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Post by Dan on Aug 28, 2022 10:01:17 GMT 1
I’ve searched around but can’t find the stats. Our pass completions is woeful. How often do we mis place our passes when under no pressure. Also think Rhodes needs to start or at least come on much earlier. Nothing is sticking with ward at the moment I'd love to know how they define a clear cut chance. They've said we had zero but Tino's 2nd goal was a one on one from 8 yards and Rhodes had a chance on his head 6 yards out. |
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Aug 28, 2022 10:01:25 GMT 1
Although many are hyper critical of Russell, sadly there were many Town players giving the ball away in our own half, in midfield. Although Danny Ward worked, he didn't hold the ball up, that changed when Jordan came with approx 8 mins to go, far too late. Ball retention is a major challenge, it must improve - UTT. I’ve searched around but can’t find the stats. Our pass completions is woeful. How often do we mis place our passes when under no pressure. Also think Rhodes needs to start or at least come on much earlier. Nothing is sticking with ward at the moment I certainly would agree on Rhodes, we know he has goals in him and the Jordan Rhodes of10 years ago would have buried that header. |
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Post by tepidterrier on Aug 28, 2022 10:04:20 GMT 1
I'm still at a loss as to what Schofield's tactical philosophy is. There was some lovely individual bits of play amongst all that but no control of the game, that gaping hole between the defence and midfield again, and some of that ridiculous disorganised ball chasing defending we saw in Carlos' first season. 2 cracking goals from Tino, what a player. Ruffels would've been a great goal but it made me laugh as it was just another first time hoof from him. Entertaining game of football but I think we're definitely in trouble here. I was prepared to be patient for the first few games, but at the end of the day we're in the relegation zone. Now I'm wondering how long is long enough Were you still laughing to yourself when you saw on the highlights that it was anything but another first time hoof from Ruffels? If that had been Tino no doubt you’d have been disappointed that a great strike hadn’t resulted in his hat trick. Town fans eh? You couldn’t make it up. Lighten up ffs. I thought Ruffels had his best game of the season, and was making a joke about his tendency to hoof it in other situations. I made that post when I was on the way home from the game, sorry for not analysing the highlights and running it by you first! Town fans eh? |
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Post by drumriggend on Aug 28, 2022 10:07:47 GMT 1
Disjointed performance again for me..
We don’t seem to have a system of play..
Tino was awesome..
Ruffles best game yet..
Russell drifts in and out of games..
Why the fooook do we persist in playing sorba on the left 🤷🤷
We have some good individuals but no system or method..
Get Wagner back in..
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Post by griffa on Aug 28, 2022 10:10:36 GMT 1
Agree with your comments, I sit in that area of the ground, almost inline with the tackle, not a penalty for me - UTT. Clear penalty, just shown it on the highlights programme. Not seen the extended highlights, watched it in real time close up, looked like Boyle won the ball & Grant went down afterwards, to me. Unlike you I do not dissect every Town incident, the Referee called it as he saw it, the Ref failed to award a foul, when the WBA completely cleared out Danny Ward, near the half way line, any comment about that incident. Games are won & lost based on the decisions of match officials. Feel your frustration, so far this season we're vulnerable. I've learned not to constantly try to re-run games, based on if's & but's, referee's decision drive me crackers, but we have to accept them & move on. How did you see the Playoff Final penalty decisions? Even now it's clear, that after the first few performances & results, we're in a relegation fight. Better in my opinion to get behind the lads & support the team, in difficult times - UTT. |
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Post by turbo2 on Aug 28, 2022 10:14:31 GMT 1
I'd love to know how they define a clear cut chance. They've said we had zero but Tino's 2nd goal was a one on one from 8 yards and Rhodes had a chance on his head 6 yards out. Nice one. 60% pass completion. Pathetic really and along with fitness levels is what is killing us. |
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Post by Yuta be a terrier on Aug 28, 2022 10:20:07 GMT 1
I'd love to know how they define a clear cut chance. They've said we had zero but Tino's 2nd goal was a one on one from 8 yards and Rhodes had a chance on his head 6 yards out. Nice one. 60% pass completion. Pathetic really and along with fitness levels is what is killing us. The attacking passes stat is pretty awful especially compared to WBA. |
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Post by turbo2 on Aug 28, 2022 10:21:56 GMT 1
Nice one. 60% pass completion. Pathetic really and along with fitness levels is what is killing us. The attacking passes stat is pretty awful especially compared to WBA. I’m not a twatter user. Is this type of format of stats available every week?? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 10:22:12 GMT 1
