[St Charles Owl]

Patterson needs to be consistent though this is the problem and the other is missing 3 or 4 a game when somebody else might score at least one of them misses ! He also in some games when it hasn't gone our way with the referee not been intelligent enough to stop giving free kicks away .

I agree with the missing 3-4 chances, but he isn't that sort of striker, he needs to play alongside a goalscorer and I am not convinced Berahino is that. I still think he would play best with Windass next to him but as a No9, Gergory is better, so I see him as a stop gap until they are back. He didnt give any stupid free kicks away today but he had to be close to a booking with his arguing with the ref.

As Maddix said, he is one of those players that creates space and chances for others and he is a complete team man. Lets hope he stays consistent.

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Interesting that as we move into the next match ...Burton lost at home today playing our formation of 3-5-2 against Shrewsbury who played a 3-4-1-2 ... something to consider if we want to get the game over with by HT and not run into a team bus parked up like at Doncaster .
I think this would give Patterson a different role as well and take the pressure off ...in the hole Berhinio might shine ?

The way we are playing at the moment and have been for a while now, I don't care what the opposition do, we have to beat the teams below us and we are good enough to do that. Maybe we need better tactics against better teams but we have done well so far against most of the top teams anyway. 4th place is up for grabs with our games in hand and if Wigan continue to strugle that second auto spot could come into contention, but we have to keep winning.

Next six games are:

Burton (H)
Lincoln (A)
Cambridge (H)
Accrington (H)
Gillingham (A)
Cheltenham (H)

All of these are winnable, not likely that we will do that so a minimum of 4 wins and a draw would see us still in contention.