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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Oct 27, 2014 11:59:36 GMT 1
the first mention of a gameplan. This is what I believe Powell is doing and utilising his whole squad. He is not worried about the opposition as some old stagers may suggest but the game has moved on and I think he is trying to exploit various weaknesses in the opposition, it's about looking at their weakness and strengths and how we can line up to not only nullify their strength but ALSO exploit their weaknesses using our squad. Those saying put our best team out every week and let them worry about us might think they are right but if as most think it would be 4-3-3 then that would alienate our top scorer and biggest asset, knowing he would be on the bench every week and the club would be playing a formation that doesn't suit his style so if starting from the bench he couldn't be an effective like for like with Holt. IMO we have 3 midfielders that can match any midfield 3 on workrate but maybe not the ability of the elite teams in the division, we HAVE to improve defensively especially at setpieces but all that said I believe any strikeforce we put out will cbe a threat nd cause difficulties for the opposition.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 27, 2014 12:10:38 GMT 1
A fair summary by the Ipswich fan. I'd sort of slightly put it the other way round, not so much that CP got the tactics right but that McCarthy got them disastrously wrong. You can't play 4-3-3 with those three big fairly slow lads up front. You need the sort of pace we have from the flanks with Bunn and Scannell. Our squad is much more suited to playing 4-3-3 than theirs - so its kind of ironic that they did and we didn't! Maybe Powell thought that through in advance and pulled Mick's pants down
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 12:24:47 GMT 1
A fair summary by the Ipswich fan. I'd sort of slightly put it the other way round, not so much that CP got the tactics right but that McCarthy got them disastrously wrong. You can't play 4-3-3 with those three big fairly slow lads up front. You need the sort of pace we have from the flanks with Bunn and Scannell. Our squad is much more suited to playing 4-3-3 than theirs - so its kind of ironic that they did and we didn't! Maybe Powell thought that through in advance and pulled Mick's pants down Well they're still 5th and could have been top if they'd held their lead in the last 3 games - the tactic seems to be working pretty well for them so far
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Post by bristolterrier on Oct 27, 2014 12:40:43 GMT 1
I will defend you Colt. Not sure how old you are but I reckon that you are probably over 40 which puts you in the "old School" category. As someone mentioned earlier, with better finishing we probably wouldn't have needed Scanz and Bunn to even come on the pitch so Powell made the right call. What always irritates me is when managers tell us Footballers are tired. I just cannot get my head around the fact that they go into work 10am-2pm and might play 2 90min games a week. They are all as fit as butchers dogs and conditioned to play professional football so why are they tired?? Bricklayers & Scaffolders get tired but I just for the life of me cannot understand why footballers get tired and never will.By the way Powell is doing a great job. Nonsense. Bricklayers and scaffolders don't compete against other Bricklayers and scaffolders to put up the same wall/scaffold with thousands of people watching their every move. They can go in hungover and chat to their mates while working. Tiredness is the wrong word, it makes them sound like they're lounging around, sleeping in hammocks. They won't have been 100% and for wingers in particular that is very important as they are trying to outwit their full-back every time and are consistently sprinting for 90 minutes. They're more likely to pick up injuries and lose concentration when they're jaded too. As a former bricklayer I can tell you that trying to provide for your family when you cannot work due to the weather, or the simple fact that there is no work around, worrying about being able to pay your bills and service a mortgage to keep a roof over your head brings a mental tiredness that no footballer currently at Town will have to worry about. Comparing a players concerns about beating a full back with a tradesmans full working day and concerns about keeping a roof over their family's head is nonsense. My original post is that I personally cannot understand players being tired or "jaded" whatever that might be and that is I admit based on "old school" thinking.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 27, 2014 13:11:29 GMT 1
cp said after the brighton game that we changed our approach because their full backs play high up the pitch..he also mentioned playing against lua lua. "we tried to counter it".. there wasn't much mention of our ideas on how to attack their system, merely to counter it.
call me an old stager but that's what he said after a match in which , after we scored, we clearly 'played' Brighton, they didn't play us...We drew but it didn't really work for us.
