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Sacrilege I know but maybe that is why Webster was purchased. We did not spend that much money on a back up player?

Agreed, we seemed to play with fear against everyone last season and generally only stepped it up when we went behind

High scoring games are an excitement we haven’t had for a while too. I am going expecting no more than survival this season. Setting sights low whilst being entertained is good enough for me Gonna be interesting to see how we react as fans and players to getting stuffed now and again

Going well but I know know that we are going to get some thumpings along the way. Let’s see how we feel after a couple of them. Bournemouth apart we haven’t had one for a long time.

Yep, credit it where it’s due but every team in the latter part of last season seemed to have a manager who outthought CH in tactics :shrug: The time for change was right imo, that does not take away from what CH did for us for all but the last few months of his tenure. Yes we could have used...

You make some good points but we are coming at this from a different direction. Would I rather lose 5-1 to Spurs and maybe win or lose 3-2 against Saints than lose 1-0 after not having a shot against Spurs and then grind out a 1-1 against Saints. Yes, yes I would. We have more chance of winning...

Care to name games we took the game to the opposition that ended well? Players didn’t have a clue how to play attacking football and ended up getting beaten is my memory. Defend defend defend was very firmly engrained in the players’ minds.

Am I wrong?

They under performed because they were shackled. There was only plan A, defend in depth and hope for a breakaway, which if it happened resulted in in depth defending for the rest of the game.

Were loose on the NSC header needs replacing with Shackles Off

Yep, even with the inevitable occasional drubbing which we WILL get.

There was much close season talk of Potter taking the shackles off a side who looked scared of their own shadows by the end of last season. It looks like a team that “weren’t good enough to compete without defending in depth” comments from so many CH diehards are being proved very wrong....so...