One thing I gleamed from the report from the Palace game (give the post a read if you havent - interesting write up) is that our team came out with attacking intent, pressed high and blew Palace away. Kinda like how I thought Luton was going to go and how I thought the season would progress. The golden thread. The philosophy which would permeate through all age groups to ease continuation through the ranks. If we are going to dominate Charlton thats what we need to do. Get high up the pitch, force them into panicked clearances, then start the attack again. With our defensive fraility it feels like attacking high press is the best form of defence and its a tactic I am not happy we abandoned so hastilly.
You have to admit Alf was right about the rebirth of the Boro........just got the year wrong (and just about everything else
the last three paragraphs of that Gazette comment shows how much things have changed since then
Round 20
H Tottenham v Burnley
D Blackburn v Derby
H Cardiff v Barnsley
H Fulham v Bristol City
H Hull v Stoke
A Luton v Wigan
H Boro v Charlton (Fletcher)
A QPR v PNE
H Reading v Birmingham
A Sheff Wed v Brentford
Round 21
H Leeds v Hull
H Forest v Boro (Fletcher)
D PNE v Fulham
H Stoke v Luton
D Barnsley v Reading
H Birmingham v QPR
H Brentford v Cardiff
H Derby v Sheff Wed
H Swansea v Blackburn
A Wigan v WBA
yeah....Hughton likes giant defenders....playing with one up front ...."combative" box-to-box midfielders and favours "narrow" rather than "wide" formations.......based on South Coast and known for teams that score very few goals....does this sound familiar?....on the plus side, he is very experienced, by all accounts respected by players and isn't "controversial"...but is he really going to produce better football than people were so unhappy about twelve months ago.......(having said that, if he was appointed as a short term "keep us in the Championship" deal, I could live with that)