The first 60 minutes on Saturday were ok but we were 2-0 down till 'we' changed what we were doing. Seems we can 'alter' games to our benefit, its maybe not the ideal time to wait till 2-0 down though? The period when we were 3-0 against blackpool wasn't tactically great either, sitting off and wending our way into a rapturous half time applause.
We don't look bad at all going forward and we look better defensively up the pitch, we still look shifty as shit when we drop off and 'defend' deep. We may well be on the way to a much better season but the lessons of the last 2 years have to be learnt.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 13:17:01 GMT 1
cp said after the brighton game that we changed our approach because their full backs play high up the pitch..he also mentioned playing against lua lua. "we tried to counter it".. there wasn't much mention of our ideas on how to attack their system, merely to counter it. call me an old stager but that's what he said after a match in which , after we scored, we clearly 'played' Brighton, they didn't play us...We drew but it didn't really work for us. The first 60 minutes on Saturday were ok but we were 2-0 down till 'we' changed what we were doing. Seems we can 'alter' games to our benefit, its maybe not the ideal time to wait till 2-0 down though? The period when we were 3-0 against blackpool wasn't tactically great either, sitting off and wending our way into a rapturous half time applause. We don't look bad at all going forward and we look better defensively up the pitch, we still look shifty as shit when we drop off and 'defend' deep. We may well be on the way to a much better season but the lessons of the last 2 years have to be learnt. We're 'fourth' in the 'form table' Averaging '2' points a game. 'That's' promotion form You say the 'first' 60 minutes we're "ok", yet seemly 90% of 'Ipswich' fans will 'admit' that we would have been 'clear' by then, but 'some' wasteful finishing. They 'barely' created a chance from 'open' 'play', both goals 'were' corners.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Oct 27, 2014 13:28:31 GMT 1
Nonsense. Bricklayers and scaffolders don't compete against other Bricklayers and scaffolders to put up the same wall/scaffold with thousands of people watching their every move. They can go in hungover and chat to their mates while working. Tiredness is the wrong word, it makes them sound like they're lounging around, sleeping in hammocks. They won't have been 100% and for wingers in particular that is very important as they are trying to outwit their full-back every time and are consistently sprinting for 90 minutes. They're more likely to pick up injuries and lose concentration when they're jaded too. As a former bricklayer I can tell you that trying to provide for your family when you cannot work due to the weather, or the simple fact that there is no work around, worrying about being able to pay your bills and service a mortgage to keep a roof over your head brings a mental tiredness that no footballer currently at Town will have to worry about. Comparing a players concerns about beating a full back with a tradesmans full working day and concerns about keeping a roof over their family's head is nonsense. My original post is that I personally cannot understand players being tired or "jaded" whatever that might be and that is I admit based on "old school" thinking. It's normally those from your side of the argument that are bringing up or at least implying this pretty much irrelevant comparison. We need to get away from'oh nurses, the working man, blah, blah, blah, blah'. Drives me crackers, whether we're talking in comparison to footballers, politicians, bankers, etc. I'm sure it's frustrating seeing in particular the former getting what is realistically crazy money, but it's somewhat irrelevant to the point being made, as Eight Ball quite pragmatically highlights. We have a squad, why not exploit it. Whether the right call is always made is another thing, including being over-protective.
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Post by Colt Seavers on Oct 27, 2014 13:32:59 GMT 1
Yes, but he is really good at putting pictures on the internet, trying to belittle people, so what he says must be true. I can't believe that anybody still even bothers replying to this painful attention seeker, who just tries to be 'controversial' so that he can engineer an opportunity to put others down (No doubt to make himself feel better about some personal inadequacy). He's pathetic, just block him and move on. . What a wanker. I am not trying to be controversial in the slightest, you label me all the above because i choose to have a different opinion to the rest that just seem to want to suck Huddersfield Town off at every given opportunity. I have been right about the last 3 managers, i have also been right about numerous other inadequacies at the Club. One which has recently been addressed after god knows how long. That will just be coincidental though with he fact we are now unbeaten in six matches. The Arseholes on here just want to pick out the snippets that suit them. At what point have i said Powell is doing a bad job, oh i know, i haven't. I have said on more than one occasion that he seems to have the squad ticking, but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. You lot need to realise this is a game of opinions as is life and stop getting so personal when people disagree with your precious club.
