curious yellow 184 Posted June 20, 2020 The restart has left the club in a difficult position. To carry on without support and proper levels of fitness is alien to the professional game and are two factors which has put our club where it is. The drinks breaks and amount of substitutes are ridiculous and break up the flow of the game. They might just have well said finish the season with an under 16 five-a-side tournament. You could argue that it's the same for every Premier team, but it's not because we are so far behind everyone else. We have had to try to be bold but unfortunately it has backfired. The extra push in training has increased the injury problems, when other clubs' injury situation has improved. Yesterday we played a more attacking line up, the intent was there and we looked excellent in the first ten minutes. The fitness wasn't there to back up the intent, heads began to drop and we got progressively worse. No way would we have produced that performance under normal circumstances. This virus has dramatically changed our lives, we have lost our family, friends and jobs. When most of us had already accepted our fate, I can't see any fairness in making any judgement from a money-based charade Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Branston Pickle 3,263 Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) I don’t disagree too much, the motivation for the restart is very much money based/seen as good PR by the govt, but it is what it is and for whatever reason we were extremely poor yesterday after the first 15 minutes. For some reason or another, we simply don’t appear to have the right players for a 442 formation - at least, not those playing yesterday - and we just melted away. We need the protection/enforcer role that Tettey provides. Amadou was meant to provide that role but for one reason or another didn’t fit. Quite why Farke chose yesterday to change the way we’ve played for the last couple of seasons is anyone’s guess but he hopefully won’t do it again unless/until we have the right players fit and ready for it. Edited June 20, 2020 by Branston Pickle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ron obvious 1,412 Posted June 20, 2020 I was only able to watch a couple of minutes, soon after the start. It coincided with the Drmic chance, a result of some marvellous build up play, but when we fluffed it I knew we were going to repeat the pattern of so many matches this season. We just seem terrified to shoot. We often create loads of decent opportunities but are simply too timid to take them We want cast iron, guaranteed opportunities which just do not happen at this level. We must learn to be prepared to fail. To put it another way, we are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Or alternatively again, JUST HIT THE $%^&*ING THING!!!!!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yellowrider120 635 Posted June 20, 2020 53 minutes ago, ron obvious said: I was only able to watch a couple of minutes, soon after the start. It coincided with the Drmic chance, a result of some marvellous build up play, but when we fluffed it I knew we were going to repeat the pattern of so many matches this season. We just seem terrified to shoot. We often create loads of decent opportunities but are simply too timid to take them We want cast iron, guaranteed opportunities which just do not happen at this level. We must learn to be prepared to fail. To put it another way, we are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Or alternatively again, JUST HIT THE $%^&*ING THING!!!!!!!!! Correct but this in part (or whole) is the fault of the manager! If he instilled more of a 'shoot on sight' policy then they damn well would. Of course there will be one or two exceptions - a Vrancic or Tetty rocket spring to mind. Thing is we have a pragmatic, possession based coach who believes games will invariably be decided on amount of possession. I remember Burnley away when he was completely bemused by how we lost the game ...'with so much possession', totally ignoring the fact we gave away cheap, sloppy goals! In Farke world, you play neat, tight, intricate passing football with eleven players 'comfortable' on the ball. It is basically five a side football on a full size pitch. This will NEVER change with Farke at the helm. It's hardwired into his DNA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Number9 243 Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, curious yellow said: The restart has left the club in a difficult position. To carry on without support and proper levels of fitness is alien to the professional game and are two factors which has put our club where it is. The drinks breaks and amount of substitutes are ridiculous and break up the flow of the game. They might just have well said finish the season with an under 16 five-a-side tournament. You could argue that it's the same for every Premier team, but it's not because we are so far behind everyone else. We have had to try to be bold but unfortunately it has backfired. The extra push in training has increased the injury problems, when other clubs' injury situation has improved. Yesterday we played a more attacking line up, the intent was there and we looked excellent in the first ten minutes. The fitness wasn't there to back up the intent, heads began to drop and we got progressively worse. No way would we have produced that performance under normal circumstances. This virus has dramatically changed our lives, we have lost our family, friends and jobs. When most of us had already accepted our fate, I can't see any fairness in making any judgement from a money-based charade We didn't look excellent in the first ten minutes, we looked like a team with at least three players who hadn't played in the League for months. Mismanagement Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
curious yellow 184 Posted June 22, 2020 On 20/06/2020 at 16:11, Number9 said: We didn't look excellent in the first ten minutes, we looked like a team with at least three players who hadn't played in the League for months. Mismanagement Perhaps because they hadn't played for months. Perhaps we should have played during the Lockdown? In the first ten minutes we had 4 corners, 1 dangerous free kick and 3 good chances, before Southampton had any shot at goal. It was 4 minutes before they got out of their own half. Cantwell had made 2 good defensive challenges on the edge of our penalty area, one of which started the excellent move - great dummy and pass by Pukki which brought the Drmic chance. If we play the rest of the season like the first ten minutes we've got a chance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
