Ineptitude or coincidence.....

[Reg Smeeton]

I prefer accuracy...and am content that our 7 points from six games if maintained consistently through the season will see us with 54 points when rounded up.....sufficient in most cases to stay up.

Reg, when was our last Away win?  I'm faily sure it was some time ago now, in fact, isn't our away record pretty awful?

This one puzzles me, why are teams, generally, so much worse away from home?  Obviously the crowd will play some factor in the performance of players, but this to me shows just how much of the game is in the head of Managers and Players.  With the exception of artificial pitches, and grounds in strange climates (grimsby's), why do players let the whole issue of the game being away impact so greatly on the way they play?

 One issue you've not mentioned is travelling on the day...I'm guessing after a game on Sat....ours had Sunday off and travelled up on Monday setting off early....not the best preparation.....it is odd, but King has  a hand in something of an STFC rarity, a season when we won more away than at home.....00/01.  A similar season was 95/96, when away teams just came to defend.

  We arre starting to develop a serious psychological problem....maybe King should go all out attack at Walsall....Swansea put 5 past them recently.....

[Whits]

maybe King should go all out attack at Walsall

if i don't see 4 strikers starting i will be disapointed, i'm a big fan of the 4-2-4  

[larwood]

I think walsall are maybe a bit like us,able to score but also dodgy at the back,nothing seems to have changed,wasn't the score last season 3-2?
About the walsall-swansea game,merson didn't half have a bitch about the swans,saying they won't do anything this season and they got lucky[yeah five times!].Hopefully we get the same kind of luck on saturday.

[sonicyouth]

Personally I think it's a coincidence, I don't like looking back to last season as we've got almost an entirely new squad and whilst the players don't really need time to 'gel', you have to let things settle down a bit.

That said, we better score an away goal soon before it starts playing on everyone's minds.

[Spud]

I think walsall are maybe a bit like us,able to score but also dodgy at the back,nothing seems to have changed,wasn't the score last season 3-2?
About the walsall-swansea game,merson didn't half have a bitch about the swans,saying they won't do anything this season and they got lucky[yeah five times!].Hopefully we get the same kind of luck on saturday.

Yes and i think we were 2-0 up aswell. :|

[Reg Smeeton]

I think walsall are maybe a bit like us,able to score but also dodgy at the back,nothing seems to have changed,wasn't the score last season 3-2?
About the walsall-swansea game,merson didn't half have a bitch about the swans,saying they won't do anything this season and they got lucky[yeah five times!].Hopefully we get the same kind of luck on saturday.

Yes and i think we were 2-0 up aswell. :|

 That was Gurney's last game in his previous incarnation, he was crap,  didn't look as if his mind was on the job (well actually his mind probably was thinking of being on the job)

 It was also the point where Nicho, went from being the best young left back in England to bag of dung.

 Our downfall was orchestrated by Iffy who was doing tactics for Merson, who kept consulting him from the pitch......does Iffy do our tactics in the absence of Reeeeeeeves?

[reeves4england]

Having said that, at the end of last season we were hardly playing out of our skins for points...

I think we will get a few goals this week, 2 atleast.

[DV]

we dont score many away because we got up there, try to shut up shop and steal a 1-0...but our defence is shit.

[Bedford Red]

I prefer accuracy...and am content that our 7 points from six games if maintained consistently through the season will see us with 54 points when rounded up.....sufficient in most cases to stay up.

Reg, when was our last Away win?  I'm faily sure it was some time ago now, in fact, isn't our away record pretty awful?

This one puzzles me, why are teams, generally, so much worse away from home?  Obviously the crowd will play some factor in the performance of players, but this to me shows just how much of the game is in the head of Managers and Players.  With the exception of artificial pitches, and grounds in strange climates (grimsby's), why do players let the whole issue of the game being away impact so greatly on the way they play?

 One issue you've not mentioned is travelling on the day...I'm guessing after a game on Sat....ours had Sunday off and travelled up on Monday setting off early....not the best preparation.....it is odd, but King has  a hand in something of an STFC rarity, a season when we won more away than at home.....00/01.  A similar season was 95/96, when away teams just came to defend.

  We arre starting to develop a serious psychological problem....maybe King should go all out attack at Walsall....Swansea put 5 past them recently.....

95-96 we got 46 points both home and away, but as you say Reg won more away than home, 13 away to 12 home. And 10 home draws because teams shut up shop to get a point.

I hope we get 3 points on Saturday, but at least score because these things do play on players/managers minds. Look at Sunderland, 19 games (i think) without a win in the Premiership. Not in a row as they've been out of it for two years but still gets quoted a lot and is bound to play on their minds.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Sunderland have actually lost 19 premiership games in a row I believe, 24 without a win.

[Bedford Red]

Blimey, it's even worse then, that's bound to be in the back of their minds when they play every week.