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Post by sapphireblue on Oct 27, 2014 13:38:02 GMT 1
I can't believe that anybody still even bothers replying to this painful attention seeker, who just tries to be 'controversial' so that he can engineer an opportunity to put others down (No doubt to make himself feel better about some personal inadequacy). He's pathetic, just block him and move on. . What a wanker. I am not trying to be controversial in the slightest, you label me all the above because i choose to have a different opinion to the rest that just seem to want to suck Huddersfield Town off at every given opportunity. I have been right about the last 3 managers, i have also been right about numerous other inadequacies at the Club. One which has recently been addressed after god knows how long. That will just be coincidental though with he fact we are now unbeaten in six matches. The Arseholes on here just want to pick out the snippets that suit them. At what point have i said Powell is doing a bad job, oh i know, i haven't. I have said on more than one occasion that he seems to have the squad ticking, but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. You lot need to realise this is a game of opinions as is life and stop getting so personal when people disagree with your precious club. You said it Colt.
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Oct 27, 2014 13:42:38 GMT 1
cp said after the brighton game that we changed our approach because their full backs play high up the pitch..he also mentioned playing against lua lua. "we tried to counter it".. there wasn't much mention of our ideas on how to attack their system, merely to counter it. call me an old stager but that's what he said after a match in which , after we scored, we clearly 'played' Brighton, they didn't play us...We drew but it didn't really work for us. The first 60 minutes on Saturday were ok but we were 2-0 down till 'we' changed what we were doing. Seems we can 'alter' games to our benefit, its maybe not the ideal time to wait till 2-0 down though? The period when we were 3-0 against blackpool wasn't tactically great either, sitting off and wending our way into a rapturous half time applause. We don't look bad at all going forward and we look better defensively up the pitch, we still look shifty as shit when we drop off and 'defend' deep. We may well be on the way to a much better season but the lessons of the last 2 years have to be learnt. You mention the Brighton game and I believe it was the ineffective use of the 4-3-3 that led to saturday's formation change. You can't have it both ways saying play our best team 4-3-3 but then criticise him when he does. What about the period to lead 3-0 against Blackpool, when can you remember us being 3-0 against aanyone after 16mins. I think you are concentrating on the negatives which is fine but it's hardly fair on Powell to blame him for not learning the lessons of the last 2 years when he hasn't been Town manager for 2 months unlike us he hasn't witnessed our last 2 seasons progress up the table ooops sorry failings.
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Post by bristolterrier on Oct 27, 2014 13:44:14 GMT 1
As a former bricklayer I can tell you that trying to provide for your family when you cannot work due to the weather, or the simple fact that there is no work around, worrying about being able to pay your bills and service a mortgage to keep a roof over your head brings a mental tiredness that no footballer currently at Town will have to worry about. Comparing a players concerns about beating a full back with a tradesmans full working day and concerns about keeping a roof over their family's head is nonsense. My original post is that I personally cannot understand players being tired or "jaded" whatever that might be and that is I admit based on "old school" thinking. It's normally those from your side of the argument that are bringing up or at least implying this pretty much irrelevant comparison. We need to get away from'oh nurses, the working man, blah, blah, blah, blah'. Drives me crackers, whether we're talking in comparison to footballers, politicians, bankers, etc. I'm sure it's frustrating seeing in particular the former getting what is realistically crazy money, but it's somewhat irrelevant to the point being made, as Eight Ball quite pragmatically highlights. We have a squad, why not exploit it. Whether the right call is always made is another thing, including being over-protective. It's all about opinions and as I have said in consecutive posts it is probably my age and mindset to wonder how a professional footballer can ever become tired or jaded. Just because I may have a different opinion it doesn't necessarily mean I am wrong and I respect other peoples views. I have not been critical of Powell at all and think he is doing a terrific job. Like many I knew we had a very decent set of players but just needed a Manager to get the best out of them which Powell seems to be doing. Roll on Saturday.
