Until we stop this “we must score two goals to even stand a chance of taking a point” nonsense that ruined so much of last season, and is now rearing its head once more this time out, we will never get anywhere. Simple facts. We changed how we played at the back end of last season and went on a great run. Ditto the season before when we won something like three of the last four to guarantee safety. There’s no point digging holes for ourselves in the first half of the season and leaving ourselves with survival as the only reasonable aim. We need results to build on - period. It’s gone on long enough now. We need to start building momentum, not chasing it when it’s needed for survival rather than progress, or the whole damn thing is pointless. I was as impressed as anybody after Blackpool, and indeed the signing of Matty Taylor (the injury is just damn unfortunate), but our performances since then have been unconvincing. We followed that up with throwing away a lead to concede four at home to Burton and then did the same while conceding three at Bristol. We also conceded three at home to Coventry and were lucky to only concede two today after totally ballsing up every last substitution. It isn’t good enough. The manager needs to take responsibility and so do the players. This can’t be how our seasons go as standard, namely horrendous starts and then a whole season of simply aiming to stay in the same league we started in. We can’t start each game effectively 2-0 down. We can’t have a situation where it’s always okay and we’re just one bobble or one header away from glory. I’ve lost count of how many different types of goals apparently don’t count. Set pieces don’t count, nor shots from distance, nor shots from a slip or a lapse in concentration and so on. According to our manager basically no goals count. Well, they do. And so far we are conceding too many almost weekly, and more often than not we are conceding more than we score. So sod what type of goals are going in, and stop them actually GOING in. Then we can start to move forward.
I’m hopeful we will take six points from the next two games, but FFS, this is such a letdown given some of the players we’ve pushed the boat out for late doors. We need to get results before we fall too far behind the pack. The first 11 games killed our entire season last time. Well, we’re seven in this term, and we are basically in exactly the same spot. It isn’t OTT to suggest we are two or three games from writing the season off and resigning ourselves to another battle to just make sure we stay in this league. And that’s really sad, because money has been spent and desires have been backed.
Time to get this thing going.