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Good point, well made! :)
I don't know if we're trying to play a bit more expansively, whether I felt more assured with McLaughlin than with Burge or whether it's the difference of watching on TV compared to being at the match (not being able to see who's round on the cover etc) but I feel far more nervous in the games this season about us defensively.
Probably Burge.
I don't know if it's because of how we're set up or because we've got good defenders but I suppose they have to be good players to play the system they're in.
But either way 33 goals in 40 games is an excellent record.
 
I'll probably get pelters for this but are we even that strong defensively? Hanlan gave us (well Wright) the run around and should have seen us down to ten men when still a goal down. We looked ragged in the first half an hour against Peterborough when they attacked us at pace and they missed a couple of relatively easy chances (I appreciate that's the norm in this league) and then Charlton and Oxford were utterly toothless so it was hard to gauge (maybe I should give us more credit for that).

I just feel whenever we're attacked with pace now we don't look as assured as most people seem to say we are. It will be interesting to see how we fare against Swindon as from what @Swindon On Tour says they play an expansive attacking game and have pace in abundance. Exactly what I think we struggle against so it will be a good test.

Definitely have pace up front and out wide.
It’s when we lose it in dangerous areas. Last season we kept the ball better.
Get our squad back and we will be OK. Not forgetting should have been 4-0 up against Peterborough in the first 20 mins and should have taken the lead early on yesterday.
We will come at you from the off but need to score. You are more than capable of exploiting our mistakes. We just look a work in progress side and a perfect time to play us with an injury crisis. Only knows what patched up team we will put out next Saturday.
 
Third year of League One and I can see why the strikers in this league are not playing in the second tier (never mind the PL).
Also some really awful keepers including several who have played for us.

Aye and 2 of the worst keepers we’ve had in the last 30 years are on the books of clubs in the premier league and championship, bizarrely.
 
There's certainly no-one to fear and we'll be right up there. If we only had a striker to add a few goals, I reckon we'd win it comfortably as our defence is head and shoulders the best in the division
 
Amazed that even after this solid start, and yet to concede a goal from open play, people still try and put the team down by calling them not good enough, a clueless manager etc.

It's honestly baffling.. If this was Jack Ross making this start, they'd be loving it.
 
Well, look at his career record then judge him....36% win ratio. He was abysmal from the start last year. I'd loved to be proved wrong but I'm not holding my breath.

His record here is 42% at the moment. Will Griggs record elsewhere in scoring goals isn't exactly relevant here is it? Parkinson's overall average is often skewed by taking teams up as well. At Colchester for instance his record is 42%, but then that would have been a touch higher if he'd not spent half a season in the Championship with them and he took them into the Championship despite them having the lowest average crowd in League One.

He had a short poor spell at Hull in the Championship and was sacked as a result, 20.83 percent.

He took over a struggling Charlton in the Championship and done shit initially and they were relegated. He then made the play offs in league one, then it petered out. 38.6 % but around a quarter of that time again in the Championship.

Bradford started in league two, he got them promoted to league one, plenty of decent cup runs including a final and got close to promotion to the championship getting in the league one play offs. His win percentage is quite low at 36.86%, but there's one promotion in there, a cup final and getting to the league one play offs.

We all pretty much know what happened at Bolton, but it's a promotion despite being under a transfer embargo, he then kept them up and then afterwards suffered a relegation when the shit hit the fan. Not really sure why 31.21, with promotion, two seasons in the Championship and no money to spend is viewed as a bad thing given where Bolton are now.


Just spouting win percentages is f***ing bollocks and takes no account of context.
It's honestly baffling.. If this was Jack Ross making this start, they'd be loving it.

People bought into the new 'progressive' manager bullshit, despite what was on the pitch and how he put together his side telling them it wasn't. At St Mirren it was pass the ball to Morgan and keep it tight elsewhere, here it was pass the ball to McGeady and keep it tight elsewhere.

Realistically Ross was as dour as Parkinson and his football wasn't any better either. Parkinson wouldn't be my choice but at least the team look like a team and you can see what they're trying to do, even if like with Ross' football it isn't easy on the eye.

It's also mental that people are still suggesting that Parkinson's style is to blame for the lack of output from Wyke and Grigg, despite neither of them being regular scorers and being inept under Ross too.
 
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