I missed the Stoke game so it was an improvement on Burnley and Preston. First 30 mins was good. We caused them problems going forwards, scored two good goals and they didn’t break us down. The problems were of our own making when we tried to overplay at the back. It would have been a different story if we got in at 2-0 at half time. People slagging us off for hitting long but what did you expect Nicholls to do? They were pressing 5/6 players right onto the edge of our box for goal kicks. He had the choice of passing to someone under pressure or hitting it long. West Brom were also leave us 3 v 3 on the halfway line so it was a real opportunity to get at them. The defence did ok other than pissing around with the ball in the first half. Yuta’s passing wasn’t great but defended ok. REG controlled Grant although he was helped by them hitting it long to Grant. Everyone knows he isn’t a loan striker and won’t win anything in the air. Shame Tino can’t last a bit longer. We need people on the pitch who can carry the ball forwards. Maybe Jones will be able to do that off the bench. Russell was the only weak link. Gave the ball away, offered nothing going forwards and was always a few yards away from the opposition. A draw wasn’t a bad result, just a shame we let a 2-0 lead slip. I’d be more annoyed if I was a West Brom fan. They are 3 points ahead of us having played a game more and other than Nichols, Tino and Rudoni were man for man better than us. Although many are hyper critical of Russell, sadly there were many Town players giving the ball away in our own half, in midfield. Although Danny Ward worked, he didn't hold the ball up, that changed when Jordan came with approx 8 mins to go, far too late. Ball retention is a major challenge, it must improve - UTT. Jordan coming on coincided with Holmes and Camara in midfield. That gave KKH more support and Rudoni, which is why we looked brighter the last 15 minutes. It is rarely one player, more often the dynamic of that player and his teammates. I thought the 3 centre backs played well but to my knowledge that is the first time they have played as a 3 together. I think that is why we left gaps for both goals. It was tough without Hogg. Russell and Tino are both generally slow and midfield looked ponderous at times. Tino is quick on the break but steady when covering. That wasn’t the side Danny would have chosen with all available but the match squad showed promise in spells. It was a lot better than against Burnley. |
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Post by garyroberts'leftfoot on Aug 28, 2022 10:24:08 GMT 1
I’ve searched around but can’t find the stats. Our pass completions is woeful. How often do we mis place our passes when under no pressure. Also think Rhodes needs to start or at least come on much earlier. Nothing is sticking with ward at the moment 173 completed passes in the attacking third against 25 for us stands out to me. Shows that we really allow teams into our third and sit off allowing them to pass. It was the same under corboran and does my head in. We don’t bother engaging the opposition until they are at the edge of our box. Other teams do it on the halfway line or even higher up and we aren’t allowed anything like as much time and space on the ball. Probably sums us why I enjoyed watching Wagners team in the championship so much more than corboran/schofields. Wagners teams went for the opposition and it felt like we were trying to impose ourselves rather than allowing the opposition to control the game. |
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Post by willo on Aug 28, 2022 11:25:14 GMT 1
The biggest worry for me at the moment is the fitness of the players. They all seem battered after an hour or so. Schofield was slow to make a sub today. Tino was struggling to move before the equaliser then he got brought off. He should have been off 5-10 mins earlier. We’ve just had a 10 day break from games and DS mentioned how well they used them 10 days, but as far as I can see we’re still not fit. Said exactly that coming out of the ground. We’re just not fit. Blowing out of our arses after 60 mins, some long before that. Lots of positive stuff today against a decent wba. Still think we need a couple of bodies in. Agree turbo. Only seen the Burnley horror show and then yesterday’s game but big improvement from one to another although ultimately, the GK won us that point yesterday. We are still lacking players in key areas and this will hopefully be rectified the next few days. Still not completely sure on Danny’s tactics, he wouldn’t have been my choice for manager/head coach and there is better out there but I’d be very surprised if Dean changed it now. Just have to hope he “grows” into the role. A season of transition beckons where I think we’ll finish just below halfway (unless 2/3 very inspired signings walk through the door this week). |
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Post by Yuta be a terrier on Aug 28, 2022 11:28:36 GMT 1
Nice one. 60% pass completion. Pathetic really and along with fitness levels is what is killing us. The attacking passes stat is pretty awful especially compared to WBA. Yeah same account every weel. Whosgoal are pretty good online as well |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 28, 2022 12:11:04 GMT 1
