I feel for Maloney but he doesn’t help himself with this belt n braces football based solely on having more possession therefore more pointless passing.
Players sh*t scared at going at the opposition (bar Jones) they prefer to play every pass safe house just so they don’t give it away.
Are forwards are literally starved to death then suddenly they’ll be asked to take on 2-3 defenders. I lost count the times Rankine and Adeeko got the ball one man to beat and decided to pass.
At some point you have to commit,take a man on,a quick one/two going forward. This build up play retaining possession stinks to the high hills and it certainly doesn’t suit us we need to be far braver on the ball.
At the end of last season Maloney basically said, I’ve took the reigns off just go for it and it was like a whole new team. Going forward at pace, quick one twos players in the box it was champagne football but were back down the snake again.
Yes Maloney didn’t get his targets I’m sure of that but he needs to let the players go into games being brave and creative, take chances rather than acting like a timid dog with it’s tail between it’s legs by keeping hold of the ball for as long as we can.
Saturday against Charlton not one shot on goal with 58% possession and we never got caught offside that’s because we never got it through to Hugill or Stones.
Is it Maloney or the players ?, we could change Maloney but we can’t change all 28 players. Too much Martinez has rubbed off on him far too much
