Christy
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« Reply #284 on: Sunday, February 5, 2017, 22:12:31 » |
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Lots of sound points I agree with - Venks, Costanza, aroundthefur for example from the last couple of pages. So my turn and right, let's try to do this without getting sweary or too ranty.
The real shaking, anger rage stuff for me was the last home game, lining up with Kasim, Colkett, Gladein and Goddard in midfield: all dandy and fine individually, but utterly ill suited to the rigours of playing together to win a professional game of football. You simply cannot play four wannabe no.10s. One of those luxury lightweights or two at most, if it's one up top - supplemented by a gnarly artisan or three. If that wasn't blindingly obvious after the say, Eastleigh game, then I despair. And boy, do I despair,
So it was hope rather than expectation that took me over the roundabout at Honda, when I heard the team and my head said turn the heck round and go home. And if we don't have some hope, then what's left? So yes, we are playing three of those, it is hard to see how the hell we're stronger after the window, but you never know...
And for half an hour we did play as well as we have in a long while - let's be fair in giving praise for creating genuine opportunities, playing with pace, verve and enthusiasm, thoroughly deserving of being in front, and putting our mid table visitors on the back foot. However, we didn't exploit a number of promising situations with desperate defending or poor decision keeping the score down. But, fine margins and all that - for me the momentum changed in a breathless spell before half time - there were a couple of fantastic end to end passages of play, with both teams giving everything toe to toe. The glorious chance then came, it was ours, and miserably fluffed by Colkett, it felt as good as a goal to them., smack on half time.
Tactically they had our number in September, and today again, we had no response to their change. Even so, they went gung ho early and once more we missed numerous chances to play a killer ball to set Ajose free. Norris, fantastic in the first half, didn't win another ball. Our midfield was utterly over-run, and it was bizarre, frustrating and fateful that no changes were made. Lamentably, even whilst winning we lost semblance of shape and control - Jones losing the ball 20 yards out of position on the half way line was the source of the first goal, then Kasim doing likewise from our advantage for the second. In professional football terms, this is criminal. There are a million aspects of being a great coach and whilst I'll be the last one standing to defend our high risk purity, I also demand that we are disciplined, resolute and defensively capable.
Conor Thomas having about three goes at tieing his sodding laces up two minutes after coming on, whilst we were defending, sums up this miserable shambles.
Reality bites hard - we bring about 15 players in during January, and still have to bring Thomas and Hylton on. We have changed nothing in developing a more robust, aggressive style relevant to winning professional games of football. We capitulate, mentally and physically under pressure because we didn't expect to be winning, or it was too noisy or we're still learning or because we forgot that we were supposed to 'go again' or because that's just what we do.
And yeah, just what I do is think, I might well go to Bury. You know I could drop Colkett, Gladwin and Feruz off somewhere and pick up Tom Smith and Rohan Ince. I just hope there aren't too many roundabouts on the way.
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