I'm not actually sure. It improved as we had no forward movement and were set up not to concede so yeah it was f*cking brilliant wasn't it
The idea here is that under Mowbray we were far too open and probably didn't work hard enough when we lost the ball. We were thus really susceptible to the counter and a couple of passes cutting us apart.
But because we had a canny start to the season it didn't really show we weren't that good defensively, as the season wore on it became very apparent we were easy to play against and quite open and it's one reason why Mowbray was let go and the defensive record slipped a lot during that period.
That was the point I was making. That some had been using the stats from the early on to justify how as a team we were good defensively and the longer that went on the worse we got showing that maybe we weren't actually that good.
What happened after that was Beale had us playing compact with little width on the counter and Dodds was quite negative and there was no forward runs or movement, so yes ultimately the goals for and against dried up (apart from Blackburn and Southamoton games) and the 'against' goals didn't slowed down, but it wasn't balanced.
is not about fire 
