Performance

[stainrodisalegend]

I am in no way saying we were particularly good, but we battled away in truly terrible conditions against a highly motivated home team, and kept a clean sheet.

We then went at them in the second half, and took the game away from them efficiently.

I don't really see how we could complain about that game.

Think you are talking up the opposition tbh. They are pretty well in free-fall and let in five the other day and had very little confidence plus lots of players out. take ince out of their side and they are poor. as richard said i find us very unconvincing - you can count on one hand the number of good performances this season. I also think we have been very, very lucky this season on a number of occasions. I fully accept there is a team in there trying to get out, but I will be interested to see how we look against Leicester and in particular against Derby who look like the in-form side and don't think will be as profligate as some teams we have stolen points from this season. Who knows, maybe that second half performance will suddenly give us the confidence to get out of our shell.

[kron-1664]

Think you are talking up the opposition tbh. They are pretty well in free-fall and let in five the other day and had very little confidence plus lots of players out. take ince out of their side and they are poor. as richard said i find us very unconvincing - you can count on one hand the number of good performances this season. I also think we have been very, very lucky this season on a number of occasions. I fully accept there is a team in there trying to get out, but I will be interested to see how we look against Leicester and in particular against Derby who look like the in-form side and don't think will be as profligate as some teams we have stolen points from this season. Who knows, maybe that second half performance will suddenly give us the confidence to get out of our shell.

its not luck , its championship finishing. Mistakes are not punished like in the Prem. We were poor first half, they were closing us down and not letting us play, 2nd half upped the tempo and when Krancar came on for the ineffective Oneil we were in control. We also have a regular scorer in Austin which is great considering our clean sheets. Top of the league for a reason, our team is better than the rest so far.

[Shania]

I am in no way saying we were particularly good, but we battled away in truly terrible conditions against a highly motivated home team, and kept a clean sheet.

We then went at them in the second half, and took the game away from them efficiently.

I don't really see how we could complain about that game.

Make no mistake about it, I am very happy With the result and the way we turned it around in the second half.
But in the first half we seemed to have no plan or urgeny in Our play.. In patches, we actually misplaced every pass we wanted to make.

[jfish]

Think you are talking up the opposition tbh. They are pretty well in free-fall and let in five the other day and had very little confidence plus lots of players out. take ince out of their side and they are poor. as richard said i find us very unconvincing - you can count on one hand the number of good performances this season. I also think we have been very, very lucky this season on a number of occasions. I fully accept there is a team in there trying to get out, but I will be interested to see how we look against Leicester and in particular against Derby who look like the in-form side and don't think will be as profligate as some teams we have stolen points from this season. Who knows, maybe that second half performance will suddenly give us the confidence to get out of our shell.

Jesus how about just enjoying we're top.

[QPRDave]

I am in no way saying we were particularly good, but we battled away in truly terrible conditions against a highly motivated home team, and kept a clean sheet.

We then went at them in the second half, and took the game away from them efficiently.

I don't really see how we could complain about that game.

Yes ..that's what i was thinking. Maybe should have re-titled the thread Battling Performance

[Brightsparx]

Well said fish. Need the place rocking next week get behind the side from the off and keep loftus Rd a fortress

[Rangers77]

Jesus how about just enjoying we're top.

Good advice, but one couldn't enjoy that first half. Conditions didn't help to be sure. Yossi in for Jenas and Niko for O'Neil next week (assuming AJs out and we play 4231.....) and I'll be very happy staying at the top and five points in front of Leicester.

[QPRDave]

Think you are talking up the opposition tbh. They are pretty well in free-fall and let in five the other day and had very little confidence plus lots of players out. take ince out of their side and they are poor. as richard said i find us very unconvincing - you can count on one hand the number of good performances this season. I also think we have been very, very lucky this season on a number of occasions. I fully accept there is a team in there trying to get out, but I will be interested to see how we look against Leicester and in particular against Derby who look like the in-form side and don't think will be as profligate as some teams we have stolen points from this season. Who knows, maybe that second half performance will suddenly give us the confidence to get out of our shell.

Leicester i am worried about. I do wonder sometimes i have to admit whether we should just lump one over the top for Charlie, Phillips, AJ or Hoilett etc to chase, and at the same time turn the oppo defence around.
It seems we play lots of possession football and other teams just go long and get in behind us. Maybe we need a HH type striker good in the air and a battler when results need to be dug out

[superhoop67]

people were saying before the season started ,"see how this side shape up on a cold and windy Blackpool in December" well they done very well ,thank you

[Wolfy]

Spot on.

We sure have our fair bit of luck and may it continue.

[QPRDave]

Make your own luck don't they say?

[Brightsparx]

Happens in all leagues even premier art of winning games ugly to win championships

[QPRDave]

Happens in all leagues even premier art of winning games ugly to win championships

spot on

[Yousef]

As Harry stated, he asked the players to play FOOTBALL in the 2nd half and that what they exactly did in contrary to first half's hoofball. We have the players with skills to play proper football and control games. We should not fear any team and keep playing the way we did at Blackpool.

[Yousef]

we were terrible mate. As the Sky report makes clear, they had four good chances. We were let off (as we were last week) by terrible finishing. Kind of performance that would have been absolutely murdered in the Prem.

Agree on our first half poor performance and the chance Ince missed as we could have been down If it was in the Premier League but If we go up this kind of mistakes will hopefully not happen.