Not really sure we have much outside of that toolkit to be honest. Anything else?
A very eloquent summary, nicely done.
I’m not in the let’s go for the old school long ball tactics in league 2 camp necessarily. We kept possession last season season and scored the most goals in the league. You cannot fluke that over a season, it can be done.
When the ‘plans’ you mention work, obviously that’s great, but it’s really low percentage stuff. It’s easy to do your homework and get tight to Hutton/Gladwin. A calculated risk of ignoring Darcy’s threat will pay off most matches. Williams is another matter, but alone is not a force enough to get us promoted.
Our possession seems pointless most of the time. Passing sides that are any good are not passing for the sake of it, but are working on exploiting an identified weak link, or targeting an area of the pitch to overload, or aiming to manoeuvre the defence out of position, or changing tempo quickly and breaking through defensive lines with incisive runs/slick passing moves.
My main gripe, I think, is that everything we do is so slow that we cannot begin to do any of that. We can dress it up by talking about about box entries, touches in opponents third, xG etc, but the fact is we are just not very dangerous, and worse it’s dull as fuck to watch. Who, that wasn’t already a fan, would deliberately pay to watch training ground tempo.
So how do we move forward from here?
