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Always lose away to teams in the bottom six

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Any one who gets  stuck in  tends to beat us. Folks say a blipis inevitable  why we lost 5 when Micky Adams went up we have already lost 4 twiceasmany as QPR and Burnley. West Ham  came 3rd with 86 points

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I'm not quite sure what your point is, I'm fairly sure it's stupid. But anyway, in response to the thread title, Yeovil.

Guest kristianity77
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We might well of lost 4 compared to Burnley and QPRs 2.  But more importantly, do you think they would swap places with us in the league?

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Wtf is this?

We're joint top. Yeah we've lost 4 but we've also won 12.

 

And 'always lose away'? You sure about that? Yeovil?

 

You got any other stats to shock us with just to suit your own view?

 

Yawn.

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We are top of the league? Surely that speaks for itself?

 

Last season Hull lost 15 games (but got promoted)... But that's the same amount as Blackpool who finished 15th, and Birmingham who finished 12th.

Swansea lost 14 games when they got promoted, and only scored 69 goals.

 

What's the difference? The amount a team wins? We're top of the league for a reason, regardless of how many games other teams have lost.

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I think he has a point, but I don't agree that a blip is inevitable.

 

We've got to stop losing the games, draw is the least we should expect.

Guest Col city fan
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I think he has a point, but I don't agree that a blip is inevitable.

We've got top stop losing the games, draw is the least we should expect.

This...

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Any one who gets  stuck in  tends to beat us. Folks say a blipis inevitable  why we lost 5 when Micky Adams went up we have already lost 4 twiceasmany as QPR and Burnley. West Ham  came 3rd with 86 points

For some strange reason no one bothered to tell the managers of any of the following teams that all they had to do was "Get stuck in" - whatever that means:

 

Boro

Wycombe

Leeds

Derby

Birmingham

Carlisle

Wigan

Blackburn

Blackpool

Derby

Barnsley

Yeovil

Hudds

Bournemouth

Fulham

Watford

Ipswich

Millwall

 

Hmm, interesting...

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Any one who gets  stuck in tends to beat us. Folks say a blipis inevitable  why we lost 5 when Micky Adams went up we have already lost 4 twiceasmany as QPR and Burnley. West Ham  came 3rd with 86 points

 

lol

 

Winner of the Sunday League football cliche of the day award walked away with.

 

Fcuk tactics when you play Leicester, just get stuck in.

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Twice as many losses as QPR and Burnley, bit still top.

 

Shows the value of going for three points instead of taking a draw, should always do it. One point for a draw and three for a win, it's common sense.

 

You could lose 20 games in a season and still go up if you won the other 26

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What does it matter which teams you are beating as long as you put up a points total sufficient to go up?

Posted

This happens, my Saints supporting mate said that some games they just looked completely redundant. It's all about how we pick ourselves up against Brighton.

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One win and one defeat is better than two draws.

 

I'm more concerned about whether we able to sustain good performances and get results whilst sitting at the top of the league, something we seem to have struggled with.

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Can't personally see any reason to moan, complain or change anything. Just leave it how it is. We're going to lose some games, it's inevitable! And we're far more likely to lose away than home, that's pretty standard really! We're still going up this year, in Pearson I trust.

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Can't personally see any reason to moan, complain or change anything. Just leave it how it is. We're going to lose some games, it's inevitable! And we're far more likely to lose away than home, that's pretty standard really! We're still going up this year, in Pearson I trust.

How the hell is it inevitable? That's stupid. Is it also inevitable that we win games? No we have to go out there and earn it.

We didn't go out and earn it today, but lets stop excusing that with previously good form, and a short sighted view that we are top of the league. It's a long season as points like these will hurt us. It was an opportunity to be in automatic by 5 points going into a difficult run. As Nigel says we take each game one by one and this one is no exception, it wasn't good enough and need to improve now.

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The point is a valid one.

 

Look at the teams that have beaten us away from home this season; Charlton, Doncaster and Sheffield Wednesday. All relegation fodder and yet all beat us.

 

When there are scraps and physical battles to be won in the middle of the park James, King and Drinkwater can't cut it and in all of these games we've been unable to take a hold of the ball and the match because we've been out-fought. Second half last night Pearson put Hammond on to give us a bit more bite and it worked because we were improved second half. In games away at these poor sides who want to turn the match into a scrap we've got to take a different approach, all the best teams in this league can scrap when they need to.

 

Whether Hammond is the ideal man for the job I'm not sure. Personally I'd like someone with an even bigger physical presence, a real big unit who might not have as much ability on the ball but who can do the dirty work when required. But he's certainly better at it than King, Drinkwater and James. Hopefully Pearson learns from his mistake (which in reality has been made for the last two years - anyone recall Millwall away where we lost the battle and subsequently the match?) and, when we go to sides that are likely to want to turn the match into a battle because they know they won't beat us playing football, we see Hammond in from the start to help us take a grip on the game early doors. Millwall away on 1st January will tell us if he has.

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The point is a valid one.

Look at the teams that have beaten us away from home this season; Charlton, Doncaster and Sheffield Wednesday. All relegation fodder and yet all beat us.

When there are scraps and physical battles to be won in the middle of the park James, King and Drinkwater can't cut it and in all of these games we've been unable to take a hold of the ball and the match because we've been out-fought. Second half last night Pearson put Hammond on to give us a bit more bite and it worked because we were improved second half. In games away at these poor sides who want to turn the match into a scrap we've got to take a different approach, all the best teams in this league can scrap when they need to.

Whether Hammond is the ideal man for the job I'm not sure. Personally I'd like someone with an even bigger physical presence, a real big unit who might not have as much ability on the ball but who can do the dirty work when required. But he's certainly better at it than King, Drinkwater and James. Hopefully Pearson learns from his mistake (which in reality has been made for the last two years - anyone recall Millwall away where we lost the battle and subsequently the match?) and, when we go to sides that are likely to want to turn the match into a battle because they know they won't beat us playing football, we see Hammond in from the start to help us take a grip on the game early doors. Millwall away on 1st January will tell us if he has.

Good point well put. Problem was once we has bite, we has no creativity and subsequently played hoofball.

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I wasn't there but I don't get the impression we were muscled out of this game. There was some poor defending/closing down for their goals but we had 59% possession with 15 attempts 8 of which were on target.

 

It seems like it was generally just a poor performance in terms of passing and finishing as I said in another topic that could just a easily be down to being unable to take the pressure of maintaining the top spot as it was about being out muscled.

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You were probably unlucky that the opposition sacked their manager 2/3 days before...

 

How many times do you see said team come out and play so much better than they have done all season.

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