Although it's hard to compete with clubs that have significantly bigger budgets and som e better quality players, we can still do better by learning how to see out games where we're leading and how to break down stubborn defences.
........and how to score from corners
All that, nail on head pal.
Seeing out games to me says lack of leadership on the park, a proper captain would have been telling Norwood (v Rotherham) he's got bags of time, get your foot on the ball and play it out, or telling Henderson (v Leeds) he's not got plenty of time and to put it in the stand. A better and bigger version of Jake Wright perhaps. We need the cool head, talking leaders to see a game out, I'd say Coutts back in would be an idea in this direction too.
As most of us know we need a striker that can conjure a goal out of nothing, I'm thinking another Kabba or Webber, the former someone who loved playing on the shoulder of a centre half (perhaps Defoe for 6 months if he's still got his pace), the other option would be a big striker who could net one (probably a header) from a set play or a punt into the box, another Shipperley or Brian Deane. If Wilder can't secure the services of a striker from the higher echelon, perhaps he should have a few punts from lower down the leagues.
Pre-Wilder we struggled to score from corners mainly because we didn't have too many big lads in the team, then he got Ebanks-Landell, O'Connell, Clarke, Hanson. This season we're back down to one naturally big lad, O'Connell, perhaps an additional big lad centre half (with leadership qualities) and a decent target man (with leadership qualities) would solve a few problems the current team have got!
