Bournemouth - Nottingham Forest

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However, a drubbing would raise some real cause for concerns.

this is an engrained problem with the club, we have lost and drawn loads and loads of games, around 90% of losses have been by 1 goal and 90% of draws due to us only scoring 1 goal or less

i personally would welcome a couple of drubbings if it got us out of this low goals no goals rut and finds a way to get this team scoring and winning

i don't think a 6.3 loss would hurt anymore than losing 1 nil in the 95th minute

we seem to be about having a rigid, simple way of playing, as in the same thing for 90 minutes and to compound things CH doesn't like to use subs

particularly with the extreme fixture congestion and maybe older squad profile expecting our lot to run around closing down and chasing back for 90 minutes won't suit us

if anything our squad would be suited to complex tactical changes but every game seems the same or quite similar, though i appreciate our possession had increased but i think you have to go out to dominate lesser teams

regardless go for goals, or choose the time we go for it and gamble we need to start scoring, a drubbing so what we have to try new things based around scoring goals

I was very disappointed Hughton took a cautious approach early on, after the last minute winner in the first game at Blackburn I thought we should have built on that and pushed on for wins in the following very winnable matches (Rotherham and Derby). Some people seem to think that not losing was somehow 'laying a foundation', but I thought the draws were disappointing results, and it looked like the players did too.

I don't think away to Bournemouth is the time to take more risks, though I do think we need to change things tactically against them. It's just frustrating that we didn't push on when we should have, and the failure to get 3 points from matches against the weaker sides will likely be highlighted after this tough run we have coming up.