Post off the official Site: Worthy please read this ....

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Post off the official Site:

Now, there is no point keep bidding for strikers.

We have enough quality strikers at this club to be amongst the top scorers in the league quite easily. There is also no point in signing ineffectual players such as Robinson who offer no creativity whatsoever. Hopefully everyone has got the message now that hard work (Although an essential part of success) does not bring success by itself. Running around like a headless chicken is not football.

The real problem lies in creativity from midfield and building up attacks from our back four.

What has happened to Green''s throw to the full back? What''s happened to the movement? What''s happened to creating space and our players actually wanting the ball?

Why do we have no right sided attacks? Balance is vital in football, and we don''t have it.

Playing 4-4-2...What should be happening is this:

When we''re in possession, Safri should be coming deep to receive the ball from the centre backs...The left and right back should push forward and the centre backs push wider. Safri has options left and right. Our other central midfield should be looking for space and gaps, as should Huckerby on the left. McVeigh, playing just off of Ashton should also be looking for gaps to receive passes. This will enable our full backs to get forward and overlap/cut in and cross/pass.

We pride ourselves on fitness, so covering the pitch should not be a problem. Safri is simply backing up play, and if we''re attacking down the left, our right back simply has to tuck in to provided a bit more cover and vice versa.

Another thing, is we defend FAR too deep as a team. Simon Charlton has said before that ideally the back four and front two are not more than 30 yards apart. However, we sit so deep, that our midfield is dragged on top of them, and we struggle to get out...So then what happens? That''s it, LONG BALL TIME! That''s not us, that''s not Norwich City FC.

Also, nobody seems to track runs from midfield...Countless times last season our midfield was bypassed by the simplest of balls all because our midfield just let the opposition run past us!

We have good, positive players at this club...Let''s start playing football the proper way, entertaining our amazing fans, not playing the whack and hope.

Dean Ashton should work the width of the penalty area, not the channels.

I think that''s about it for now...

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Couldn''t agree more with your central argument, building up attacks through the midfield rather than over and by-passing them.But a good passing movement involves players who can actually pass straight and with the correct weight. It also involves players who are comfortable on the ball actually running into space,thus making themslves available Good examples were the first two goals at Bramall Lane. In the first McV was quick to pick  up Robinson''s header, stole a yard or two on ponderous defenders who had to turn, and he finished well. This was a quick goal out of nothing. Ashton was in space for the secnd.One of our problems is that few of our midfielders, in everything excepting Safri, can pass well and consistently. They lack control, panic and mis-pass. Above all they do not consistently anticipate passes and run into space.Many years ago I was taught that two players can always beat one player, so long as they can pass and control the ball on receiving it. Even little triangles help, if possession is retained rather than given away. Worthy seems to have turned his face away from creative skill to hard work and running. This might not be so bad if the midfielders could control and pass the ball to one of our own players. Instead, they are caught in possession, which reinforces the tendency to panic and give the ball away.

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Huckerby, McVeigh, Ashton and Safri in the same team.  That is 40% of our outfield players classed as creative, some central, some deep and some left. (missing abit on the right...would have been Marney).

Most teams would kill to have 4 players with that much creativity in the 11. 

 

Southampon used to have one...Le Tissier.  And 9 other blokes who worked and ran and covered for him so that he could swan around all game and then volley it into the top corner in the last minute.

Perhaps all the players should take some blame for our current underperfomance and not just the ones people don''t like.

 

For every Ian Crook there had to be a Gary Megson.  For every Darren Huckerby there had to be a Gary Holt. 

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Basically, we need a decent right winger. Would make us balanced, far less predictable and a match for anyone in this division IMO.

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Huckerby, McVeigh, Ashton and Safri in the same team.  That is 40% of our outfield players classed as creative, some central, some deep and some left. (missing abit on the right...would have been Marney).

Most teams would kill to have 4 players with that much creativity in the 11. 

 

Southampon used to have one...Le Tissier.  And 9 other blokes who worked and ran and covered for him so that he could swan around all game and then volley it into the top corner in the last minute.

Perhaps all the players should take some blame for our current underperfomance and not just the ones people don''t like.

 

For every Ian Crook there had to be a Gary Megson.  For every Darren Huckerby there had to be a Gary Holt. 

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Safri is a good passer, and we miss him. Shows that when you add another ok passer in there, robinson say, we did very well.

Ashton is not particuarly creative but a good footballer. Its all well and good to get the ball to Hucks but when you have no threat from the anywhere else he just gets marked to the hilt. Its funny, when worthy was forced to play another creative attacker WLY, we start winning...

Marney was another worker from what i saw of him - he took a good corner didnt do much else in the games he played. He certainly wasnt skinning any full backs or putting over many crosses

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[quote user="Paul Rankin"]Post off the official Site:

Now, there is no point keep bidding for strikers.

We have enough quality strikers at this club to be amongst the top scorers in the league quite easily. There is also no point in signing ineffectual players such as Robinson who offer no creativity whatsoever. Hopefully everyone has got the message now that hard work (Although an essential part of success) does not bring success by itself. Running around like a headless chicken is not football.

The real problem lies in creativity from midfield and building up attacks from our back four.

What has happened to Green''s throw to the full back? What''s happened to the movement? What''s happened to creating space and our players actually wanting the ball?

Why do we have no right sided attacks? Balance is vital in football, and we don''t have it.

Playing 4-4-2...What should be happening is this:

When we''re in possession, Safri should be coming deep to receive the ball from the centre backs...The left and right back should push forward and the centre backs push wider. Safri has options left and right. Our other central midfield should be looking for space and gaps, as should Huckerby on the left. McVeigh, playing just off of Ashton should also be looking for gaps to receive passes. This will enable our full backs to get forward and overlap/cut in and cross/pass.

We pride ourselves on fitness, so covering the pitch should not be a problem. Safri is simply backing up play, and if we''re attacking down the left, our right back simply has to tuck in to provided a bit more cover and vice versa.

Another thing, is we defend FAR too deep as a team. Simon Charlton has said before that ideally the back four and front two are not more than 30 yards apart. However, we sit so deep, that our midfield is dragged on top of them, and we struggle to get out...So then what happens? That''s it, LONG BALL TIME! That''s not us, that''s not Norwich City FC.

Also, nobody seems to track runs from midfield...Countless times last season our midfield was bypassed by the simplest of balls all because our midfield just let the opposition run past us!

We have good, positive players at this club...Let''s start playing football the proper way, entertaining our amazing fans, not playing the whack and hope.

Dean Ashton should work the width of the penalty area, not the channels.

I think that''s about it for now...[/quote]

 

I felt I had a better chance of NW reading this if I posted it on the Official Site.