It needs to stop. I wouldn't mind but I'm not sure what we gain from it even when it works.
No problem with bowling it out to full-backs, but giving the ball to lower-league centre-halves ten yards from goal is madness.
If we could do it well, we'd gain from not giving the ball away cheap. I'm big on playing from the back (and remember having this argument when we decided to smash the ball towards rhead everytime we got it, circa Yeovil at home last year), but we've gone too far the other way. The goal today was embarrassing, after the mistake last week I thought we might be a bit more conservative and hit it a bit earlier if under pressure.
IMO There's no excuse for the goal today and genuinely felt like it was Appleton dogma, that's the way we play so... there we go. At this level, doing that we we will win one 5-3 but next week lose badly. Unless we sign two £60m centre halves who stroke it about, no one is consistent enough to do it well. Certainly not shackell, bozzy and bolger.