On a different topic, ou est Le Duke? Always liked his generally well-informed and balanced posts and respected his cool when replying to posters challenging his views in an aggressive manner.
I spoke to Duke a couple of days ago, he is ok and just staying away from the forum due partly I am sure to the utter negativity he faces when he posts, hes had a rough few months away from football and is slightly disillusioned with the football served up but still reads the TEF.
Williams I think would be much more effective dropping back in midfield and playing the ‘Payne’ role
Which is basically his prefered role so I hear, hes a central attacking midfielder not a wide man.
Obviously different people will have different opinions but for me - the players are good enough (and personally I think a lot of them are capable of improving)
It’s just the attacking players. We seemingly have three central strikers in Jephcott, Wakeling and now Austin but the wide strikers in 433 don’t do enough, offer enough. In part as those players aren’t good enough or have be played there despite it not being their position. We also lack a central midfielder who will drive the ball forward like Payne did (fwiw I think Darcy could be that player but this season you are seeing the difference between a 22 year old with 60 odd games under his belt before this season vs a 27 year old with 300+ games under his belt)
I’ve got the point where I genuinely believe I could pick a better formation / starting XI than Lindsey which to be anyway, indicates that’s where the problem is.
People can and will differ on that though…
I too agree, I think the players have way more ability and prospects than they are currently showing, not everyone thinks the players arent good enough, they are just not being played to their strengths, or not having their strengths recognised by the coaching staff/manager IMO.
We have a solid mid/upper table team but with good coaching and the right tactics that can easily get better, look at Mansfield away only a few week ago.
As I have said to several TEF'rs off the forum is that last season we has 2 players that could create things and score goals on their own, thats McKirdy and Payne, they gave us a total of 36 goals an numerous assists.
They have moved on and we have moved on but we don't have 1 let alone 2 players to replace those goals, add to that Simpson pre January who bagged 11 goals in half a season and thats 47 goals missing and not replaced.
Anyone for the Cowley brothers? Just been sacked.
No, god no, awful managers with poor 1 dimensional tactics and no plan B, ask Pompey fans
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