Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
There are plenty of teams down the years who have done all of the things you list to some extent or another and achieved success.

Maybe for the first time ever, I agree with some of what Ronnie Bird says because I think there is some merit in playing like we do because, these days, opponents don't get as much experience of facing it as they once did, but I think there is a lot of keeping the, blind, faith going on since yesterday's match - City won, so everything is fine.

I can't speak for others, but because I'm critical of the way we play, it doesn't mean I want us to play in a possession for possession's sake way. That's a very extreme version of playing the game where possession is respected, while we play an increasingly extreme version of an attritional game where, it seems that having the ball for only a third of a game is regarded as no bad thing.

Neither of those approaches will bring you long term success, especially in the Premier League. You need to mix things up a bit and get sides guessing what you are likely to do going into a match - I think the fans would accept an attacking approach which saw us showing a bit more patience than we do now to try an work an opening.
Most people would be happy with watching us play like we did against Wolves, Leeds or Villa last time we were here wouldn’t they?

The challenge is attaining that level consistently. I’m not sure whether we abandoned the approach last time around or just started to run out of steam once we started picking up injuries and knocks along the way.