01 Sep 2018 13:14:28
Bloody international break! Flip side is that we have a rest and Bielsa has another two weeks to work with most of the players and to analyse what has gone before.

For me two areas that we need to improve on to make a sustained challenge, our performance against the top six and that against the dirtier, tougher, park the bus type teams.

On the first, last year, I think we got 9 points against the top 6 and 1 win. Always difficult to know how the top six will shake up, but if you take Stoke, Derby, Swansea and Borough, that's 8 points, 2 wins and no losses by the international break. No bad start. Like to see us against Villa, Forest, Brentford and West Brom, but there seems to be progress.

Now on the second, Preston showed how tough we can find it against this type of team, ok the B team but our A teams have struggled in the same way in the past. The difference hopefully is Bielsa, but I think we still need to put this one to bed and guess what, we have Millwall away and then Preston at home and Bielsa has two weeks to think about it. I think, strangely enough that if we can deliver two back to back performances against those two teams and 6 points, then we should start to feel that top six is definitely on!

1.) 01 Sep 2018
01 Sep 2018 18:18:24
On the other side hopefully we could get Forshaw and Izzy settled in .