Smirking_Saint

We looked good when we got the ball down and played football but it was fleeting Manning and Downes looked like they were playing hot potato, didn’t want the ball and wanted rid of it as soon as possible I thought Fellows and Azaz looked dangerous but we never gave them the ball Hoof ball to Archer ? Just why Felt like we completely wasted the first half tbh

Positives We didn’t lose Jander looks good Thats it really

Its lazy though, players ‘go missing’ because they don’t get the ball He’s had no service at all so far

Agree I like archer, he’s probably my starting No.9 but he’s not going to hold the ball up Every long ball we lose comes straight back… I ‘think’ he’s trying to play how Ralph used to play, where you try to catch their back four in possession but they’ve dealt with it well.. and our press is lethargic

Fuck me… much better playing some football

If he wanted to play this shite long ball why start Archer ?

No foul there for me On the game though, Manning looks like he doesn’t want the ball near him, he’s playing really nervy, we need to keep an eye on that Defensively we aren’t dealing with crosses at all, and in possession we aren’t playing football, just lumping it We need a huge improvement here

Fuck me i can’t settle these nerves

Yup Pretty big miscalc on my part

The word ‘clearly’ is doing a ton of heavy lifting here

Who do you suggest we buy that doesn’t come with risk ? We’ll also play Archer as our 9 Im not prescribed to the school that says we need a target man, we don’t play long balls like Wrexham do

Kieffer moore obviously

Missed the point again

I think if we play 4231 where the lines should be a bit more compressed then it should allow one of Downes or Charles (preferably Downes) to operate more as a 6 and the other an 8 At the moment it feels like they’re both having to be a sort of 6/8 hybrid FWIW in that case we don’t ‘need’ a more defensive CM brought in, they just need cleaner definition of their roles

My issue with 3 backs is its always easy to believe that its more defensively sound, and from experience back when I coached and just by watching the game its arguably the opposite 2 CB systems are easier because you know exactly what your responsibilities are, where as 3 CB systems introduces the ‘option’ to leave it to your CB partner(s) I also think in the way we play, it overloads the two CMs because the distances between the front line and defensive line is too vast, that means the wide CBs have to step out (and also step into the half spaces vacated by WBs) so it makes it all a bit messy on the transition My main complaint remains that we lose midfield battles too often and are open to break aways too much without seeing an overall dominance down the flanks.. so I question if risk is worth rewards ? Anyway… just some things Ive been thinking a while.. I do think we have the quality to be a dominant force in the division, just need some tweaks