I agree it's easy to be downhearted after a loss. We've had a great away run over the last year and it's probably made the few times we do lose harder to take.
We will do well to finish in the top two and even if we do it's unusual for a team to get there and not lose away from home here and there.
One thing I did note was that in an interview before the game Blackwell commented that Swansea's style and formation was too predictable last year and caused their drop off towards the end of the year. I thought that was rich coming from him considering many would say exactly those things about us. It's very hard to knock the away formation or tactics given we've done so well out of them but by the same sentiments as the above comments I think we're becoming a little too predictable away from home. Nearly all blades could say in advance how we'll line up tactically away from home from week to week and other than a few personel changes we'd be very close to the money. If we can do that then I can't see why the other club's scouts wouldn't be able to.
Also my issue is that we don't seem to change this style at all depending on our opposition, I'd have sooner seen two up front given Swansea's absymal form so far and playing against Burnley each time last year we showed exactly the same inability to change to fit the opposition - they had the beating of us the first time and we didn't change a thing in the other games.
If you hadn't guessed I'm not a huge fan of Blackwell, whilst I do think we could have much worse I believe a better manager would have had us promoted last year, wouldn't have left us so crucially short in vital areas and would have us entertaining a bit more.
That said I just don't understand some of the comments you see directly after the game without the benefit of being there or even having seen for yourself the highlights.
We're in for a reasonable season where we'll finish in the playoffs unless something drastic changes in the Jan transfer window. We'll have some good wins, many draws and a few bad losses on the way. As a fan it's in our interest to try and prepare ourselves for this and take a reasonably consistent approach to each result (aside from the two victories we'll have got against the pigs by the end of the year). It's something I'm having to teach myself but I'm almost certain if you can't take this approach, take losses as a disaster and wins as a sign we'll walk the league then following the blades is less likely to give you enjoyment than it is lead you into full on Bi-Polar overload.
Hopefully a decent result against what would seem to be a self-combusting Ipswich will give us our next fix.
