. will we still hope to keep a clean sheet and score from a set-piece?
Its how most teams get wins (Arsenal very proficient at it last season).
Is it boring
Yep
Will it get us up the table away from trouble - Yep
Id love a couple of seasons of boring, uninspiring football. This is the building blocks for a better future.
We all want excitement, but we have sailed close to the wind too many times recently.
It just takes one season to be luckless
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And that would finish us
Scot x
Seemed to be rubbish every pre season and absolutely fine for the season.
And every professional footballer will say its all about building fitness and nothing else.
Has anyone ever done any sort of analysis on this, i.e. how have we actually started in the league in comparison to our pre-season results/opposition? Genuinely curious.
Last few seasons may be a bad example given what a basket case we've been but IIRC we've had some awful preseasons under Moyes and came out flying once the league kicked off.
Undercooked again...playing pardon the pun " pub teams"....Q Dyche after Brighton saying we are some distance away
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