Scoring goals is the major problem - just think Whittaker is now joint top scorer with 2 goals after a quarter of the season. We don’t have anyone who looks capable of scoring 15- 20 goals this season. Why do most forwards insist on going for power rather than passing the ball into the net.
We have a very settled defensive group of players but no obvious choice of who the best 3 players are from a group of 7-8. No one has emerged as a must start for every game.
Hope Edwards can address this.
Philip of Huddersfield
@philip-of-huddersfield but yet we have ten names on the goal scoring sheet, personally I would rather see the goals shared out across the team than to be relying on a 15/20 goal striker, we have had one of them over the past three seasons or so and it hasn't particularly helped.
I think there is a lot of judging going on with Coventry, who are scoring goals for fun, but take them out of it and look at the totals for the rest of the league and we actually arent faring too badly, I read somewhere we are the fifth highest scorers in the league, it is actually joint fifth but still only 4 goals behind the second top scoring team in the league, its not all bad ( and maybe if we had decent referees who give penalties ) we could be one or two goals behind the second stop scorers ( obviously that is scoring them penalties ).
hi, thanks for your interesting comments. Last night was a bit tense as we missed chances against a poor team especially in the first half and it would have been a real disappointment if Boro hadn’t won. The ominous signs were Bannan who came more into the game with his accurate passing.
Conway is frustrating as we all recognise his physical efforts for the team but he is not often close to his fellow striker as he’s charging all over the pitch.It will be difficult to form a relationship with another striker. But he should be told to stop diving. If a penalty appeal is a bit 50/50 then inevitably referees will not give the penalty.
philip of Huddersfield
I have no doubt, Philip, that forwards who are seen to "go to ground very easily" will be noted (and maybe discussed) by referees. Sometimes that my result in penalties being denied which we think should be given. It is as if the burden of proof has been reversed for those players when possible penalty decisions are made. So it's not a good idea to become thought of as a diver.
Having said which, the decsion to deny a penalty last night against Sheffield Wednesday was so ridiculous as almost to be laughable. It was plain as a pikestaff. Nobody in the pub laughed, though!
@philip-of-huddersfield fully agree about Conway Phil, I mentioned after the Stoke game he had created a rod for his own back with his antics and it would be silly of us not to think that referees talk to each other, they plant that seed of doubt in each other's mind around the integrity of Conway going to ground but yet it looks to have gone the other way now with Conway denied two blatant penalties and being booked for his troubles on one of them.
Last night was particularly strange as if it wasn't a foul then Conway should have been carded, the referee was looking straight at so no defence that he didn't see it, was just a very wrong decision.
I also agree about the game, lets be honest for the majority of the second half, apart from a ten minute spell, they only looked to be one team who was going to score and it wasn't us, in fact I was muttering at the television which one of these teams isnt getting paid !!
But thankfully, we had a very strong defence that did their job, I still think last season we wouldn't have won that game.