Kanadyan Kanary

The problem is the set pieces. We had problems conceding from them last season and the same has been true in pre season and last night. We don't seem to have anyone attacking the ball on defensive set pieces. We are either too busy marking zones or players, which makes us reactive, rather than proactive. I recall reading an article about Villa using Mings to attack the ball as he was the best header in the team. That makes sense to me and perhaps something we could learn from.

All this talk about playing youth and a new style of play, after 6 weeks of pre-season it is difficult to see any change/improvement. Our performances have been poor.

Doesn't look like the youth are going to get a good run out.

The concern is that we have put out an experienced team and yet they are so far off the pace.

We are way too slow in possession at the back.

Oh my... this is poor!

Since their goal, we've got nothing. Same old individual errors and they score a second. First 15 mins we were playing OK. Bring on the kids!

Two corners for them... Two free headers!

This was my fave:

They have lot of free players in the box on their corners, so I presume we are still using zonal marking.

Well taken goal by Rowe from a hoof ball.

Looks like Gibbs on for Sargent and Duffy on for Hanley at the start of the second half.

Definitely second best here and they are behind us in their pre-season preparations. Just can't work out what our tactics are. We can't keep possession and we are creating very little.

Sorry... my bad for posting on the wrong thread.

Bad Sainz error for that one. I guess we haven't cut out the individual errors.