15-02-2016, 14:44
It's not loads of goals I'm after Pooch. It's goals to win games. No one wins a league match scoring 0 do they?
Burton are maybe the worst example possible for us because they are top. A draw when they should've won won't be a disaster for them, but for us it'll be nearly a defeat. A huge two points lost.
Burton have been defending well all season. In comparison three of our defenders are injured. Hird is our most experienced natural defender. Talbot spent a lot of his career playing elsewhere. Everyone laughs if I mention using Humphreys experience. Anderson, Donohoe, O'Neil all lack experience, Maguire's never played. It doesn't realistically sound, taking all that into account, that we'll climb the league with a series of clean sheets.
So we have no option but to score.
We have proved at times we can do it. And whilst we are doing it we reduce the pressure on our weak defence, which will then improve. Hopefully.
If it were the start of the season and I was thinking about winning a league I'd be trying to build on a firm defence. If you know you've got foundations of sand you're likely to build a very crooked spire indeed.
(Whenever I played behind a good defence they were playing behind an attack that looked like scoring when we were in possession. If you look toothless up front, you eventually concede at the back.)
Burton are maybe the worst example possible for us because they are top. A draw when they should've won won't be a disaster for them, but for us it'll be nearly a defeat. A huge two points lost.
Burton have been defending well all season. In comparison three of our defenders are injured. Hird is our most experienced natural defender. Talbot spent a lot of his career playing elsewhere. Everyone laughs if I mention using Humphreys experience. Anderson, Donohoe, O'Neil all lack experience, Maguire's never played. It doesn't realistically sound, taking all that into account, that we'll climb the league with a series of clean sheets.
So we have no option but to score.
We have proved at times we can do it. And whilst we are doing it we reduce the pressure on our weak defence, which will then improve. Hopefully.
If it were the start of the season and I was thinking about winning a league I'd be trying to build on a firm defence. If you know you've got foundations of sand you're likely to build a very crooked spire indeed.
(Whenever I played behind a good defence they were playing behind an attack that looked like scoring when we were in possession. If you look toothless up front, you eventually concede at the back.)