Crucial final few minutes. Get out of the mindset that draws and near misses are good enough. Reduce that eight point gap to six.
Well, a game of 2 halves, if only Chappers had scored that pen, it mght have been different. Still, we are still at the races. Well played 2nd half boys. Glad Humphreyes played well too.
That ended up being an enjoyable game to watch. We'll take a lot of confidence from how we got ourselves back in the game and we'll probably feel a little down that we couldn't find a winner.
It sounds as tho the defense is still fragile. When did we last play the same backs in consecutive games? But it took courage, intensity, energy to get back from 2 down. We gotta start that winning streak soon!
Having not seen one kick of the game, and delendent on audio, I feel we can take much confidence from our 2nd half performance. We clearly dominated for long periods, and against a top team in good form and a 6 game winning streak. Still hopeful that we can take this forward and get a win next Tuesday.
1st mummours of discontent in 1st half today. Had Sheff Wed scored the 3rd - their striker was clean through but in attempting to round the keeper, took it way too wide, the crowd would have really got on the players back. Free kick at the end of the half changed momentum and 2nd half was all us but just couldn’t get the winner. I think top 2 is now out of reach (but I can still hope). The one thing I will continue to complain about as the lack of leadership at the back, we have no one who can command our defence. Paul Cook tried to address this -1st player he tried to sign was the Luton captain but didn’t get him. We now need to string 5/6 wins together to have a chance but can’t see it
The only hope we’ve got is that we go on a run and either Sheffield Wednesday or Plymouth absolutely tank. We’ll be doing very well to win 2 points out of every 3 for the rest of the season and that would see us close.
Totally agree,our biggest shortcoming now is a lack of someone to marshall the defence.We score enough goals but just conceded too many soft ones.That said I really enjoyed today's game and the idiots baying for McKenna's head after we conceded the second ought to do one and question whether supporting Town is really for them!
Well, could have been worse. Pleasing that we managed to turn it around, but some continuing worrying themes. Namely, can't capitalise on golden opportunities in big games. I think I accept that Automatics are out of reach now, but result has repaired some level of confidence that we would have a good shot in the playoffs. I don't know whether to read anything into our dip coinciding with the FA cup* and the extra rotation that brought with it. * I make this claim without actually cross referencing the dates, but certainly feels like they've coincided.
It’s nothing to do with the FA Cup. We stopped improving and McKenna did nothing to address our obvious weaknesses. There are very fine margins in football and eventually it’ll catch up with you. I reckon he was looking to January and thought bringing in forwards would have us convert more chances. I’m losing patience, because for all the valid calls to give McKenna time there’s absolutely no guarantee we’ll run away with the league next season. We need more urgency. McKenna needs to show a bit of fire.
For me, McKenna is showing naïveté. It is his 1st management job and it’s starting to show. At present, he only has a plan a and if it doesn’t work, he struggles. Even with the substitutions, it is always almost like for like with very rare change of formation. I think we have an excellent young manager but think he could be helped by bringing in an experienced coach (of his choosing as we certainly don’t want to rock the boat)
One of the biggest issues is the substitutions. Every opposing manager knows exactly what changes we’ll make. Ridiculous!
Our defense has gone from rock solid, impressive and least goals conceded by end October, to giving away soft goals and last few leaky minutes, and 3 pts! I am sure that trying 7 different defensive formations and pairings (credit to stats fan) has a lot to do with it. No full ifollow match replay. Are we surprised?
This I do understand - we went on the attacking foot and started creating a ridiculous number of chances. But the balance was not right and because we were picking up points, McKenna didn’t change it or work more on conversions. No doubt, he was working on things in training but the tactics have been found wanting. Reason being, instead of settling for winning by small margins and bring relaxed and patting yourselves on the back, you have to keep improving and go from there to trying to trounce the opposition. I think messing around at the back was a symptom when we started dropping points, but it was never the cause in the first place so that’s only made things worse.
Tell you what, that’s an absolute belter from Broadhead. Last time we had that capability in the side might have been Jimmy Bullard?
