Bantams boss Phil Parkinson is concerned that his team are letting sides get the advantage with sluggish starts in both half's recent games, blimey, has he seen some of the Shrimers matches recently, could be a boring game!
Parky told www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/: “I can’t work out why it keeps happening but it’s something we have to rectify. We’d spoken to the lads beforehand and told them how important it was. You look at how we played against Wimbledon and there was not a great deal of difference. But we scored a couple of early goals in that game which settled everybody down. We didn’t have a great first ten minutes of the second half and that’s happened the last couple of home games. I don’t know if it’s a mental thing but we’ve got to look at it again. We’ll sit down with them this week and go through it.”
Oh well, trouble is the old ex-head farmer has a decent record visiting Roots Hall with ColU, Hull City and, more recently, Charlton Athletic, then again his old nemisis Steve Tilson has left the club, and I'd put present Blues boss Paul Sturrock up against him anytime.
He added: “We’ll remind the lads about it again because we can’t allow it to continue.
There was a little bit of tension on Saturday in the way both teams played. We still had enough chances to win the game but didn’t work the keeper enough. When we got going, we had all the play in the first half. Jon (McLaughlin) hardly touched the ball. But the period after half-time wasn’t so good and we conceded the goal. After that we played well again and had a lot of decent opportunities.”
We are of course in a bit of a slump ourselves, no win in five matches, could be closer than the pundits think.
Source: FOOTYMAD
