Beefy - nobody enjoys playing against a Pulis team. I think we will lose tomorrow night by 2-0. Our defence is far from ready yet. Dawson may well be the answer but he appears to believe he should be playing PL football this season. The last 3 home games against modest opposition. Coventry, Bolton and QPR have seen us ship 5 goals and there was some awful defending against Norwich.
On the plus side we do look quite good going forward but I do not accept the "if they score 3, we'll score 4 mentality" we have to learn to defend better. QPR look to be the worst side in the division but at half time last week at 1-1, I thought we had another Bolton result on our hands. Our goalkeeper has big shoes to fill for Foster. We dither at the back and better teams may take advantage. Defending the post from corners seems to be a thing of the past. Defenders need to be miles better at stopping crosses and when crosses come in, we need to be miles better at challenging opposition forwards and denying them space.
It goes without saying that I hope I am wrong and we are all celebrating a spectacular Baggie performance tomorrow night.
On the plus side we do look quite good going forward but I do not accept the "if they score 3, we'll score 4 mentality" we have to learn to defend better. QPR look to be the worst side in the division but at half time last week at 1-1, I thought we had another Bolton result on our hands. Our goalkeeper has big shoes to fill for Foster. We dither at the back and better teams may take advantage. Defending the post from corners seems to be a thing of the past. Defenders need to be miles better at stopping crosses and when crosses come in, we need to be miles better at challenging opposition forwards and denying them space.
It goes without saying that I hope I am wrong and we are all celebrating a spectacular Baggie performance tomorrow night.