league 1.. played 83 conceded 126 goals

Broadbent has been consistently good. Cannot understand why he was dropped.

I noticed you didn't post this after our previous 3 games.......?
We lose and we're dooooooooomed!!!

No doubt if we score less and so concede less, you'd be moaning about the lack of goals.

Cheer up it might never happen....... we are mid table, with our crowds and spend that is where we should be at best,Stop chucking the dummy out!

He’s only pointed out that we concede a lot of goals.
the statistics don’t lie.
We’ve scored a lot too , even having lost Bodin, Taylor next time we lose a scorer we might not be so lucky in terms of still scoring.
I think our defence needs to be better if we!te going to finish top six next season.
Perhaps the players are good enough but the defensive coaching isn’t , maybe Craig can finish his badges and improve what we’ve got I don’t know but our defence is way off where it needs to be if we’re to become a top six team.
Have a go at me too if you like just telling it like it is.
UTG

I get B.Bs point though. This season we have scored 53 goals, Shrewsbury who are second and Plymouth who are 6th have scored 49 and 47 respectively, Plymouth are the only team in the top 6 who have a negative GD. Scunny who are 5th have scored 55.

Clearly we have no problems scoring but if only we could tighten up our defence a little then we would see a massive leap up the league. For example if we convert some of our 17 losses so far to 10 losses turning them to draws giving us 12 draws instead of 5 we have achieved so far we would currently be sitting 6th.

Looking at some of the soft goals that we have conceded this year that has cost us points I would say that is an achievable thing for DC to put right but also shows how well DC is doing with this group of players.

I still don’t think Craig is the right CB for us though!

Ian Holloway's team.
We don't have very solid fullbacks , have picked the wrong keeper for most of the season. And now DC plays to shortish CBs when he had Broadbent playing better than better. So you can say we haven't got the players but the manager should also take some blame.
Going forwards we are a very attractive team to watch but DC needs to recruit better at the back and stick with his "best players ".

The one I can't explain is why when we're playing two short centre backs do we sit back on the wings and invite crosses into the box. I'd love to know how many of our goals have come from wide men being allowed to whip the ball in because the left/right back sat off the man and let them put the ball into the box.

Surely the fact he brought Craig in suggests he did see the problem? Although why he brought in a 6 foot CB rather than a lump of a CH is a mystery, you can only assume it's the best he could get for the money the owners gave him to spend in January.

Are our players really suited to constant changes in personnel and formations? How many goals conceded have actually been caused by inviting pressure and overcrowding the penalty area rather than stopping the crosses coming in. I often wonder what we actually do on the training field because we get so many basics wrong.