173 completed passes in the attacking third against 25 for us stands out to me. Shows that we really allow teams into our third and sit off allowing them to pass. It was the same under corboran and does my head in. We don’t bother engaging the opposition until they are at the edge of our box. Other teams do it on the halfway line or even higher up and we aren’t allowed anything like as much time and space on the ball. Probably sums us why I enjoyed watching Wagners team in the championship so much more than corboran/schofields. Wagners teams went for the opposition and it felt like we were trying to impose ourselves rather than allowing the opposition to control the game. We drop too deep, too quickly and stay there too long. It was a habit we dropped into fairly often last season, this low block bollocks. Yesterday we did it for a couple of periods and we conceded twice. Get that sorted and defend higher for longer, not the halfway line but 5 to 10 yards higher and we do better. |
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Post by ACW on Aug 28, 2022 12:29:12 GMT 1
I missed the Stoke game so it was an improvement on Burnley and Preston. First 30 mins was good. We caused them problems going forwards, scored two good goals and they didn’t break us down. The problems were of our own making when we tried to overplay at the back. It would have been a different story if we got in at 2-0 at half time. People slagging us off for hitting long but what did you expect Nicholls to do? They were pressing 5/6 players right onto the edge of our box for goal kicks. He had the choice of passing to someone under pressure or hitting it long. West Brom were also leave us 3 v 3 on the halfway line so it was a real opportunity to get at them. The defence did ok other than pissing around with the ball in the first half. Yuta’s passing wasn’t great but defended ok. REG controlled Grant although he was helped by them hitting it long to Grant. Everyone knows he isn’t a loan striker and won’t win anything in the air. Shame Tino can’t last a bit longer. We need people on the pitch who can carry the ball forwards. Maybe Jones will be able to do that off the bench. Russell was the only weak link. Gave the ball away, offered nothing going forwards and was always a few yards away from the opposition. A draw wasn’t a bad result, just a shame we let a 2-0 lead slip. I’d be more annoyed if I was a West Brom fan. They are 3 points ahead of us having played a game more and other than Nichols, Tino and Rudoni were man for man better than us. Re: Nicholls long kicks. He hit it long even when a shorter ball to a man in space was on. When he hit it long, it was nearly always to Ward who was either on his own or had Sorba somewhere near. I didn't see the ball going up to three Town players in a position to a) win it and b) retain it. I didn't see any real opportunities to "get at them" from this tactic. I agree that Nicholls shouldn't be playing short balls to players who are marked, but he's obviously been instructed to hit it long irrespective of what other options are on. And these tactics invariably don't work because we just give the ball away and invite pressure. And even though it obviously wasn't working, Schofield did nothing to change it. We're in a worrying position if our we are so poor in possession that we almost accept we're going to lose it so just launch the ball into supposedly "safer" areas. And these tactics have been evident in all Town's game this season. It's obviously the way Schofield wants us to play. |
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Post by loumacari on Aug 28, 2022 12:29:47 GMT 1
Said exactly that coming out of the ground. We’re just not fit. Blowing out of our arses after 60 mins, some long before that. Lots of positive stuff today against a decent wba. Still think we need a couple of bodies in. Agree turbo. Only seen the Burnley horror show and then yesterday’s game but big improvement from one to another although ultimately, the GK won us that point yesterday. We are still lacking players in key areas and this will hopefully be rectified the next few days. Still not completely sure on Danny’s tactics, he wouldn’t have been my choice for manager/head coach and there is better out there but I’d be very surprised if Dean changed it now. Just have to hope he “grows” into the role. A season of transition beckons where I think we’ll finish just below halfway (unless 2/3 very inspired signings walk through the door this week). I’m really struggling to find 3 sides we’ll finish above, never mind 10 based on how we’ve started. Sides that I would’ve had down to be doomed like Reading and even Rotherham have started quite well. |
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Post by ACW on Aug 28, 2022 12:34:53 GMT 1
I'd love to know how they define a clear cut chance. They've said we had zero but Tino's 2nd goal was a one on one from 8 yards and Rhodes had a chance on his head 6 yards out. Nice one. 60% pass completion. Pathetic really and along with fitness levels is what is killing us. The fitness issue is a worry, but it's a hard game to play when you are constantly chasing the ball. We need desperately to work on our fitness, but we also need to work on our ball retention so we can try to move the opposition around and tire them out, rather than the other way around. |
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Post by Waterloo Terrier on Aug 28, 2022 12:38:27 GMT 1
Think that is probably why Tino is so gassed all the time. I bet when he was playing for Chelsea U23s he didn’t have to spend 70/80% of his time getting into a defensive shape.