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Oct 27, 2014 13:44:59 GMT 1
I can't believe that anybody still even bothers replying to this painful attention seeker, who just tries to be 'controversial' so that he can engineer an opportunity to put others down (No doubt to make himself feel better about some personal inadequacy). He's pathetic, just block him and move on. . What a wanker. I am not trying to be controversial in the slightest, you label me all the above because i choose to have a different opinion to the rest that just seem to want to suck Huddersfield Town off at every given opportunity. I have been right about the last 3 managers, i have also been right about numerous other inadequacies at the Club. One which has recently been addressed after god knows how long. That will just be coincidental though with he fact we are now unbeaten in six matches. The Arseholes on here just want to pick out the snippets that suit them. At what point have i said Powell is doing a bad job, oh i know, i haven't. I have said on more than one occasion that he seems to have the squad ticking, but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. You lot need to realise this is a game of opinions as is life and stop getting so personal when people disagree with your precious club. Kettle... pot... black post if I've ever seen one
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Post by htfctx on Oct 27, 2014 13:45:22 GMT 1
A fair summary by the Ipswich fan. I'd sort of slightly put it the other way round, not so much that CP got the tactics right but that McCarthy got them disastrously wrong. You can't play 4-3-3 with those three big fairly slow lads up front. You need the sort of pace we have from the flanks with Bunn and Scannell. Our squad is much more suited to playing 4-3-3 than theirs - so its kind of ironic that they did and we didn't! Maybe Powell thought that through in advance and pulled Mick's pants down Disagree, 433 is a narrow setup, suited to long ball. 442 provides more width, 352 more width again 451 defensive and wide
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Post by Colt Seavers on Oct 27, 2014 13:49:40 GMT 1
I can't believe that anybody still even bothers replying to this painful attention seeker, who just tries to be 'controversial' so that he can engineer an opportunity to put others down (No doubt to make himself feel better about some personal inadequacy). He's pathetic, just block him and move on. . What a wanker. I am not trying to be controversial in the slightest, you label me all the above because i choose to have a different opinion to the rest that just seem to want to suck Huddersfield Town off at every given opportunity. I have been right about the last 3 managers, i have also been right about numerous other inadequacies at the Club. One which has recently been addressed after god knows how long. That will just be coincidental though with he fact we are now unbeaten in six matches. The Arseholes on here just want to pick out the snippets that suit them. At what point have i said Powell is doing a bad job, oh i know, i haven't. I have said on more than one occasion that he seems to have the squad ticking, but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. You lot need to realise this is a game of opinions as is life and stop getting so personal when people disagree with your precious club. If that is your lame attempt at tarring me with the same brush i suggest you read the 7th post in. The " FOR ME" part of the sentence is crucial. That is the same as My Opinion and then fuck me, you would have thought i had just pissed on everyones kids. Its fuckin laughable that people take criticism so personal.
