Southampton are so naive. Why do they persist fannying around from the back when they just can’t do it. Great having a philosophy and sticking by it. But may as well just boot the ball into their own net a couple of times a game. You simply have to do anything to survive the first season. Then worry about philosophy.
Yep and it means the promoted teams are always so easy to beat on their home patch now.
Stoke had it right years back with their unique style. Get in faces and get it forward quickly and you can get 6/7 home wins which means you don't need to get that many points away to stay up.
Brentford have perfected it and never look in any danger of getting relegated now and Forest had a very good home record in their first season up.
Ipswich with one home win all season considering they have Delap is really poor.
It was good Leeds never won that play off final as they'd have been far more competitive at this level. Even in the championship they've attracted some decent loan players like Manos Soloman and Ramazani. And they'd have taken Harrison back.