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Post by impact on Aug 28, 2022 12:42:36 GMT 1
To add some balance, against the same opposition at home last year we had 36% of the ball, had a pass accuracy of 55% and managed 6 shots to WBA's 20.
And we were playing 10 men for 15 mins of that.
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Post by benhomly on Aug 28, 2022 12:58:54 GMT 1
Were you still laughing to yourself when you saw on the highlights that it was anything but another first time hoof from Ruffels? If that had been Tino no doubt you’d have been disappointed that a great strike hadn’t resulted in his hat trick. Town fans eh? You couldn’t make it up. Lighten up ffs. I thought Ruffels had his best game of the season, and was making a joke about his tendency to hoof it in other situations. I made that post when I was on the way home from the game, sorry for not analysing the highlights and running it by you first! Town fans eh? You don’t have to run it by me first, just get your facts straight before having a pop at one of this seasons scapegoats * might’ve helped if you’d said you thought he’d had his best game of the season so far eh? |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 28, 2022 14:35:38 GMT 1
To add some balance, against the same opposition at home last year we had 36% of the ball, had a pass accuracy of 55% and managed 6 shots to WBA's 20. And we were playing 10 men for 15 mins of that. Last year WBA missed some serious chances, this year they didnt but we still had the best 2 chances from 2-2 onwards. Not sure why we are so down on ourselves?  |
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Post by ACW on Aug 28, 2022 14:59:37 GMT 1
To add some balance, against the same opposition at home last year we had 36% of the ball, had a pass accuracy of 55% and managed 6 shots to WBA's 20. And we were playing 10 men for 15 mins of that. Last year WBA missed some serious chances, this year they didnt but we still had the best 2 chances from 2-2 onwards. Not sure why we are so down on ourselves? Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 28, 2022 15:03:48 GMT 1
Last year WBA missed some serious chances, this year they didnt but we still had the best 2 chances from 2-2 onwards. Not sure why we are so down on ourselves? Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. Its an opinion..The general standard of our play many times last season obtained results that had me and many others shaking their heads on the way home after the match. The general standard of play in this division is reasonably level other than the couple of teams that consistently play well enough to win many games, so many points won and lost in matches where the 'better' team, playing 'better' football with more possession and shots stats etc didnt win. |
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Post by ACW on Aug 28, 2022 15:14:49 GMT 1
Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. Its an opinion..The general standard of our play many times last season obtained results that had me and many others shaking their heads on the way home after the match. The general standard of play in this division is reasonably level other than the couple of teams that consistently play well enough to win many games, so many points won and lost in matches where the 'better' team, playing 'better' football with more possession and shots stats etc didnt win. I'm happy with my opinion that sustaining 30% possession and a 60% pass completion rate over the season will lead to nothing more than a relegation battle. The likes of Tino and Nicholls won't be able to bale us out every week. |
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Post by Melc on Aug 28, 2022 15:24:35 GMT 1
Disjointed performance again for me.. We don’t seem to have a system of play.. Tino was awesome.. Ruffles best game yet.. Russell drifts in and out of games.. Why the fooook do we persist in playing sorba on the left 🤷🤷 We have some good individuals but no system or method.. Get Wagner back in.. 🍻 A coach that simply does not have a clue. Them stats further up the thread are embarrassing for a home team. Just a pity our owner to be does not have any ambition. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 15:40:14 GMT 1
Last year WBA missed some serious chances, this year they didnt but we still had the best 2 chances from 2-2 onwards. Not sure why we are so down on ourselves? Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. A regularly changing defence, need to get that nailed but injury and suspension made that tough yesterday. No Hogg, so a lot more pressure on the back 3. Very slow midfield, which we can improve. I think Russell started because Hogg was out and he is more experienced than Camara. Other than Hogg we have struggled with that deep midfield role and, as has been said, having Toffolo & O’Brien as targets made it easier to break forward. Given those issues, which are not of Danny’s making, were we so much better against WBA last year? |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 28, 2022 15:56:26 GMT 1
Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. A regularly changing defence, need to get that nailed but injury and suspension made that tough yesterday. No Hogg, so a lot more pressure on the back 3. Very slow midfield, which we can improve. I think Russell started because Hogg was out and he is more experienced than Camara. Other than Hogg we have struggled with that deep midfield role and, as has been said, having Toffolo & O’Brien as targets made it easier to break forward. Given those issues, which are not of Danny’s making, were we so much better against WBA last year? The answer is we were incredibly average quite a lot last season. Set plays, good keeping and luck at the right time were quite prominent, we found a way to play but it did quite often depend on the above. The stars align every so often for teams that cant or wont buy success. The loss of Pearson is causing us more issues than say the loss of Hogg or Sorba etc simply because Colvile and Sarr are not here. This is being rectified now. The loss of Tofollo going forward and the work rate of O Brien will take a while to sort out. Its a few games in and we are sourcing a centre half and another striker, an injury to a box to box midfielder hasnt helped but the 'new boys' didnt do badly yesterday. I know the problems we have but solutions are not easily found overnight and had Jordan chalked his head before coming on we would have won the game, its fine lines AGAIN but they are not going for us like last season, yet. |
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Post by ACW on Aug 28, 2022 16:04:09 GMT 1
Because the general standard of our play does not currently look anywhere near good enough for anything bar a relegation fight. A regularly changing defence, need to get that nailed but injury and suspension made that tough yesterday. No Hogg, so a lot more pressure on the back 3. Very slow midfield, which we can improve. I think Russell started because Hogg was out and he is more experienced than Camara. Other than Hogg we have struggled with that deep midfield role and, as has been said, having Toffolo & O’Brien as targets made it easier to break forward. Given those issues, which are not of Danny’s making, were we so much better against WBA last year? You make good points. However, I'm not comparing this game with the one against WBA last season. I'm comparing our general standard of play this season with our general standard from last season.There were plenty of poor performance s last season, but I saw a team with an identity that played to a structure/style/system the players were familiar with. I see no such direction this season. There are mitigating factors of course, but even taking these into account, I am worried by the lack of direction I see on the pitch. Our players look like they are battling to stay in games with the hope something may happen to enable us to get a result. I see little structure or purpose to our play which would enable us to gain a measure of control in games. I said in an earlier post, we play "hopeful" football rather than having an established structure/style that we try to impose on the opposition. Town played poorly at times under Wagner and Corberan, but we still had an established identity. We all knew the plan even if it wasn't implemented very well on the day. What is our plan now? I don't know what it is and the players are playing like they don't know either. There are few partnerships being established, or patterns of play. Losing our better players has had an effect, as has being unable to field our strongest team due to injuries, but IMO we should be able to play with more direction and cohesion. At the moment we struggle to get out of our half, retain possession, and create any sustained pressure in the opposition's half. At the other end, we are defending our box with everyone behind the ball, yet we still rely on our goalie to pull out multiple saves every game. As it stands, I am very concerned. |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 28, 2022 16:20:49 GMT 1
A regularly changing defence, need to get that nailed but injury and suspension made that tough yesterday. No Hogg, so a lot more pressure on the back 3. Very slow midfield, which we can improve. I think Russell started because Hogg was out and he is more experienced than Camara. Other than Hogg we have struggled with that deep midfield role and, as has been said, having Toffolo & O’Brien as targets made it easier to break forward. Given those issues, which are not of Danny’s making, were we so much better against WBA last year? You make good points. However, I'm not comparing this game with the one against WBA last season. I'm comparing our general standard of play this season with our general standard from last season.There were plenty of poor performance s last season, but I saw a team with an identity that played to a structure/style/system the players were familiar with. I see no such direction this season. There are mitigating factors of course, but even taking these into account, I am worried by the lack of direction I see on the pitch. Our players look like they are battling to stay in games with the hope something may happen to enable us to get a result. I see little structure or purpose to our play which would enable us to gain a measure of control in games. I said in an earlier post, we play "hopeful" football