Still looks fairly shaky to me at times, no where near the level of intensity we had under Madge.

It might just be me, but it looks like we're having to do far much more last ditch tackling with our defence scattered and not enough working as a unit with our sliding defence like we had under Madge. I'd like to see some stats on our goal-line defence actually, it just doesnt seem that we can defend our goal-line as well as we did in the last 1/2 seasons

Agreed. I was particularly pleased with Powell's defence, on debut. Some excellent one-on-one tackles.

Lies, damn lies and statistics say that we conceded an average of 15.22 points per SL game in 2009 against 15.26 so far this season. So no difference.

16.00 in 2010, so pretty consistent.

Thought it was fantastic tonight to be honest

There were some pretty poor reads and missed one on ones in midfield but the goal line and scrambling defence was excellent IMO. Plenty to work on before Wire mind, allowing offloads when 2 or 3 men are holding the ball carrier for one.

I thought our defence was fine last night but its not really saying much as we werent really tested. Hull were absolutely awful and looked clueless when they had the ball.