Yeah I was just going to post the similarity in approach.
Transfer Rumour Charlie Hughes (26 Viewers)
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Only if he's good enough for the prem. If he's not then we've got to buy again.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Either someone near the relegation zone or otherwise, top end of L1.
Perennial Lurker
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Had a great game last night
Londonccfcfan
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About time we had a clean sheet...whens our last one? Blackburn early October?
KenilworthSkyBlue
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Stoke last month.
Londonccfcfan
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Missed one.
Still its really not good enough..one clean sheet in last 8 or so games.
TomRad85
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Not good enough but we're top of the league and we still have the joint most clean sheets in the division. I sure hope we hit 'good enough' levels by the standards of this forum soon.
Londonccfcfan
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Conceded 9 goals in our last 5 games. Leaves us with mountain to climb.
TomRad85
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To be clear i couldn't give a donkeys dick if we don't keep another clean sheet all season as long as our style of play allows us to pick up enough points to do what needs to be done. This forum can't even appreciate the good times while they are happening, there is not one person that would have predicted we'd be in this position. Completely baffling.
Londonccfcfan
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A clean sheet we should have got us a win vs Preston against 10 men.
We shoukd have ground out a 1 nil win..like we did at Stoke.
Our style of play is amazing. But we have started to leak lots of goals...Our defending at Wrexham was borderline pathetic.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Ironically the mistake at PNE was in not staying on the attack to finish the game off.
TomRad85
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The defending at Wrexham is easily explained by the number of changes, but even if it wasn't, we will concede shit goals. We're a Championship team and we play a style where we can be got at but really cannot be argued with given the results and just generally being a fun watch for the fans. I'll take this over Burnley-ball every day of the week.
I'll give you Preston was annoying, i was fuming towards the end of that game and for a bit afterwards but in the cold light of day we're still in a great position. It was actually the first time i've been disappointed with attitude of the players all season, i genuinely think they thought it was done at 1-0. I think and hope its a lesson which proves nothing can be taken for granted and at least we still got a point while learning that lesson.
TomRad85
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A general drop off in application all over the pitch, both attack and defence really. Then once they equalised we never wrestled it back.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Last two games the opposition keeper has been MOTM which says all you need to know really.
It’s plenty good enough if you’re top of the league by a clear margin. Our approach is often pretty gung ho, there are risks and trade-offs that are a part of that. It’s an acceptable price to pay if you have the goalscoring ability that this team has.
TomRad85
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I think Ipswich deserved their win in the end, fine margins and it plays out very differently if we go 1-0 which we would have done if their goalie didn't pull off a worldie. It happens, it's not an easy fixture. I even think Preston deserved their point really from a battling with 10 men for so long point of view. Deepdale is just cursed. Bristol is a big fixture though, we could do with just the talk of a 'wobble' going away and 3 home points would do nicely.
theskyisthelimit
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Haji Wright missed 3 golden chances (I have the old adage of atleast he's getting into the positions to miss as opposed to in between the two international breaks where he did not look like he would ever get goalscoring schances)
If those three or even one of those three go in then it's a totally different game and reaction on here.
If those three or even one of those three go in then it's a totally different game and reaction on here.
Brighton Sky Blue
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My point is there’s all this melodrama over two games where the oppo keeper has had to play brilliantly, while the referee’s had to cheat in one of them and we’ve carried fitness issues etc etc. They are frustrating results but for now it’s blown out of proportion by some.
TomRad85
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Yes I agree. I think some people just like some drama.
Doesn't that depend on how you look at things, especially as we're at the nitty gritty point of our season,we have to work with what we have don't we?
A more robust style away from home, bit late now,at this particular time?
baldy
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What mountain to climb? We're still top of the mountain - stop being dramatic
Soon eaten away though?
baldy
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I just think there's a perceived 'wobble' because we lost v Ipswich & only drew v Preston - win on Saturday & we'll all be non-doubting Thomas's again
theskyisthelimit
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Other teams will have hard months.
It we beat Ipswich at home then our games have cancelled each other out.
Southampton will be hard but they could be fearing us just as much as we will be worrying about them (2 bad results don't make us a bad team)
Bristol City we should be winning and I hope we do so that we can stop the negative narrative
baldy
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The 2 results aren't even that bad considering one was against a newly relegated Prem team & the other wasn't even a defeat but a draw at a team that's not doing too bad in the league - expectations are so high because of the standards that have been set so far this season that even a draw away is deemed as a poor result (albeit playing v a 10 man team)
Lamps
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In our last 14 games we've won 11, drawn 1 lost 2. We've won games because of the goals our defenders score.
Would you prefer our defenders to defend and not attack?
theskyisthelimit
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That's very true. It's disappointing from the season we have been having, but realistically we are going to slip up occasionally. We built the cushion to be able to afford slip ups.
Matt Grimes' Beard
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Scored 10 though. We're winning the league!!!!!
Mucca Mad Boys
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This is where performances need to be judged rather than the results. The results are overall, quite negative but the performances in both games were quite good.
McKenna said that Ipswich’s performance against Stoke last night was better than their 3-0 win over us because it was smash and grab from them. Make no mistake, they deserved the win but it was a close knit affair in the first half and in the second, we were chasing.
Back to winning ways on Saturday and we put ourselves in good stead for the trip to Southampton.
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Mucca Mad Boys
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I’m not. We created the same xG against Boro and scored 4 goals (1.95 xG).
It didn’t help that Haji missed 2 big chances in the first half. It’s annoying that he’s missed big xG chances a lot.
fernandopartridge
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Having watched back the match I think he was extremely unlucky for the one from Saka's ball, did just about everything right.
Mucca Mad Boys
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I probably need to rewatch it, my seats were v low down so my perspective was pretty skewed for the first half.