metallilad said:
And yet we still finished best of the rest. Maybe your right and we are susceptible to the ball over the top but we had a lesser attack last season to what we have now. Also we have a better keeper than we had last season now so if the ball comes over he would probably deal with it along better than we did last season. We are going to lose the odd match and we are gonna get caught out by the long ball from time to time like we did last season but I personally think that we're in a better position to still get results out of matches simply because going forward we look so dangerous.
Fully agree with a better keeper and that we have Naylor as better defensive cover in front of the CH s
However the keeper is still learning his role as sweeper/keeper and that has showed in a couple of the friendlies.
League position showed that we finished best of the rest but goals conceded put us in 7th position (just)
I like the fact that we have several players that can score goals but we all know sometimes these goals ‘dry up’ when this happens we need to keep a clean sheet ,get the point and move on and to me this is where we are vulnerable.
If we smash the league by totally out scoring the opposition there will be nobody happier than me BUT I see this defensive fragility as something that will cost us more points that we cannot afford to lose in what could well be quite an open league.