Quote Originally Posted by Lolmorgan View Post
Yes they were the better side but that doesn’t excuse the poor defending,passing,crossing. We can’t even take a decent throw in.If we stay up & I think we will just, we have got to spend a hell of a lot of money for next season.
I agree lol but for me we started well and matched them in the opening 15 but you could then see Preston crank it up and I think our players wilted hugely under this pressure, over thought, hurried passes and crosses and generally feel apart in a way that lower quality players at this level are more prone to do. If they didn't tend to do that, had the ability to raise their game under pressure and fight off the challenge of very good opposing players on the top of their game squeezing them, I would imagine that they might not be playing for us!

I think we have the players that if some of the better teams aren't at their best and allow us to click, and maybe even get some luck, we can do ok at this level. But if even mid table teams play on top of their game against us, the odds are always going to be stacked against us and we have to rely on luck.

Full credit to Birmingham and Preston in my opinion. Both were aggressive and didn't give us chance to play and frankly we didn't have the quality to cope.