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Post by mightyterrier on Oct 27, 2014 14:33:41 GMT 1
. What a wanker. I am not trying to be controversial in the slightest, you label me all the above because i choose to have a different opinion to the rest that just seem to want to suck Huddersfield Town off at every given opportunity. I have been right about the last 3 managers, i have also been right about numerous other inadequacies at the Club. One which has recently been addressed after god knows how long. That will just be coincidental though with he fact we are now unbeaten in six matches. The Arseholes on here just want to pick out the snippets that suit them. At what point have i said Powell is doing a bad job, oh i know, i haven't. I have said on more than one occasion that he seems to have the squad ticking, but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. You lot need to realise this is a game of opinions as is life and stop getting so personal when people disagree with your precious club. If that is your lame attempt at tarring me with the same brush i suggest you read the 7th post in. The " FOR ME" part of the sentence is crucial. That is the same as My Opinion and then fuck me, you would have thought i had just pissed on everyones kids. Its fuckin laughable that people take criticism so personal. ' 'You would have thought I had just pissed on everyone's kids', that fair made me chuckle
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Post by Tinpot on Oct 27, 2014 14:34:28 GMT 1
Nonsense. Bricklayers and scaffolders don't compete against other Bricklayers and scaffolders to put up the same wall/scaffold with thousands of people watching their every move. They can go in hungover and chat to their mates while working. Tiredness is the wrong word, it makes them sound like they're lounging around, sleeping in hammocks. They won't have been 100% and for wingers in particular that is very important as they are trying to outwit their full-back every time and are consistently sprinting for 90 minutes. They're more likely to pick up injuries and lose concentration when they're jaded too. As a former bricklayer I can tell you that trying to provide for your family when you cannot work due to the weather, or the simple fact that there is no work around, worrying about being able to pay your bills and service a mortgage to keep a roof over your head brings a mental tiredness that no footballer currently at Town will have to worry about. Comparing a players concerns about beating a full back with a tradesmans full working day and concerns about keeping a roof over their family's head is nonsense. My original post is that I personally cannot understand players being tired or "jaded" whatever that might be and that is I admit based on "old school" thinking. True, but then it's back to the point made earlier that you could go into work and work at 80% of your potential best and that would be fine. To take the analogy further, suppose you had somebody trying desperately to stop you building that house (or winning that football match). If you're more tired than they are, they're more likely to be able to stop you. It's not about feeling sorry for the poor footballers who have to work 4 hours per day in training and then play twice a week. It's about making the best use possible of the squad you have. If you have a player that's just slightly below his best, then their opponent who is at their peak is likely to get the best of them. Similarly, for those who say that they worked all week, played football on the Saturday and the Sunday and had a night on the pop in between - I don't doubt that for a minute. However, their opponents were probably in a very similar position, and I bet they would win more games on a Sunday if they'd gone into the match well rested.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 27, 2014 15:13:01 GMT 1
A fair summary by the Ipswich fan. I'd sort of slightly put it the other way round, not so much that CP got the tactics right but that McCarthy got them disastrously wrong. You can't play 4-3-3 with those three big fairly slow lads up front. You need the sort of pace we have from the flanks with Bunn and Scannell. Our squad is much more suited to playing 4-3-3 than theirs - so its kind of ironic that they did and we didn't! Maybe Powell thought that through in advance and pulled Mick's pants down Disagree, 433 is a narrow setup, suited to long ball. 442 provides more width, 352 more width again 451 defensive and wide I disagree. Ipswich are the only team I've ever seen play 4-3-3 with three lumps up front. When I say we are more suited to 4-3-3 I mean the variant called 4-2-3-1 which provides plenty of width.
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Post by htfctx on Oct 27, 2014 15:19:27 GMT 1
Disagree, 433 is a narrow setup, suited to long ball. 442 provides more width, 352 more width again 451 defensive and wide I disagree. Ipswich are the only team I've ever seen play 4-3-3 with three lumps up front. When I say we are more suited to 4-3-3 I mean the variant called 4-2-3-1 which provides plenty of width. Because 4231 is a variant Of 451, yes plenty of width there.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 27, 2014 15:30:32 GMT 1
I think I was pretty fair on CP and his approach to games. We always looked in trouble on Saturday at set pieces, forget the missed chances at the other end, missed chances or even scoring 3 does not absolve everyone from defending properly. We dropped off more than a few times and allowed the ball to be in our own final third, we allowed it to stay there for too long and we got dicked twice because of it, this from an Ipswich team that produced little or nothing from open play?? Can you see what im getting at here?
We cannot run away from where the ball is an invite pressure, we are shit at it. Clearly there are occasions when you have to be further back, but we can drop off at nothing and stay too deep for no reason at all(see the second goal for details)..
As I said, once powell gets a real grip on that we may well progress and have a very decent season but we are better playing up the pitch than in our own half, its just a fact. Once the opposition stop being gifted goals we will be giving ourselves the chance to win games, not have to alter our gameplan to save them..
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Oct 27, 2014 15:41:02 GMT 1
That reminds me that a manager never claims his side scores a 'soft goal' (they are usually hard worked for crafted bits of skill) but they always seem to be conceding them. I guess it depends on your point of view.
