It would have been big had we won purely because it was one of our best chances of finally winning away, but I don't see it as make or break particularly.
Mainly because I think we're possibly beyond repair. Must plough on though.
Our defence, to be honest. The first goal was a shambles, allowing a chap in more or less the right-back position to waltz through. If your first name is Diego or Lionel then you can score from there, but not if you're a Championship winger.
Annoyingly, since my very first game we've been manna from heaven for underperforming teams and players. Any striker who couldn't score for toffee? Coventry will let you waltz through. I remember Milosevic filling his boots in particular amongst others.
I bet Fernando Torres is praying that...
That's the salvation to cling to. If we assume that away fixtures will give us nothing, we should hope for things elsewhere to go our way and that our recent decent (poetry) home form continues through to May. You never know.
We need to fool our players into thinking they're playing at home in the remaining away games. Problem is that a lot of teams fill more than 40% of their ground so it's hard to duplicate.
Definitely this for me. The first goal in particular; I'm sure McCleary's a good player and all but players shouldn't be going unchallenged from their own half and allowed to shoot.