COWSHEDPHIL
Andy Booth Terrier
Everybody In The Centre Circle!
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Post by COWSHEDPHIL on Nov 3, 2008 14:46:05 GMT 1
I cant quite believe how high the our defence line is.
We are like a sunday league team. I haven;t seen town have a one on one with the striker running through on the goalkeeper in years.
Crewe had 3 or 4 in one afternoon.
The defence needs to drop back instead of trying to play the stupid offside game.
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Post by TomTheTerrier on Nov 3, 2008 14:53:36 GMT 1
I cant quite believe how high the our defence line is. We are like a sunday league team. I haven;t seen town have a one on one with the striker running through on the goalkeeper in years. Crewe had 3 or 4 in one afternoon. The defence needs to drop back instead of trying to play the stupid offside game. I've noticed us trying to play offside with a high line too. Fair enough if you want to risk it with speedy defenders, but our problems are compounded by the fact that ours aren't.
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Post by specialun on Nov 3, 2008 14:57:16 GMT 1
They should have looked at that at half time given that they had got behind us three times in the first half and scored once.
Whether we tried to do this and the plan went out of the window when they dropped the lad in the hole, I'm not sure, but it was stupid to defend with such a high line in the 2nd half given the events of the 1st half.
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Post by JollyGreenGiant on Nov 3, 2008 15:44:37 GMT 1
The problem is that the midfield and the defence are on the same high line as you call it Swedish. The ball then has to be played long as there is no midfield. The ball then keeps coming straight back because Dickinson i sincapable of controlling and holding aa ball up.
Hence it comes back so quick that Clarke is still measuring how far he has kicked it to see if he has beaten the previous record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and therefore he is not paying attention.
All in All - utter tripe.
Tactics can only come from coaching staff
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terrier67
Iain Dunn Terrier
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Post by terrier67 on Nov 3, 2008 15:54:22 GMT 1
It seems to me that there is no line. We generally push up, but someone is left playing them on. Then when we need to keep our shape and push out (usually hanging on in the last 20 minutes) we seem to adopt a Maginot Line approach with the 18 yard line with 9 players along it. The high line appears to be tried when we are being positive, ie when the midfield 4 all go forward in search of a goal, so the back 4 close up the big gap in between. To me it all smacks of poor organisation. You watch the permiership guys and MOTD pundits and they say "2 lines of 4" and show it working on countless occasions, not one row of 4, a 4o yard gap and another row of 4, or the row of 8 scenario. Surely they work on their shape given all eventualtities, if not then the coaching side must take some responsibility. Sorry for the long post !
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