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Oct 27, 2014 15:51:46 GMT 1
Nonsense. Bricklayers and scaffolders don't compete against other Bricklayers and scaffolders to put up the same wall/scaffold with thousands of people watching their every move. They can go in hungover and chat to their mates while working. Tiredness is the wrong word, it makes them sound like they're lounging around, sleeping in hammocks. They won't have been 100% and for wingers in particular that is very important as they are trying to outwit their full-back every time and are consistently sprinting for 90 minutes. They're more likely to pick up injuries and lose concentration when they're jaded too. As a former bricklayer I can tell you that trying to provide for your family when you cannot work due to the weather, or the simple fact that there is no work around, worrying about being able to pay your bills and service a mortgage to keep a roof over your head brings a mental tiredness that no footballer currently at Town will have to worry about. Comparing a players concerns about beating a full back with a tradesmans full working day and concerns about keeping a roof over their family's head is nonsense. My original post is that I personally cannot understand players being tired or "jaded" whatever that might be and that is I admit based on "old school" thinking. I'm not belittling the work of bricklayers, I've done labouring and other manual work and it's hard graft. What I'm saying is your analogy is not only meaningless but is very counter-productive and highly misleading for all the reasons that I and others have said. Regarding the bold bit, if it is nonsense then why have you made that analogy in the first place? The professionals believe that it was a better idea to leave the two lads on the bench and considering they've spent their entire working lives in the game and work with them every day then I think I'll trust their judgment. I'm not sure if you were at the Brighton game but Scannell was blowing out of his arse with 10 to go and Bunn wasn't as effective as he has been so for me it was prudent to start them on the bench. Don't forget that Scannell hasn't had too many consecutive games over the last 2 years and Bunn had a bad injury or two when he was at City and has never played so many consecutive games at this level, so he needs to be protected.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 27, 2014 15:56:37 GMT 1
everybody lets in 'soft ones', its how many soft ones you concede that counts. Town let in too many. We have periods in most games where the concentration just goes to shit for too long a time. We quite often get away with it, problem is in this division those 'escapes' are much less frequent.
I just hate to see us 'sit in', you can almost feel the goal coming. simple fact is that corners are more dangerous than throw ins, free kicks closer to your goal are more dangerous etc etc.. Its sometimes just a percentage game. Having watched us defend 10 yards outside our box for long periods and be excellent with the opposition getting nothing, its very hard to understand the retreat at times. The 25 minutes after we scored against Brighton was and still is something of a total mystery ...
As I have said before Town look as good as most teams on the break, we don't have the pace to start these from deep but we have the runners with the ball to be very dangerous if they get the ball in the right place to start with.
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Post by cfromhx on Oct 27, 2014 16:27:58 GMT 1
Graham, you may well think you can judge me, but i am far from fishing. For the pedantic, then yes it was only 2, but you are not that fuckin thick not to understand what i meant. The 2 main players that have been getting rave reviews are left on the bench. I told my dad before KO, when he said that, that they deserved to get hammered with decision making like that. 2-0 down and then low and behold, Bunn and Scannell come on and the game changes. You might all want to blow smoke up his arse, but see when he makes mistakes and today he made one. Play your best team available and stop trying to be clever fucking about. I can well understand why he dropped scans, because he looked absolutely knackered an hour in to the game on Tuesday night.. we've just gone six games unbeaten, be happy.ffs Sent from my HTC One mini 2 using proboards Exactly, a squad to be proud of, you can't keep the same team every week unless they are world class because then opposition will find it easy to plan against us. All we need now is to get some defenders in Jan who mark more closely and can be bothered to try and get a foot in to block when an unmarked striker unleashes a shot. We need defenders who keep players marked
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Post by bro600 on Oct 27, 2014 16:42:31 GMT 1
Would you clubcocksucking, Powellarselicking nerds stop criticizing Colt. He has a different opinion to everyone else so what? How dare you criticize a criticizer? He should be able to come on here say what he wants without reply FFS.. Get with the programme... He was right about Clark, Grayson and Robins eventually and once said Alex Ferguson wouldn't last at United..Where are those that laughed now? Cretins...
