I think what some people are missing the point of is not so much points but performances. Yes we are 9 points above relegation but performance wise we are struggling massively.
We do not keep clean sheets. That means to win a game we have to score at least 2 goals. And we do not have a striker you could hang your hat on. Unlike say Sunderland who have Jack Clarke and Patrick Robert’s, who you could give the ball to and they may do something all on their own, we have no individual player who will beat a man or two and score or create out of nothing. Teams who concede goals and struggle to score inevitably go down.
Since January, when we knew we needed at least 2 forward players, we have let go Crooks and Rogers who were capable of chipping in with a goal.
At the end of the day Rotherham will be gone and we realistically only need 4 more wins unless 2 teams have incredible runs so it is unlikely but it is frightening how poor we look. As we simply cannot defend we must play 5 at the back, even at home, to give us solidity, but older generations will remember seasons such as 1988/89 where we went down with a horrendous run after Xmas, and the 2012/2013 season where if the season had went on another week or two, Mowbray would have taken us down as we were horrendous after Christmas, and this is the feeling I currently have with this team. That run in early 2013 also included a victory over the runaway leaders (Cardiff) just to echo that although we beat Leicester, that has no guarantees we will beat lower sides.
