Are we "playing out of our skins"?

[Hoax]

Have read a few things lately on various forums which have basically said every week we are playing out of our skins to be in the position we are in. The only thing is in a lot of the games I have been to (90% of home games and a couple of away) it doesnt even look as if we have even moved out of second gear.

Leicester, QPR (home), Donny, Preston are four games I can think of where we didnt even seem to break a sweat and these are all supposed "decent" footballing sides with good players albeit some have had issues behind the scenes.

I'm not trying to be an arrogant twat by suggesting that we dont even have to try against any of these teams to win, I just hate the fact it is being suggested that we are overachieving. Why cant it just be accepted that the players we bought in the summer have quite obviously strengthened our squad significantly and we are now actually a force to be reckoned with?

 

[wearenottingham]

We close teams down well as a team which most don't as their forwards are idle ****s, probs why people are saying it.

 

[adam09]

My take on it is that since the Leicester game, I don't think we've been playing as well as we did before it, especially at home. Since the Leicester game we've been 'doing enough'. Our defence has been solid and we have the quality up front to score goals even if we don't play that great.

Eg - West Brom game, how many clear cut chances did we create? You could maybe count Dexter's goal and Cohen's at a stretch but Raddy's was out of nowhere and I don't remember us having many other great chances. And the QPR game, BBC site said we had 6 shots on target and I don't remember the QPR keeper doing much other than picking the ball out of the net. Similar stories in the other games. We could have even score 2 against Derby but wasted those rare chances, which we had been putting away before.

I felt the loss was coming. I think our home games against Leicester, Donny, Bristol City, Barnsley, Scunny, Derby we totally dominated play and the passing was superb and we created buckets of chances in each game. Even the game against Blackpool, we created about 15 chances and couldn't score, and they hit us on the break. But we completely outplayed them.

Hopefully the loss will kick our arses into gear, or Newcastle and West Brom will take over again. Not that Newcastle looked any good against Leicester on Saturday night, but they still got a draw.

 

[dbarraclough]

I think a lot of it has depended on whether the opposition has turned up. Leicester, QPR, Donny Preston , WBA are examples of teams making it very easy to play them off the park. Scorelines of 5-1 or 3-0 were easy enough when we only played for 60 minutes.
Other games we've done really well for 45 minutes, been the better side and ended up scraping wins like Reading, Barnsley, Newcastle and even sheep at home was only 45 minutes of good football.

To answer the question..No. I don't think we've hit top gear yet. It just seems that against most of the teams we've played, we haven't had to yet.

 

[adam09]

I don't think it's that they didn't turn up, it's more that they didn't kick us off the pitch and we were able to play a decent game of football.

Derby didn't do it from the start at the City Ground and they got punished, they did it in the second half and were allowed back into the game.

When we got the upper hand in the West Brom game, they quite noticeably attempted to get more physical and rough us up too, but it was too late for them by then.