The team gives its all every week, love Mick's general laid back enthusiasm (if that makes sense), he's starting to get our more creative players involved.
Maybe it's been an issue for a while - I wasn't really counting - but in Mick's games to date the number of even half chances, let alone clear ones, we create is alarmingly small.
Apart from the great attempt we put into the last quarter at Swansea, and the obvious conclusion to Hudd I'd be fairly confident we haven't managed more than 5 goal attempts per game. Tonight I can only remember 2, plus the late goalmouth scrambling.
And in our situation that isn't good enough. We've always been a team that creates, granted we don't take nearly enough of them, but to see us struggle to get a handful of even half chances is as worrying as it is saddening.
I hope Mick doesn't go into his shell after this. They were better than us and probably deserved the win, but they weren't that good. And apart from half the team switching off to allow a nothing ball past them for the goal, we could have come out with what would be a good point.
I'm sure it was GTF who said while he had that Welsh team the other year, if his side hasn't had at least 10 shots on goal per half, then he wants to know why. Yes players will make individual mistakes, give the ball away etc, we did it all night tonight, but we generally ride through that and keep going. But if we don't shoot, we don't score. Has to improve.
Maybe it's been an issue for a while - I wasn't really counting - but in Mick's games to date the number of even half chances, let alone clear ones, we create is alarmingly small.
Apart from the great attempt we put into the last quarter at Swansea, and the obvious conclusion to Hudd I'd be fairly confident we haven't managed more than 5 goal attempts per game. Tonight I can only remember 2, plus the late goalmouth scrambling.
And in our situation that isn't good enough. We've always been a team that creates, granted we don't take nearly enough of them, but to see us struggle to get a handful of even half chances is as worrying as it is saddening.
I hope Mick doesn't go into his shell after this. They were better than us and probably deserved the win, but they weren't that good. And apart from half the team switching off to allow a nothing ball past them for the goal, we could have come out with what would be a good point.
I'm sure it was GTF who said while he had that Welsh team the other year, if his side hasn't had at least 10 shots on goal per half, then he wants to know why. Yes players will make individual mistakes, give the ball away etc, we did it all night tonight, but we generally ride through that and keep going. But if we don't shoot, we don't score. Has to improve.