Basically, everyone worked really hard and played well.
The lack of chances created (1 shot on target) is actually happening in lots of Champ games, and it's because ('if I'm being honest') of all this fatigue everyone's suffering from - not just us now, apparently - owing to the massively enhanced schedule of regular Saturday games and one in the week on top. (It's never happened before, I guess.)
Why Stoke dominated us for 20 mins in the 2nd half is 'one of the great mysteries' - up there, it would seem, with the Egyptian pyramids or the Man from Atlantis.
Up-next Wycombe (two wins and 11 goals in 18 games) will be 'hard', as they have had some 'very, very good results' and shown their 'quality'.
Sometimes I think I live in another universe and am watching football down some inverted telescope! I suppose all of life is a bit of truth mixed with lies and, as George Carlin used to love to remind us, a big slug of bullshit. (That's why, only in football, 'professional' is a synonym for 'cynical'.)
It wasn't all desolate against the Potters, I suppose, and that we found a way to wrestle back some possession and territory after being totally outplayed in the first 15-20 mins of the 2nd half deserves a bit of credit for the character it evinced, but I found it turgid as a spectacle and woefully short of cohesion and quality from us as the home side. And isn't a bit of effort the 'bare minimum' as Warbs has often told us? If that's the best we can do from now on, despite the one or two islands of promise, I do fear for this squad.
[Post edited 16 Dec 2020 0:08]
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