NEWS CHANNELJohn Gorman column - November 24
There is always going to be games at home where things don’t go right and we have no excuses, at the end of the day we lost 4-1.
I would say that Sheffield Wednesday, with Neil Mellor, Clinton Morrison, Tommy Spur and Gary Teale, are one of the strongest teams in the league but they don’t perform consistently.
Their quality didn’t surprise me because all of their players should be in the Championship at least and their experience told.
I thought we started off very well on Saturday, we looked very lively but we let in a couple of bad goals before half-time.
The second one - an own goal - was very unfortunate and I thought we would overcome that because we started the second half so well.
The third goal was the killer.
It’s a cliche but we spoke to their manager Alan Irvine after the game and he agreed that the next goal after half-time was the most important one.
If we’d have got it everyone’s spirits would have been lifted, but they broke away and scored what was a bad goal from our point of view because Mellor got a free header.
We should have done better with the goals we conceded.
By the time the fourth came the game was virtually over and the lads looked tired mentally.
One of the positives we have to take from the game was the early goal from Mark Carrington.
He has stepped up to the plate recently and his goal didn’t surprise me, I was really pleased for him.
In recent weeks we’ve had a lot of fixtures to fulfil, but we have a free weekend awaiting us because, unfortunately, we’re no longer in the FA Cup.
It will be good to have a weekend without a game especially knowing the ones that are being played don’t have an impact on our position in the league.
It gives us chance to focus on the training ground, look in to tactics, our shape and hopefully the extra time will allow us to regain some of the injured players.
I would say that Sheffield Wednesday, with Neil Mellor, Clinton Morrison, Tommy Spur and Gary Teale, are one of the strongest teams in the league but they don’t perform consistently.
Their quality didn’t surprise me because all of their players should be in the Championship at least and their experience told.
I thought we started off very well on Saturday, we looked very lively but we let in a couple of bad goals before half-time.
The second one - an own goal - was very unfortunate and I thought we would overcome that because we started the second half so well.
The third goal was the killer.
It’s a cliche but we spoke to their manager Alan Irvine after the game and he agreed that the next goal after half-time was the most important one.
If we’d have got it everyone’s spirits would have been lifted, but they broke away and scored what was a bad goal from our point of view because Mellor got a free header.
We should have done better with the goals we conceded.
By the time the fourth came the game was virtually over and the lads looked tired mentally.
One of the positives we have to take from the game was the early goal from Mark Carrington.
He has stepped up to the plate recently and his goal didn’t surprise me, I was really pleased for him.
In recent weeks we’ve had a lot of fixtures to fulfil, but we have a free weekend awaiting us because, unfortunately, we’re no longer in the FA Cup.
It will be good to have a weekend without a game especially knowing the ones that are being played don’t have an impact on our position in the league.
It gives us chance to focus on the training ground, look in to tactics, our shape and hopefully the extra time will allow us to regain some of the injured players.
