well battled but it isn't going to be, we don't get the rub of the green playing well or badly by the sounds of it...
priorities from now on: get an eleven that might resemble what we have next season bedded in and some heart and fight and togetherness back in the club, somehow convince Bailey to stay and drag Southampton down with us
As unlucky as we are, we have to stop letting in 2 goals a game and also maybe stop conceding from corners. How many goals have we conceded from deadballs this season?? What I don't understand is that a new manager and a nearly-new team and the identical defensive frailities prevail.
Anyway I don't care much, my favourite football times were in the third-division but I was a teenager then!!!!
Not saying we didn't play OK, merely that if we could win away, we might have had a chance of staying up, because in addition to Soton there are a couple of other teams (Blackpool and Forest) whose home record is really no better than ours.
What has scuppered us if that we have failed to win away 19 times out of 20 this season. That's not just down to luck. It's down to a lot of factors - not least that too often our ambition has been to settle for a point away from home and the tactic of soaking up pressure when we're on level terms usually comes undone.
But let's wait and hear from those who were there.
[cite]Posted By: Dazzler21[/cite]Harry we were playing the team top of the fecking league!
They didn't play like it though.
The result flattered Wolves and Harry is right, we've gifted too many goals through basic errors. We did the same last year too.
It wouldn't be so bad if we were creating and scoring plenty of goals ourselves, but we aren't. Today was another game without a goal from our forward line.
[cite]Posted By: nigel w[/cite]Not saying we didn't play OK, merely that if we could win away, we might have had a chance of staying up, because in addition to Soton there are a couple of other teams (Blackpool and Forest) whose home record is really no better than ours.
What has scuppered us if that we have failed to win away 19 times out of 20 this season. That's not just down to luck. It's down to a lot of factors - not least that too often our ambition has been to settle for a point away from home and the tactic of soaking up pressure when we're on level terms usually comes undone.
But let's wait and hear from those who were there.
Not arguing with the damned statistics - or our record overall during the season.
But the past 2 months, we've played pretty well on the road - and credit should be given where it's due.
''we've played pretty well on the road - and credit should be given where it's due.''
But we haven't won. The likes of Southampton, Norwich , Blackpool, Forest and PLymouth have all been picking up away wins while we've been picking up battling single points during this spell of playing ''pretty well'' on the road.
Would definitely like to hear from those there as to whether we were truly robbed today. My gut instinct says however well we did, Wolves probably had that extra little bit of class (like two strikers who got on the score sheet!)
But let's await reports from the brave travelling contingent.
[quote][cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]But the past 2 months, we've played pretty well on the road - and credit should be given where it's due.
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True, but the home form has undermined the away form.[/quote]
We have won one on the road all season, and it is our home form that has undermined our away form? It is true that we do seem to have been unlucky at times but you do make your own luck and we are just not good enough to do that. How many points have we picked up away from hom ein the last couple of months...I havn't looked it up but would guess 3, maybe 4, from 4 or 5 games? ...if that is from us playing well then no wonder we are bottom of the league as it is less than a point a game and therefore relegation form.
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]But the past 2 months, we've played pretty well on the road - and credit should be given where it's due.
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True, but the home form has undermined the away form.
We have won one on the road all season, and it is our home form that has undermined our away form? It is true that we do seem to have been unlucky at times but you do make your own luck and we are just not good enough to do that. How many points have we picked up away from hom ein the last couple of months...I havn't looked it up but would guess 3, maybe 4, from 4 or 5 games? ...if that is from us playing well then no wonder we are bottom of the league as it is less than a point a game and therefore relegation form.
I'm referring to recent away form - over the last two months, not all season.
We did well to get draws at Swansea, Barnsley and Reading but that is nothing unless we win at home and losing to Doncaster and Watford has undermined our renaissance.
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priorities from now on: get an eleven that might resemble what we have next season bedded in and some heart and fight and togetherness back in the club, somehow convince Bailey to stay and drag Southampton down with us
We've actually got a better home record than Southampton, but they've managed to win six times away from home.
That's what statistics say, Nigel.
But we've played damned well today - and the Gods have spat in our face.
Anyway I don't care much, my favourite football times were in the third-division but I was a teenager then!!!!
What has scuppered us if that we have failed to win away 19 times out of 20 this season. That's not just down to luck. It's down to a lot of factors - not least that too often our ambition has been to settle for a point away from home and the tactic of soaking up pressure when we're on level terms usually comes undone.
But let's wait and hear from those who were there.
Doesn't count, Dazzler.
If we don't win every game, we are shit, official.
Even if we're bottom of the League.
They didn't play like it though.
The result flattered Wolves and Harry is right, we've gifted too many goals through basic errors. We did the same last year too.
It wouldn't be so bad if we were creating and scoring plenty of goals ourselves, but we aren't. Today was another game without a goal from our forward line.
Not arguing with the damned statistics - or our record overall during the season.
But the past 2 months, we've played pretty well on the road - and credit should be given where it's due.
But we haven't won. The likes of Southampton, Norwich , Blackpool, Forest and PLymouth have all been picking up away wins while we've been picking up battling single points during this spell of playing ''pretty well'' on the road.
Would definitely like to hear from those there as to whether we were truly robbed today. My gut instinct says however well we did, Wolves probably had that extra little bit of class (like two strikers who got on the score sheet!)
But let's await reports from the brave travelling contingent.
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True, but the home form has undermined the away form.
what a great record!
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True, but the home form has undermined the away form.[/quote]
We have won one on the road all season, and it is our home form that has undermined our away form? It is true that we do seem to have been unlucky at times but you do make your own luck and we are just not good enough to do that. How many points have we picked up away from hom ein the last couple of months...I havn't looked it up but would guess 3, maybe 4, from 4 or 5 games? ...if that is from us playing well then no wonder we are bottom of the league as it is less than a point a game and therefore relegation form.
Was a very scrappy game either side could of won, how he gave their pen but not ours(which they didnt show on champ) is beyond me.
How was Spring alongside them?
I'm referring to recent away form - over the last two months, not all season.
We did well to get draws at Swansea, Barnsley and Reading but that is nothing unless we win at home and losing to Doncaster and Watford has undermined our renaissance.
He did ok to be fair. Made a couple of decent tackles, probably give him a 6.5/10
By all accounts, if there was any justice, we would have continued that unbeaten away form.