Mazza01 wrote:Walsallone wrote:Blimey I agree with you Phil...hence my comment earlier that this was a bad defeat! it has happened too many times this season with points thrown away by individual errors.
Nail on the head Walsallone , we literally do just throw games away. Either the game is gone within the first 20 minutes or we concede immediately after scoring .. our game management is very poor hence our terrible away form.
Also Edwards now being injured is very concerning he does the work of 2 men at times.
The point about game management is spot on. In three of our last four games the score line has been 2-1 going into the last ten minutes. We were ahead in one and behind in the other two. In only one of those games was there an equaliser whilst in the other two, the game was seen our quite comfortably.
At Blackpool the turn of events from the moment we won a free-kick wide on the half way line to their equaliser was laughable. About 15 seconds worth of farce. Whilst Blackburn had weathered a storm during the second half against us they manufactured a last ten minutes where nothing happened other than time drifting away. Last night it looked like only one team was going to score after the delay for snow clearance- and it wasn’t us.
We just don’t seem to know how to deal with a limited number of scenarios at the end of a game. If we’re winning we get caught in between the whole corner flag routine and just carrying on as normal. If we’re losing we seem as concerned about losing by two than we do about really going for an equaliser.
Passion, energy and all the other stuff he comes out with are laudable attributes but without any semblance of plan they become bereft cliche more befitting of someone sat in row F than in the dougout actually trying to manufacture a win in a professional game of football.