A problem at home, are your players wanting to play away?

A problem at home, are your players wanting to play away?


NEIL HARRIS:


"Results show we’ve been better away from home. But results across the football league. Preston have lost their home games, Derby have. It’s unheard of.

"I don’t expect that to change without fans. In some ways it’s better to be away from home. Usually, you’d expect the worst, a barrage of abuse from fans, mentally and physically, you don’t get that now.

"At home, no mental block, not a conscious problem, it’s just conceding the first goal.

"We have done well in the last few games but we can’t keep doing that. It’s the first-goal mentality."

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Our home form definitely needs to improve but if you look at the teams we have played so far it's not a major concern yet!

Sheffield Wednesday- bad performance, worse result. One to forget.
Reading - scoring for fun, conceded 1 goal, dropped points once.
Bournemouth - game could have gone either way, won't be far off top 2 this season.
Boro - typical warnock performance, very hard to break down or build any momentum, managed a draw against reading. Wont be far off top 6.

Sheffield Wednesday aside, I'd imagine a lot of teams will drop points against these teams at home.

would be more concerning if others were not experiencing the same , but has to be put right sooner rather than later

Our team leads itself to being effective away from home as we struggle to break teams down at home. When we had fans there they normally provided the little extra needed to the players. Don’t have that now so we struggle.

Post lockdown not a lot of teams had anything to play for but now they do home games are harder.

Why don't we try and away game at home?

Meet up the day before going to the vale for the night, have the usual meetings, meals etc that we have on away games, then travel onto the game together. Maybe the players themselves discussing the plans together for longer will have some effect?

It's got to be worth a go?