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 27, 2014 17:13:02 GMT 1
you would like to believe that bunn and scannel were going to be late subs introduced to take the game on and win a tight encounter for Town??
not sure either would have got a run of any length if it had still been 0-0 or if we had been winning by a goal.
maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong but having had a manager for a while who could only 'see a draw' in games with 20 odd minutes left, that we eventually lost id like to believe that Powell might go the other way and continue to try and win games we are leading in and win games that we are drawing in.
having watched us succumb to the 'young manager' hold what you have approach on numerous occasions it might be a nice change to see some positive changes whatever the score actually is at the time.
Being able to come back from 2-0 is great but its not good for the old ticker and it wont work very often in this division.
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Post by rocky on Oct 27, 2014 17:18:02 GMT 1
but this weeekend FOR ME, he got the initial team selection wrong and IMO cost us 2 extra points. It's not as black & white as you make out Colt. Consider the bits in bold from CP's post match comments on the official site.
I want to be careful, because Sean and Harry have made such an impact and I want them to do that long term as well. They’ve carried the team forward, created chances and scored goals. I also looked at Ipswich, who play a front three and are quite direct at times to a plan, and I felt we needed that extra security.
He was clearly worried about Scannell's ability to last a full game & possibly Bunn as well. There's a big 3 games in a week period coming up soon & he's got to factor that in. Also, once indentified, he can't ignore the threat he felt that Ipswich posed & you can't argue with his logic.
You seem to be saying we'd have won the game with those 2 starting, because we won it 2-0 for the time they were on. We could just as easily have been hammered & maybe lost at least one of them to injury (at just the wrong time). Bottom line is we'll never know, but there's no basis to say he cost us 2 points.
For the record, I thought it was a strange decision to leave both of them out, but for me, one that was totally vindicated by the result.
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Post by Colt Seavers on Oct 27, 2014 18:58:42 GMT 1
Would you clubcocksucking, Powellarselicking nerds stop criticizing Colt. He has a different opinion to everyone else so what? How dare you criticize a criticizer? He should be able to come on here say what he wants without reply FFS.. Get with the programme... He was right about Clark, Grayson and Robins eventually and once said Alex Ferguson wouldn't last at United..Where are those that laughed now? Cretins...
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Post by bro600 on Oct 27, 2014 19:04:37 GMT 1
I'm right with you there brother..Power to the people...Down with the majority and up with the mindless minority..
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Post by showaddywaddywaddy on Oct 27, 2014 19:32:20 GMT 1
I think i blame Sky and in particular Andy Gray for the way the modern day fan discusses formations. During the 20 odd years i watched Town at Leeds Road before satellite dishes were invented I don't think it crossed anybody's mind whether us or the opposition were switching from a 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 and wouldn't have had a clue if they were nor given a toss. I think Powell is doing a magnificent job in turning the mindset around, suddenly all pulling together and having some fight and belief. Excellent post earlier from someone regarding Wells first half chance.. score that and we might win comfortably, who knows.. its football. The guy is paid handsomely to manage and from where i'm sitting he's managing well.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 27, 2014 20:14:24 GMT 1
I think i blame Sky and in particular Andy Gray for the way the modern day fan discusses formations. During the 20 odd years i watched Town at Leeds Road before satellite dishes were invented I don't think it crossed anybody's mind whether us or the opposition were switching from a 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 and wouldn't have had a clue if they were nor given a toss. I think Powell is doing a magnificent job in turning the mindset around, suddenly all pulling together and having some fight and belief. Excellent post earlier from someone regarding Wells first half chance.. score that and we might win comfortably, who knows.. its football. The guy is paid handsomely to manage and from where i'm sitting he's managing well. More than a grain of truth in this - to be honest I can't remember anyone playing anything but 4-4-2 in England since 1966 and Sky being invented. My playing career was probably from 1966 until 1980 and I can't ever remember lining up with anything but 4-4-2. What do lads do now on a Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning?
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