BRISTOL86

Well we've let pretty much every team we've played all season rock up and dominate the midfield and dictate the tempo of the game, so why would today be any different!

Team looks very strange on paper! This place will be in meltdown if we lose

He must have meant wiener.

It's purely speculation that Lansdown snogged O'Driscoll. Don't go posting such malicious rumours!

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You just know Steady will score, and that really will be Lee Johnson's fault!

Bizarre team selection.

This. I love JET at times but I've never seen such a tank of a player be so useless at winning an aerial ball!

Indeed. Several years now, several managers, several changes of back room staff and defensive personnel. Id love to know what the problem is.

Dreadful defending again today by the sounds of things. How long has it been since we've been defensively solid?! Season after season it's the same issue. Too many goals conceded.

Good luck, I tried stats, logic and reason and it didn't work!

In my defence, I am more than happy to have a reasoned debate without any need for personal insults...with most! My main concern is that because of the amount of fuss that's been made about Baldock's missed chances (despite the stats showing he's amongst the most clinical in the league), this presents a problem in itself. Now, every single time Baldock has a goalscoring opportunity, he will be expected to score, and there will be loud groans every single time that doesn't happen, when the stats show that even players like Suarez miss 3 out of 4 chances they have. I'd like to think that only 3 out of every 4 times Baldock fails to score, the crowd won't get on his back, but I know different.

Clutch them tightly petal.

Yeah I noticed that. It was as if to say...."you were saying...?"

None of what you said matches what I wrote, have you been at the cider?

Well I have no intention of trawling through hundreds of goal attempts to see it's make up, but after nearly 30 games I would be surprised if the composition of goal attempts isn't reasonably similar enough across all of the candidates to be able to make meaningful comparisons. I've said all I care to on the subject, so I'll just leave with this from my earlier post: Preston are 4th, and we score more per game on average than they do. In fact, only 8 clubs in the league score more per game than we do, on average. However only 6 clubs concede more per game than us, and that's why we are where we are. If that doesn't make you see that it's the goals against - rather than the goals for - that put us in the drop zone, I don't know what else to say that will make you understand.

I probably know as much as you the composition of the competitors chances, but it doesn't make the statistic any less telling. Goals conceded is still the number one problem. Revisit the stats I posted on average goals scored vs conceded and how that stacks up to the rest of the league.

We should all stop feeding the troll.

Despite the stats proving that he is one of the best in the league at what he does? And as for your nonsense claim that the reason we are in the drop zone is because of his missed chances, and not our leaky defence...allow me to shatter another illusion of yours, if I may. Preston are 4th, and we score more per game on average than they do. In fact, only 8 clubs in the league score more per game than we do, on average. However only 6 clubs concede more per game than us, and that's why we are where we are. Taxi.

He doesn't know that, but it wouldn't fit his hate campaign to say otherwise.

It says that championship clubs spent lots of money on strikers less clinical than the one you hate that plays for the club you allegedly support. In what way is he average? Seriously, quantify that statement. He is up amongst the best in the league so far in terms of goals scored and chance conversion. I wonder how many of our defenders are amongst the top in their bracket for interceptions, key tackles, or our midfielders for assists, pass completion etc?

It must make you wonder what goes through his head. Joint club top scorer in the league, one of the highest (and most clinical) scorers in the division overall - despite playing in a team looking like relegation material for much of the season - and you hear people booing you off? People talk about a confidence issue...I wonder what the cause of that could be?!

Two people near me yesterday booed Baldock as he walked off at half time. Embarrassing.