"Fixing the defence" was always a bit of a red herring

The goals we were conceding were mainly due to individual errors. I was always confident that would improve, because those players wouldn't have reached this level if they kept making those sort of errors each week.
The main problem was and is our lack of anything up front that is Prem standard. In those 10 games after the restart last time we scored 1 solitary goal. If we had "fixed the defence" and kept a clean sheet in every single one of those games we would still have been comfortably relegated. We haven't addressed that problem at all really. People say Farke can now turn his attention to scoring goals, but when he does he'll still find that our striking options are Pukki, Sargeant & Idah. I simply cannot see how that does not guarantee relegation?

Posted By: mr carra on October 16th 2021 at 18:45:59

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Simon’s Saturday night mid-drinking session assessment (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 18:26:40
- 👍 I'm on the Malbec (n/m) (NCFC) - dr fanta, Oct 16, 18:51:05
  - I’m on the Castillo Y Gay! (n/m) (NCFC) - fareastcanary, Oct 16, 19:50:17
  - 👍👍 (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 19:37:53
- Improved defensively (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 16, 18:35:11
  - "Fixing the defence" was always a bit of a red herring (NCFC) - mr carra, Oct 16, 18:45:59
    - Just not finishing bottom would seem like a great achievement now (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 16, 18:48:12
  - Yep (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 18:44:06
    - How the hell we do that without suddenly leaking goals again (NCFC) - jamesward, Oct 16, 18:48:48
      - Tzolis for Sargent (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 18:52:01
        
        Agree, and I suppose at some point he’ll have no (NCFC) - jamesward, Oct 16, 18:53:47
        
        Given where we were, I can understand that (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 19:02:25
    - We did effectively play a flat back 5 .. (NCFC) - Gob on a Stick, Oct 16, 18:47:47
      - I fully agree - been banging the drum for the three defensive midfielders to be tweaked (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 18:49:15
        
        Not a chance he changes the team next week (NCFC) - jamesward, Oct 16, 18:51:22
        
        That’s a bit different (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 16, 19:38:37
  - and that is our problem. (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Oct 16, 18:43:50

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