why are we so poor in the air away from home?

[Brede Butter Pudding]

I know Kevin Davies is a big lad but seriously, why are we so bad in the air away from home. It happened against Stoke and Blackburn and now at Bolton. Every time a free kick is sent in a get nervous - we look unable to defend anything aerially and it's only away from home. I'm looking forward to Okaka's introduction. I hope he's given a good 25 minutes.

[YankeeJim]

We also seem to not get our share of 50-50 balls. I know Danny & Duff are little guys but Elm, Greening & the south Africa are not.

[OldBrownShoe]

We are poor away from home whether the ball is in the air or on the ground! But still, keep the faith!

[Admin]

It's Woy's 'continental' style of play. Not only are you allowed to go past the half way line, you're not allowed to jump more than a foot off the floor along with putting more than three passes together before giving it nicely back to the oposition. It's also 'proper' conduct to keep the game at 0-0 as long as you can and if the other team don't 'advance' gift them a goal in the 90th minute for good spotsman-ship. Woy is a real professional at this and has been studying it for years. Keep the faith, he knows what he's doing.

[fulhamguy]

It's because we have no width and on the bigger pitches away from the cottage we struggle.

And we've got no pace anywhere in the team (especially no Kam has gone) so we just cannot break with pace and score on the counter.

[Jimpav]

It's because we have no width and on the bigger pitches away from the cottage we struggle.

And we've got no pace anywhere in the team (especially no Kam has gone) so we just cannot break with pace and score on the counter.

I used to think that we did better on smaller pitches but Pompey were slicing us down the middle last week.

I do agree that we are not very good on the counter though.

[TheDaddy]

Turbulence ! ;D