Douglas Higginbottom wrote:
Better get used to it.We will have such weeks time and again every season and we need to get similar results more often than not. But that mustn't allow us to get sloppy when we have the ordinary weeks with no so called big games.We need to roll over on the teams at the bottom end of the table.
Amen. The one thing the rags have been much better than us at this season and have been good at for many years - if you beat the dross home and away, the results against the big teams become less relevant. Even if we'd beat them at home this year and taken 6 points again, we'd still be 6 points behind.
We need to find whatever is needed to beat teams week in and week out, whether that be a different style, different players or different attitude. I suspect if we started games like we finished them or like we started against Chelsea, we'd be 2 up in the first 20 minutes in most games. Then you can manage the game out. The slow starts we often do don't help against the smaller teams, as it gives them something to cling to.
PS It has been a great week though.