Great post Exiled, we are playing some excellent stuff a lot of the time and despite the defending last night we have had plenty of clean sheets to be encouraged by. However......we are not finishing enough of our chances which means the defence has to be near perfect to get a result - a lot of our efforts are straight at keepers or we've taken a touch too many. We should have murdered West Ham, Burnley at home and been out of sight by half-time against them yesterday, 1 of Brighton's 3 wins came against us.

All of that can be sorted out on the training ground, it's all about margins - which brings me onto the defence, our defending of set pieces against aerial teams isn't good at all, been a problem for a long time and that along with silly mistakes/switching off is why we lose most of the games we have lost.

Traore - up front he is looking very good, but if he doesn't help Cashy out at the back it's fruitless - hindsight's a wonderful thing but stick Trez & Nakamba on with 30 left there's no way we lose that game. As you say we are a work in progress and I am delighted with the direction we are going in - I just think that tweaks & substitutions (lack of) will leave us wondering what might have been. Reminds me of that pivotal game away at Leicester after being 2-0 up and our fortunes went in very different directions after losing 3-2.

UTV!