I'm a plastic, so only seen the TV games, but would agree with all of the above. I don't know how good our strikers are... I Like the look of antenucci when he stays onside... But I'm not sure we'll ever find out without better service. We show glimpses of nice football, but at the moment they are just glimpses. What proportion is formation, familiarisation, ability is hard to say. My gut is its a combination of all of them.

Agreed Leeds 2036.

I'd also like to see us taking more shots from edge of area, doesn't seem to be happening much; seems like we're trying to walk the ball into net most of the time.

Adryan has had a couple of longish shots at goal, I think, and hope he'll do it more and that could encourage our strikers and mids to try same a lot more.

We are a team in progress, and as Darko said, most don't have the experience of most other teams yet but, having said that,

our defence is much more solid than previous defences. some criticise our defenders on here, but they have soaked up a lot of pressure from opposing attacks, good attacking opposition too, and although our results are below par lately, they've kept the goals against down, other than the Watford game.

I feel the second half of season is going to see us learn from first half and put a few good winning runs together, if not before of course.

Fitness wise, I think Hockaday did get this one right, we don't seem to be tiring that much, with exceptions of a couple of youngsters.

I did say to others during the Norwich game, they're coming at us thick and fast and suspect they'll tire a bit towards end.

Good article, 5 from me.

2036, how are you measuring that defence is more solid?

We've conceded exactly the same number of goals in 13 league games as we had in first 13 games last season, so how is it more solid?

With regards to options, it feels like we have options, but we don't use them, in which case how much value are they?

Agree on the rest, especially the striker bit, we might struggle to have anyone score 10 league goals this season.

Jonty, to be fair 2036 was making a comparison with the Jan-May period during which we conceded roughly 1.8 goals per game. We've conceded 16 from 13 league games this season, which is roughly 1.2 per game.

I'd put a lot of this down to Silvestri, though, not the defence .

Warwick, I know he mentioned the depression of that time, but if comparing with last season, you generally compare like with like.

We tend to fall away in second half of season, so our current form might be as good as it gets!

I agree re Silvestri, the bright spark out of all the signings, not just for his play but for the way that he and his girlfriend engage with the fans, comes across as a good guy.

For me all of our goals/chances are created when Doukara or the midfield plays that defence splitting ball to Antenucci or Doukara. We only look like scoring one one ones. 4 of Doukaras 5 have been scored that way, Antenucci has scored twice and has had countless one one ones saved and he's had one or two disallowed. We pose little goal threat elsewhere Imo. We've only scored 15 in 15.

How good is Silvestri though, I've seen the save he made last night, stunning.

Leeds2036

I am concerned that any club that gets in our face we don't like, we need to be stronger.

We need to put the opposition on the back foot, we need to get into them early and sustain it, we need to command the ball.

As it stands we have no width to support and feed Antenucci and Doukara and at the same time we have nothing to stretch the opposition back line.

We can see it, surely them in charge can see it.