rather than having an established structure/style that we try to impose on the opposition. Town played poorly at times under Wagner and Corberan, but we still had an established identity. We all knew the plan even if it wasn't implemented very well on the day. What is our plan now? I don't know what it is and the players are playing like they don't know either. There are few partnerships being established, or patterns of play. Losing our better players has had an effect, as has being unable to field our strongest team due to injuries, but IMO we should be able to play with more direction and cohesion. At the moment we struggle to get out of our half, retain possession, and create any sustained pressure in the opposition's half. At the other end, we are defending our box with everyone behind the ball, yet we still rely on our goalie to pull out multiple saves every game. As it stands, I am very concerned. Go too deep, too quick, too narrow and stay in too long. It can be sorted. Pace put into the centre back area will help. Real pace in attack will further help, we often play too slowly and too short and it leads to losing the ball in the wrong places. I think Camara will improve and Rudoni is getting to the pace. Tino with more in the tank could be a real ball carrier for us. Russell looked better yesterday but has to impprove his fitness. The Japanese lad made more interceptions than the rest put together, he can play the game at this level. Its a question of us being more pro active and defending higher with the new lads bedding in. In 7 or 8 games time, you can tell me I was miles off. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 20:02:55 GMT 1
You make good points. However, I'm not comparing this game with the one against WBA last season. I'm comparing our general standard of play this season with our general standard from last season.There were plenty of poor performance s last season, but I saw a team with an identity that played to a structure/style/system the players were familiar with. I see no such direction this season. There are mitigating factors of course, but even taking these into account, I am worried by the lack of direction I see on the pitch. Our players look like they are battling to stay in games with the hope something may happen to enable us to get a result. I see little structure or purpose to our play which would enable us to gain a measure of control in games. I said in an earlier post, we play "hopeful" football rather than having an established structure/style that we try to impose on the opposition. Town played poorly at times under Wagner and Corberan, but we still had an established identity. We all knew the plan even if it wasn't implemented very well on the day. What is our plan now? I don't know what it is and the players are playing like they don't know either. There are few partnerships being established, or patterns of play. Losing our better players has had an effect, as has being unable to field our strongest team due to injuries, but IMO we should be able to play with more direction and cohesion. At the moment we struggle to get out of our half, retain possession, and create any sustained pressure in the opposition's half. At the other end, we are defending our box with everyone behind the ball, yet we still rely on our goalie to pull out multiple saves every game. As it stands, I am very concerned. Go too deep, too quick, too narrow and stay in too long. It can be sorted. Pace put into the centre back area will help. Real pace in attack will further help, we often play too slowly and too short and it leads to losing the ball in the wrong places. I think Camara will improve and Rudoni is getting to the pace. Tino with more in the tank could be a real ball carrier for us. Russell looked better yesterday but has to impprove his fitness. The Japanese lad made more interceptions than the rest put together, he can play the game at this level. Its a question of us being more pro active and defending higher with the new lads bedding in. In 7 or 8 games time, you can tell me I was miles off. I think that is right. If we get the 19 year old 6'2" Man City centre back that could put us in Levi Colwill territory. We may not have passed out from the back because there were concerns the 3 centre halfs would strugle. Simpson I have no idea how he will manage at this level but as we saw with Tino yesterday, pace, strength and a decent shot can get you a long way. There were signs yesterday of our problems and our stengths. If we can cut down the problems and build on the strengths it would make a huge difference. I think a good back 3 is crucial and we have not found that group yet. |
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Post by specialun on Aug 28, 2022 21:32:21 GMT 1
I don’t understand the shock at disjointed performances / style points
Of course it looks disjointed in parts…
Just 3 of yesterday’s starting XI started the play off final 6 games ago
It’s hardly going to be coherent for 90 minutes is it?
Given resources, lack of squad depth, injuries / absences I think that’s a very good point.
Take Eiting - wasn’t even on bench in play off final - he’d walk into the team now
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