Winning when playing poorly...

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

is championship winning form...

 

[Canterbury Blade]

EEL EEL EEL EEL EEL EEL EEL EEL.....

Apprentice legend...

 

[FTPE]

I don't think we've been poor I think we are finding it difficult to break teams down that come for a point.
We are better against confident sides this year.

 

[SwissBlade]

Time to start believing...? Nah still too early... but we're getting there

 

[BigBed]

Chapman made the difference I thought, the only player that really took it to them when he came on!!

Soooooooo relieved with that!

 

[bornablade]

We've placed a great deal on all these home games prior to Christmas. We may now find it easier playing away where the opposition will be encouraged to play a more open game.

 

[dave the drummer]

I don't think we've been poor I think we are finding it difficult to break teams down that come for a point.
We are better against confident sides this year.

I'm on the isle of man so cant get to BDTBL but surely we must have been all over em according to the stats, 20 attempts on goal?

 

[BigBed]

Hope your right, Charlton bumped 5 in tonight!!!!!

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Phew

 

[BigBed]

20 attempts, 1 goal, not really a massive plus in my eyes!

 

[Jehovah]

Im having heart attack ffs......arrrrggggggghhh-hhhhhhhhhhh...the blades.....

 

[Barney]

Made it way too difficult for ourselves.

Pity we had to wait till 90 +3 against 9 man Bury but a wins a win and boy was that sweet.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I've not celebrated a goal like for a while

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

That wasn't our best performance. Our stats tell a phoney story for me...there wasn't much pace and incisive passing like the Chesterfield game. We were stifled by their game plan which we need to find away around. However, still finding a way to win whilst not playing at our potential is what champions do.

 

[Harry's Game]

I didn't doubt it was coming for a second....

 

[DifferentClass]

The best wins come when we're playing shit Just goes to show that even in a rough patch we can still grind out summat.

Onwards and upwards!

UTFB!

 

[Esablade]

Knill....

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

51 shots in 2 games is not playing poorly but we need to work on breaking teams down. Especially as the season wares on and teams get desperate

 

[RealMcCoy]

I think tonight's game (missed being there because of queues at passport control Manchester!) was a reflection of Duffy's absence.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

is championship winning form...

Let's concentrate on League One for now...

 

[Bartyblade]

The best wins come when we're playing shit Just goes to show that even in a rough patch we can still grind out summat.

Onwards and upwards!

UTFB!

Just seen the goal on another thread but there didn't seem to be any 'grind' about it.
A well worked footbally (?) goal.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

I didn't doubt it was coming for a second....

Said Norah to a seven times a day LYDON

Stay on the scene.....

 

[Sneinton Blade 1952]

If you play football as I still do (at 64) you understand that what is "expected" doesn’t always happen. Before tonight we had some blades predicting us burying Bury with eleven players 5-0! No doubt they are complaining we couldn't beat 9 man Bury more than 1-0. Look at the wider context - how many games unbeaten? I am loving this!

 

[Snowman]

NEXT.

 

[Hackblade]

I thought we played well. Looked like being one of those games when the goal wouldn't come but the players got there. Well done.

 

[ForgeBlade]

Personally if we win every match 1-0 I'll be happy. But we do need to find a way to break down teams playing for a draw. The longer our run goes on, the more teams from this league will see a point at the lane as a good result, and more and more will approach the game like Bury did tonight.

That said...I can't remember the last time I went quite that mental at a blades goal

 

[Ricky]

There's winning when playing poorly and then there's struggling to break down 10 men or less for the best part of two games. Not that I'd actually describe us as 'poor'.

If teams play that defensively against us with 11 men, as Bury were doing, we could continue to struggle to break teams down at home.

We need a different plan for playing against 10 men, because we haven't looked threatening enough.

It would help if we wasted no time in putting good footballers in the wide positions. Chapman made quite a difference, but he should've been on at half time. Done is also a waste of space playing in a team who are dominating the ball, so he should be taken off earlier as well. It also highlights the need for additions in January, especially in the wide areas. We need more options. We need one who can beat a defender.

 

[Stretch]

Knill....

What about him? Sorry, I was too busy doing back flips up and down the Westfield steps whilst bareing my arse to that Bury wanker in a suit, to notice anything else that was going on.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

If that doesn't jog the memories of promotion winning teams of the past.......

 

[CaptainMorgans]

20 attempts, 1 goal, not really a massive plus in my eyes!

I get what you're all saying. But we've had a goal chalked off for offside, a couple off the line, hit the woodwork, missed some sitters. I think we actually did break them down on a number of occasions it's just poor finishing. Maybe Matt Done's day is finally up now?