded at home this season) we can't seem to string any passes together and not ONE shot on target tonight, and where is the famous passion that warnock seems to give his players gone???

Re: IT ALL STARTS FROM THE BACK

Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:49 am

Whilst it is true what they say about a solid defence, it’s is also true that defending starts at the front!

We stand off so much and literally let oppositions walk through our midfield - added to that that we give the ball away constantly in ridiculous positions in the middle of the park and there is a point that any defence would crack under that constant pressure.

There were at three occasions tonight that we got in behind them and we had maybe one other player up, hugely limiting our options. Same Saturday - had a break and 6 of our players were jogging up to half way.

We make it too easy - we give teams too much respect with time on the ball, letting them play through us and not neighbors bodies forward to give them something to worry about. The lesser teams that have done well in the premier league have taken the games to the opposition - if we are going to have a chance of staying up, we need to get on the front foot significantly more than we have done to date.