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Do you honestly believed the team "played for a draw" against Crawley and Wigan?

Poor teams turning up and stifling higher placed teams in order to gain points for themselves should be outlawed. It is ruining football. (Sorry Gaz...)

We may have failed to score but the idea we were playing for a draw is risible. Not the game I watched.

ah but will you offset those against games such as the Mansfield home game where we were lucky to pick up all 3 points?

Morley used to sit back and allow Josh to go forward, and after doing that for a few weeks he was really effective, hopefully he can have the trust in Xavi to start doing that more.

The bed wetting stuff is a bit of a cheap dig but gets the point across, its not a majority but we've seen so many comments this season that have turned out to be pish days or minutes later, some folk would have booted out all of the new signings and the manager at half time in the first game of the season, if not the first game of last season.

I like that air of confusion, was out on a jog before and I was thinking about Wycombe, Birmingham away on Saturday and so on.

If you'd of said to anyone on here we'd be 2nd behind Birmingham after 32 games with 64 points, 3 ahead of the team in 3rd and 7 points ahead of 4th with a game in hand we'd all be over the moon.

Yet somehow it doesn't feel like that, for me anyway, I still haven't ordered tickets for Saturday yet and it was one of the first games I looked for when the fixtures come out. I've got to make a decision later in the week, go the match or take my girls team.

I couldn't get the game Saturday but watched it and It wasn't great. Reading the match day thread was even more depressing.

Exactly this. Except he’s made a point of it. Admittedly he was answering a question, but still.

I’m probably reading too much into it. It does make you wonder how long he’ll be around though.

that pitch was the worst at a pro ground I have ever seen live lol

I think a lot of fans don't have what it takes for the run-in

It's not going to get any easier. Plenty of games on a knife-edge going into the last 15 minutes, do we push for a winner or try and hang onto the point? What are the other teams around us doing? etc etc

You can't be having a meltdown every time we don't win

We build out as a 4-2 now like you say with Xavier and Scowen deeper. It’s way more defensively solid - we’ve only let a total of 0.74 XG against us in the last three league games. I know it was against sides that are fairly ineffective up front, but that’s still an outstanding defensive display. Trouble is that we aren’t hitting the net at the other end. Xavier’s set pieces look promising though. That should offset some of our poor open-play chance creation. I know it’s cliched, but we really need to turn these draws into wins.

It was really noticeable on Saturday that both Scowen and Simons were predominantly sitting deep - just in front of the back four. This approach is consistent with the stronger defensive and less effective attacking performances you describe.