Magpie wrote:
Resurrecting this zombie thread as Im starting to change my mindset a little. Im beginning to think that MW has a bit of a blind spot with regards to away performances. Of course some will point to games such as away to mansfield and they would be correct to do so but its also true that we have suffered some quite heavy defeats away, culminating in this weekends Jekyll and Hyde performance.
20 minutes of some of the best play we have produced for several seasons and 70 minutes of spineless capitulation. For me, its time for a bit more pragmatism away from home and not so much of the gung ho stuff that sees up ship 3+ goals on far too many occasions. The first was a clusterfuck for sure but by no means should have led to the total collapse of the team. We must be one of the best teams in this league going forward, I dont think we score enough but we do create a lot of chances. Its in transition where we are not so good, I would go as far as to say we are really very bad and make it easy for any half decent side to play through our lines straight onto a back three that is by a mile the weakest area of the team. Leaving them exposed time after time when we are away is suicidal.
All managers have their blind spots over certain things, hopefully MW can do something about what seems to me to be his
Just a repeat of Bradford and Doncaster. Mansfield was the exception because we equalised quickly.
The team absolutely capitulates when conceding away from home. There is a critical weakness along that entire defence. I'd like to see Lewington in there but then again, he was in the team against Doncaster, so I am not sure.
We've always used that reasoning of the pitch being small and in poor quality, but Stockport's pitch was in better nick than our own. Even if we got to a Wembley final, those previously optimistic thoughts of how the pitch would suit us were destroyed by Stockport.
Daniel Harvie has become a big, big problem for me. He is a mess defensively and his passing has been wayward. I am really struggling to understand what he is offering us at the moment. Passion?
I'm telling you now, we ain't beating Walsall with this defence. I know our home form has been decent, but after the anilation on Saturday, I can't see us bouncing back like we usually do. That was a sickener.