Some of you might have spotted my reply to another thread, looking at clean sheets etc. While it's great to have won 3 of our last 4 games, and boy, we've needed to, there are still concerns about us defensively for Morison to sort out.

It's been 19 games in all competitions since we last kept a clean sheet (Blackpool away). This might not bother some, as long as you score more than the other team you win, but statistically you win more points on average when you keep clean sheets than when you concede. Our club record is 29 games without a clean sheet (1933/34), so we're still some way off that; there have also been a handful of other times when we've gone 20 or more games without a clean sheet and in each of those seasons we've seen the club struggling at the wrong end of the table.

If we concede in both of our next two home games we'll have created a new club record for games without a clean sheet at home. We haven't managed a shutout in 16 home games and 18 would be a new record.

All of this comes as a rapid departure from our form at the end of last season. After 2 draws in his first two games, Mick McCarthy's side kept an incredible 8 clean sheets in 12 games, conceding only 5. The 11th game of that run, a 0-0 against Stoke, was the last time we kept a clean sheet at home. We beat Swansea 1-0 in the next fixture. Since then we've kept only 2 clean sheets in 30 games, the second worst record in our history. Who would have thought that would have been the case after the win at Swansea?

The second game after the South Wales derby win was a 5-0 drubbing at Sheffield Wednesday. Including that game we've conceded 2 or more in 12 of our last 29 games. Any ideas to why there has been such a reverse in our defensive fortunes?