LionOfGosforth

Another 2 points pissed away. I suppose you have to take the positive out of that, we didn't lose and it looked certain we would at half time. But fuck me, we seem utterly incapable of putting in a 90 minute performance. We're always shit in one half, most often the first.

He got subbed mate f*** off editing that s***!

Still can't defend for toffee but at least there's hope

He got subbed mate

Only 55 minutes wasted with that hopeless tool trundling around

We were playing well back then. We haven't put in a performance like that in months.

I'm fairly confident we'll play much better in the 'harder' matches. Think we'll beat Reading but the other two, we don't have the defensive mental strength to deal with them at the minute, just IMO

Wish beating s*** teams at home was his bread and butter too.

I watched them in the cup game last week. Didn't think much of them in an attacking sense but we won't get a second on the ball so our silky footballers like Dummett will thrive no doubt You do realise they made 8 changes to that side from the side that beat Rotherham 4 days earlier, and then made another 9 changes 3 days later when they beat Reading. The cup team is very much a second string. My point was they pressed like fucking lunatics from first minute to last. So if your point was it will actually be worse when they play their first choice against us, i'm not disagreeing

I watched them in the cup game last week. Didn't think much of them in an attacking sense but we won't get a second on the ball so our silky footballers like Dummett will thrive no doubt

There's no team out there with a greater ability to disappoint and be stunningly inept like us

Even a natural pessimist like me think's we'll beat them but that's an odd stat It is, especially considering we've won 22 games and at one point went on a 9 game winning run We've definitely won back to back home games a couple of times, just not with both of them being league games, assume that's what they meant. Beat Ipswich closely followed by Preston in the cup then later Birmingham in the cup followed by Rotherham.

Even a natural pessimist like me think's we'll beat them but that's an odd stat

It would be welcome but i'd take just being able to relax and not be close to cardiac arrest during the last 10 mins of every single f***ing game I couldn't have been more relaxed on Tuesday, like. Me too since there wasn't a game and we'd already won, Tuesday was great

It would be welcome but i'd take just being able to relax and not be close to cardiac arrest during the last 10 mins of every single fucking game

That's mental. The football played in both games was phenomenal and if anything, the scoreline was flattering to the opposition each time. We've not produced anything close since really but it's such a poor league, it rarely matters. Yes, we get chances in games but the football is generally dreadful and has been for months. Think we'll win but it'll be a grind like most games have been.

Basically aye. Our goal difference is already worth an extra point, so plenty of 1-0's will do. A good towsing handed out is always welcome but we haven't looked like scoring significant goals in a while, even the 4-0 over Rotherham was a grind. I don't know what happened to our football from September and October, we were creating loads in some games, could have scored 8 or 9 in the Norwich home game. I've learned not to expect much I suppose Only quoting this as a reference, not a direct reply to you but to the forum as a whole. I still think we create enough to win games? (Aside from Villa on Monday night - the most recent in the memory hence the overreaction of 'we don't look like scoring'). QPR home we had so many chances to finish the game off. Looking at you Perez. Norwich away we had Mitro 1v1 after 6 mins, Mitro hitting the post, Mitro header should've scored, Ritchie underside of the bar, Shelvey not connecting cleanly from 8 yards, Perez chance even after the equaliser late one. We do still create plenty to win football matches, whilst keeping opposition chances to a minimum with our good shape behind the ball. HTL! Think people assume that because our general play isn't particularly fluid at the moment we're not creating enough to win matches. This isn't the case at all, we're just spectacularly poor at taking them. So many matches this season should have been way more comfortable than they ended up. And even taking this into account we've scored plenty of goals. Whether it's the case that our fluidity is lacking leading to not looking like scoring many or our ability to take chances is lacking (this is most definitely the case, our finishing is generally terrible), either way, we don't look like scoring enough and winning a game comfortably MOST weeks. Our biggest problems this year have been two-fold - an inability to take the chances that we create or receive through poor opposition defending and a complete inability to defend set pieces or crosses competently in too many games, plus a propensity to give away brainless free-kicks near our box. This leads to games in general being far too close for comfort. Anyone who was at the Derby or QPR home games would have seen that. Plenty of chances in both, but poor finishing combined with panicky, downright rotten defending led to 2 points being p*ssed away in one game and nearly p*ssed away in the other. When we don't take chances and can't defend well enough, often enough, that leads to very few of our games being as comfortable as they should. Glass half empty I know.

Basically aye. Our goal difference is already worth an extra point, so plenty of 1-0's will do. A good towsing handed out is always welcome but we haven't looked like scoring significant goals in a while, even the 4-0 over Rotherham was a grind. I don't know what happened to our football from September and October, we were creating loads in some games, could have scored 8 or 9 in the Norwich home game. I've learned not to expect much I suppose

Have a day off man, when did we last score or even look like scoring 6 this season? I get they're s*** but I don't know where 6 goals would come from? i'd take 1-0 now Preston and QPR? Even still, I'm one for overly optimistic hyperbole. Yup, I forgot about Preston in the cup and QPR feels like so long ago, it's almost like a different era

Have a day off man, when did we last score or even look like scoring 6 this season? I get they're s*** but I don't know where 6 goals would come from? i'd take 1-0 now How about the two times we won 6-0? Ok, I suppose I should have prefaced this post with, yes, I realize we did hit 6 twice earlier in the season but it was 6 months ago and we've been basically playing averagely at best since beating Leeds away and scoring 6 without Gayle is tremendously unlikely, though theoretically possible. Better?

Have a day off man, when did we last score or even look like scoring 6 this season? I get they're shit but I don't know where 6 goals would come from? i'd take 1-0 now

Seen them a few times recently. Impressed. Pretty much the only threat to the top 2 IMO, our game there is pivotal.

Draw that feels more like a win, shame about fucking Huddersfield

I'll take it now, this would be a cracking result