Might it be fitness-related? Every time I check in on your scores, it seems like you're shipping goals (and points) in the final twenty minutes.
Spot on Woopert - seen it too often this season - players either switch off or just forget to do basic stuff like clear the lines and push out - Carson is every week waving his defenders up the pitch but they sit too far back. Defense is the basis of any success and we need a leader at the back.
I was there and fitness had a lot to do with it, when energy drops so does concentration. It all started well with a high tempo game that did not let them settle on the ball, and the midfield playing well up the park. In the second half the energy levels dropped off and the midfield sat further and further back, forcing an increasingly stretched defence to boot the ball upfield only for the opposition to pump it back into our penalty area. Some of this was down to Southend upping their game but the real reason was we tired and sat too deep.
Totally agree, was there as well......first 35 mins we were like a bloody freight train, Shrimpers hardly had the ball, odd shot on goal, that's it.......second half, same as Saturday, players come out and the game is a completely different tempo, after 10 mins you could see the goals coming. Players need to be sharper, fitter and alert.......as LFIH says, with fitness comes concentration.......I hope!
