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[quote user="king canary"]There is a difference between playing a style and being so tactically naive as he was on Monday.

QPR are a long ball team and yet Farke seemed surprised at this tactic. Logic would have dictated that three central defenders would assist against the aerial bombardment and that we''d need to have the players closing down further up the pitch to prevent early balls into the box. Instead we stuck with a back 4 and played a pretty lightweight and immobile midfield that couldn''t stop balls being hurled into the box.

My concern is Farke doesn''t seem to be learning right now- what was working earlier in the season (the defence) now isn''t, what hasn''t worked all season (scoring goals) still isn''t and yet we''re asked to ignore what our eyes are seeing and believe there is progress.[/quote]
I kind of agree, which is weird because I still back Farke and think he''s a good coach. He did identify QPR played a long ball game but didn''t really play a team to combat that.
It was odd to stick Husband at left back who doesn''t win much aerial battles. But to be fair, he is slightly better than Jamal aerially so it''s not a ridiculous decision, even if I didn''t personally agree with it.
Hanley wins more aerial battles than anyone else in the team. So he was an obvious choice. Our next best is Klose, who was on the bench. Zimmerman is fairly average in terms of aerial battles won, but he''s worse than Klose and Hanley. Pinto wins nothing in the air practically but he''s our only right back.
In midfield, Hoolahan isn''t going to win much and Reed isn''t either. Murphy wins 0.2 aerial battles per game, so he''s out of the question. The only decent header of the ball in midfield is Vrancic. Which is despite the fact he''s not physically imposing. 
The problem is we didn''t have a great amount of options, but it''s clear from above we didn''t exactly help ourselves.
Saying all that, we took the lead and had we not conceded immediately afterwards maybe it would have been a different game?

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Fulham seem to have this as they seemed to break quickly at times and keep possession at others - but appeared to make the right decisions at the right time.

Isn''t that a key point. Fulham players had the ability to be accurate and at pace.

Maybe our players cannot play that way unless they do it at a slower pace.

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Yeah, a back 3 with wingbacks would have both given us more height to deal with aerial duals, more cover for midfield runners and allowed Husband/Pinto to close down higher up the pitch to prevent early crosses.

I understand the injuries but it would only have needed Klose or Raggett in for Wes or Murphy to make it work.

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[quote user="keelansgrandad"]This points up what Jim Smith has just mentioned, which is that in effect Farke is trying to produce a team that doesn''t play in the typical up-and-at-''em English style of attack, attack attack, but in a much more continental, tactically sophisticated way.

But so many of Championship teams play that way now Purple. The days of hoofball are over unless someone decides it will be a new different tactic.

Even L1 &2 teams are playing a progressive, passing, on the deck game nowadays.

I don''t follow the reasoning about the defence though. We had four centre backs available over the holiday period. Our more productive periods have come when playing three at the back. Yet we have reverted to a back four with one of the excuses being rotating, because its what everyone else does I suppose, and leaving ourselves vulnerable.

After 40 games, I find it hard to believe that he doesn''t know his best system or his best players.

Surely, many if not most of the current squad will be here next season. If they cannot improve in the amount of games they have played under DF then I don''t see where any more time is going to help.[/quote]Indeed. It sounds as if Fulham, for example, play that way. But it is still not to the taste of quite a few fans, who say it is not the way to succeed in the Championship. I think it is. But, as said earlier, the squad lacks a crucial attacker to make it work properly. As for not knowing his best system or players, is that true? That he experiments at the end of a dead season and gives game time to some fringe players doesn''t mean he doesn''t know how and who he generally he wants to play next season.

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Webber is right if you don''t like it... vote with your money if you are not happy.

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I don''t really think Fulham play in a similar style to us- they attack with more pace and have more outlets. We''re much slower both in terms of physically and mentally. We''re also hugely reliant on one player to create.

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"Webber is right if you don''t like it... vote with your money if you are not happy."

It''s his JOB to make us happy not discourage our interest.

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But what about the ones who are only happy when they''ve got something to moan about, is he prioritising them over the happy clappers?

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[quote user="BroadstairsR"]"Webber is right if you don''t like it... vote with your money if you are not happy."

It''s his JOB to make us happy not discourage our interest.[/quote]

I know that but it''s pointless having a go at the bloke as it''s water off a ducks back. If you think he has a lot to prove (I do) and don''t like his comments (I don''t) then vote with your wallet. We will be around long after he has been sacked or joined Leeds.

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[quote user="TIL 1010"]Should soon be time for Mick Dennis to make a Party Political broadcast as is the norm after a few days at a time like this. [:P][/quote]

He would appear to be less active these days as the unofficial official mouthpiece of the stowmarket socialists

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As for not knowing his best system or players, is that true? That he experiments at the end of a dead season and gives game time to some fringe players doesn''t mean he doesn''t know how and who he generally he wants to play next season.

In all probability Gunn and Maddison will not be here next season and there may well be a 50-50 chance Lewis won''t be either. Reed may return to Southampton. And will Wes be here as well.

So those playing yesterday were not really fringe players.

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