We're so close to being in a very good place. Undoubted emerging talent on the pitch, developing management inspiration, committed fan base, entertaining footballing style and sustainable business plan. But the margins of success in relation to attitude, skill, knowledge and luck are so fine that it's in the balance. I think recruitment and coaching are now in the spotlight, get them right and we're flying. Here's hoping.
The only part of last season where I thought we were in bother was the stoke game due to the unbelievably low standard we performed at. The rest of the seasons negative results always seemed to rest on individual error(diaby og@wba, mads 1st half of season etc ), hitting the woodwork a record number of times (Charlton and Luton away etc) or poor decisions (stone waller v Leeds before they scored, Wigan foul on Ludwig etc) We have been soundly beaten very few times this season and based on that I was always confident. Our lads have stood up, worked their socks off, improved, adapted, grown and listened this season and you can’t buy that as a group. I don’t think we’ll have a problem next season and we’ll definitely stay up as a bare minimum.
During the play-off final last night it was mentioned that Fulham scored the second fewest goals from corners last season in the championship. And that we scored the fewest. Coming back to your point about coaching, we need to improve at attacking corners and free kicks imo. Our goals scored from both was poor last season.
Brentford game at home sticks in my memory. We battered them for 25 mins. Chaplin gets put clean through and makes a right Horlics of his effort to make it 2-0 we lose 1-3.
The apparent lack of any kind of plan at set pieces annoys me, they can be critical moments in the game and to not have an idea of something creative or unexpected to do is ridiculous....when the opposition get set pieces I'm worried...when we get them it hardly crosses my mind that we'll actually score.
