00:00 Dave Richard, another not great day on the road. What was missing from Albie today? What
00:12 went wrong? I think a lack of passion. And the main thing, it's too much pushing back.
00:16 Yeah, like I'm a long way away from home. I just don't seem to have the confidence to
00:21 play. It's like in football, it's just too slow. And if you just go for something, just
00:27 go forward. If you see some sideways, backwards, sideways, backwards, you just don't seem to
00:33 believe anything then. Nobody knows how to break anybody down. It seems to me that, even
00:37 at home, when teams put ten men behind the ball, we don't know how to break them down.
00:43 The best way for football to see this season is against Preston, when they actually attacked
00:48 us and left plenty of spaces at the back. And we exploited that, but we just don't seem
00:53 to know how to break teams down. Not brave enough to go two up top. One nil down. We
00:57 should have gone two up top, attacked. And the last 20 minutes, we played like we were
01:01 two nil up against ten men. We just strung around the pitch. Just not aggressive enough
01:06 or positive enough. Everything's backwards, sideways. Disappointing day today. I thought
01:10 we started right, sort of ten minutes first, ten minutes or so. Didn't really have too
01:15 many chances and they hit us with the pass and counter-punch, I think. After that, we
01:19 dominated the ball, dominated territory, but they were happy to sit in. I think we just
01:23 lacked a lot of cutting edge today. Didn't really create many great chances. Just seemed
01:29 a bit off the ball overall, I think. There just seems to be no urgency away from home.
01:35 We just seem to play so deep. We just seem to pass the ball around at the back. We go
01:39 forward, then it comes back out again. It's just totally different at home than it is
01:46 away. If we don't change, we're going to drop out of the playoffs.
01:49 The away form is a real concern. It's four defeats in five on the road. I think they've
01:52 only won four games out of 14 on the road. I know it's early, but is there a bit of a
01:56 concern that that might cost Alby in a playoff spot come the end of the season if it doesn't
01:59 turn around?
02:00 Yeah, definitely. When at home form, it's good. But away form is patchy at best. We
02:08 just don't seem to know how to break teams down away from home. If they sit in, ten men
02:15 behind the ball, we just don't seem to have a clue. It's slow, it's very laboured.
02:21 The teams can set up, defend how they want to, play how they want to. Nobody gets the
02:28 ball, goes right and takes a player on, runs at him, takes a couple of players out of the
02:32 game. They're always looking for somebody else to take responsibility.
02:39 There's no plan B, is there? We've got plan A. If it doesn't work, stick to plan A.
02:42 There's no plan B today. We should have gone two up top, one down. Be a bit more aggressive,
02:47 a bit more positive, more forward balls. You know, Jed Wallace has put more crosses in
02:50 than any other player in the Championship. Who's he going to pass it to today?
02:54 Yeah, I think so. I said to my friend earlier, I think we're relying on our home form massively
02:58 to keep us in the top six. I don't know what the formula is, I don't know what the answer
03:02 is. But yeah, I think we definitely need to try and prevent things like we have for the
03:06 rest of the season.
03:07 Well, he could well do in the long run. We've got to get the two full-backs as well. Townsend
03:12 and Furlong, they are poor. If it doesn't change, it's going to be a touchy go. We'll
03:18 stay in the top six.
03:19 You know, positives. There's not many positives to take. We saw Andy Viamond off the bench
03:22 half-time, a new option. He came on for a week, so I thought he had a poor first half.
03:25 But could he make a little bit of a difference there? Give you something different going
03:29 forward?
03:30 Yeah, well hopefully. Obviously, it's the early days. You're the main boat now. Obviously,
03:36 any player that comes to the Albion, you'd like to give them a chance anyway, wouldn't
03:40 you? I wouldn't know Zik's that bit of play or not.
03:42 X-Walls as well.
03:44 Yeah, X-Walls as well. So you're thinking, "Oh, I know." But over the years, we know
03:50 he's a decent player. So hopefully he can provide something for us.
03:54 He'll be all right. But the two substitutions, like the centre, we turn you all down, bring
04:00 us centre-half, centre-half. You've got Furlong on the bench. You've got more options attacking
04:05 and it just seems a bit of strength substitutions. But it is what it is.
04:09 Yeah, it wasn't a huge amount today. I thought we looked generally comfortable. I don't think
04:12 Norwich were overly threatening. They had a couple of chances. But I think Shalabar actually
04:17 did quite well. He had a good game when he came on second half. But yeah, I think you
04:20 have to find it under another bad day in the preseason.
04:23 I suppose that's the only saving grace for it, really. Lyman coming in and DK. Hopefully,
04:29 he can start in the not-too-distant future. But they need one or two more players as well.
04:33 They really do. Especially in full-back because I think Furlong in terms of probably the weak
04:38 links. And again, two goals have come through transition down our left-hand side. Furlong's
04:44 nowhere to be seen. He's either tucked in too far or he's outright. He's a bit tricked
04:51 in between. So yeah, things have got to change.
