Fearing the worst (24 replies)
So far this season we have 35 points.
I thought I would break it down like this:
1st Coventry - Home - 3 points; Away - 0 points,
2nd Boro - Home - not played; Away - 0 points
3rd Ipswich - Home - 1 point; Away - not played
4th Millwall - Home - 3 points; Away - not played
5th Hull - Home - 0 points; Away - not played
6th Preston - Home - not played, Away - 3 points
7th Stoke - Home - not played, Away - 0 points
8th Watford - Home - 3 points, Away - 0 points
9th Bristol City - Home - not played, Away - 0 points
10th Wrexham - Home - not played, Away - 1 point
11th QPR - Home - not played, Away - 0 points
12th Derby - Home - 1 point, Away - not played
13th Leicester - Home - not played, Away - 0 points
14th Ourselves - N/A
15th Southampton - Home - 1 point, Away - 0 points
16th Swansea - Home - 3 points, Away - 1 point
17th Sheff Utd - Home - not played, Away - 0 points
18th Charlton - Home - 1 point, Away - not played
19th West Brom - Home - not played, Away - 1 point
20th Blackburn - Home - not played, Away - 3 points
21st Portsmouth - Home - 3 points, Away - not played
22nd Norwich - Home 3 points, Away - not played
23rd Oxford - Home 3 points, Away - not played
24th Sheff Weds, Home 1 point, Away - not played
Of our 35 points 26 have come at home. 26 points from 13 games
Away from home we have 9 points from 14 games.
We only have 15 points against the top half of the league from 14 games.
20 of our points have come against 15th - 24th.
We have all of the bottom 4 to play away from home.
I don’t think we have an away issue as such, I think we have a quality issue. What I mean by quality issue is that some have been willing to sweep the away form under the carpet because we’ve mostly faced teams in the top half of the league away from home.
If we start to stutter at home (which we might) against the top half teams and we do really have an away problem which means we drop points against teams lower than us, we will be in trouble.
We still have 6 of the top 11 to play at home which will be tough games. We also have Leicester who seem to have found some form.
Our tactics are one dimensional and we clearly need a midfield 3 away from home.
I think without adequate signings and actual tactical changes from Davies we are sleepwalking into a relegation battle.
Edit - relegation battle is probably too strongly worded/extreme, I think there’s a real chance we finish 16th-20th.