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and an understandable response when you've just conceded 4 and are conceding 2 a game on average.

The Robins way for much of his 4 seasons. Keep it tight first half and try and nick it 2nd half.

Yeah I was just logging in to say the same and Oggy nailed it with his summary. We're so defensive. Guess we've been sent out to get to half time without conceding but it's awful to watch. The passing is awful because the progressive pass from the wing backs and bottom of the box is having to...

Looks like we've had a change in ref for tonight too. It was reported in the match preview that it would be David Webb, who ref'd our L2 playoff final at Wembley. Now they're saying it's Andy Davies, who refereed our matchfixed last day of the season 0-0 with Morecambe in 2017/18. He's given 3...

Heart is saying city win with much improved set pieces again, head is saying Middlesboro will be a big, strong, typical Warnock side and bully us off the park.

It doesn't have to be a constant stream of updates, I don't want a poll on the carpet colours every other week. But the club could still occasionally explain what the next step is and what the delays are when things hit a significant unexpected hitch. There's only a few people who will be...

We're gonna win today. Robins will play a new formation, use all his subs in the first half, and Rose will score the winner from a Kastaneer cross.

Match day! :love::love:

In an old school 4-3-3 the width came from the 2 wide forwards who effectively played as wingers but int he modern 4-3-3 the width comes from the fullbacks. In fact they're not really fullbacks in a 4-3-3 and in possession of the ball should actually be higher than the 3 central midfielders, at...

'Knapsack on a stick for Mowbray' doesn't roll off the tongue so well.

Agree with that completely with regards to the Swansea game and yes we did well to weather it and yes we should have won in the end but the reason we did is that they gave us time and space to play, which was almost their downfall. Swansea's spell of dominance came from scoring right before...

Did you really think we were the better team in that 15 minutes? Their press was highlighting exactly the same issues as in every other game we've played a team that presses. We barely got out of our own half except for that one incisive counter for Godden's chance. I mean we were coping ok with...

He and Kelly looked good together first 15 minutes but we were camped in our half even before we went down to 10 men. There's no one to pass forwards to when they get the ball and O'Hare ended up almost playing as a left winger trying to find some space and escape markers.

Every team in this league will have now seen how we've struggled each game we've come up against a press. We aren't good enough to try the slow build from the back in this league when put under pressure and we are making basic, fundamental errors because of it. We could barely get out of our...

It's close with him and McCallum. I think McCallum offers more defensively in a back 4.

Central defence a worry but need to find a partnership that works. McFadz looked terrible in a back 4 today.

Just said on the plan B thread that 4-3-3 is the way to go. O'Hare-Godden-Walker and Shipley, Bakayoko and Allen can come off the bench for them as appropriate. Our strength this year is in Sheaf-Kelly-Hamer so they should all play in a 3 which allows Dabo and McCallum/Giles licence to get...

Where is our strength this year? In the DMs for me - Kelly, Sheaf and Hamer. Sheaf and Hamer are quarterbacks anyway, rather than traditional DMs - so base the team around those 3. O'Hare and Walker play as inside forwards, not wingers, and give us some pace off godden. The width still comes...

It's not a Plan B we need. It's a better plan A against teams that press.

Swansea dropped a bollock by not pressing us, still can't believe they gave us so much space in midfield.