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45 mins effing wasted at home with his stubborn insistence with lone striker. Grigg nil service and he deserved better.Dack free kick could have seen them out of sight.For Christ sake how many 1st halves do we have to waste? How many 2 goal behind fight backs ? No tempo,over passing yet swaps it round 2nd half and we were a million times better.Stop playing away formations at home.Great credit to the players for a fantastic come back but our formations put them constantly in a position of chasing the game.Start with 2 strikers at home and leave it at that.
If both sides had taken their chances in that supposedly wasted first 45 minutes we’d have been 3-1 up.
They were 2 up remember !! Screw possession ,counts for nothing .Got out of jail .Irrespective of half chances in 1st half we allowed them to look easily the better team.
45 mins effing wasted at home with his stubborn insistence with lone striker. Grigg nil service and he deserved better.Dack free kick could have seen them out of sight.For Christ sake how many 1st halves do we have to waste? How many 2 goal behind fight backs ? No tempo,over passing yet swaps it round 2nd half and we were a million times better.Stop playing away formations at home.Great credit to the players for a fantastic come back but our formations put them constantly in a position of chasing the game.Start with 2 strikers at home and leave it at that.I’m sorry Dereke but we could and should have been 3-1 up in the first half. They had the goal and the free kick that was it no other efforts, we had a the Kellett header miss from half a yard, the Pearce effort 2 yards out hit straight at the goalie, the Jacobs strike that the goalie saved with his finger nails and numerous crosses across the box that didn’t quite fall for us. I thought Grigg again played the lone striker superbly and created several opportunities for the roaming jacobs and Kellett.
Nothing wrong with that system he played in the first half and much of the second, the only difference late on was we put the chances away and rode our luck for the Power goal and maybe the Jacobs knock back for Grigg , it was unbelievable if he didn’t take a ride on the defenders back.
One post, one moan FFS! :huh:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Poor 1st half.Should have ,would have !!! Fact is 1 up front leaves Grigg constantly running himself ragged with zero reward. We need to let the opposition worry about us.”The only difference is we rode our luck “..seriously ? and not the substitutions gave more support for Grigg and a faster tempo.Nothing like the 1st half at all.
Poor 1st half.Should have ,would have !!! Fact is 1 up front leaves Grigg constantly running himself ragged with zero reward. We need to let the opposition worry about us.”The only difference is we rode our luck “..seriously ? and not the substitutions gave more support for Grigg and a faster tempo.Nothing like the 1st half at all.So Power’s goal was due to us having 2 up front??
It was always going to be gung ho for the last 10 mins with 5- 6 up front. The formation in the first or second half had fek all to do with that result in my opinion and nobody will convince me otherwise.
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!It won’t Dereck. We have seen El Caldwelletez win and draw games like this before but he always reverts back to the slow build up type of boring game we witnessed for fifty five minutes today.
Just seen the stats, 8 attempts at goal in the first half from Wigan, then we had the 2 or 3 crosses that we just failed to get on the end of. I think that gave us a good scoring opportunity every 4-5 mins.
So playing one up front is negative, don’t think so, not when you have the best forward in this division being the lone striker. Another master class from Will and a goal to make it even sweeter. :cheer:PS 12 attempts by Wigan in the 90 mins, so let me see…….that’s 4 in the second half. You need to give your heads a big fekin wobble some of you. :lol:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!For me the problem is that we seem to play 5 at the back 3 c halves and 2 w backs, which is fine but you don’t need a player like Perkins sitting in front of them as cover.
From what I can see and I said near the beginning of the season we need a quality midfielder to run that position and take the ball forward, someone who can split the defence and give Grigg the service as he seems to get into good positions going forward with no reward.
Looking at last night when we attacked we were trapping the ball then passing slowing the play instead of one touch to speed the tempo up.
Last little moan is that Perkins and Power who I said early doors are not good enough, they are both too negative with slowing the play and passing back or sideways causing us to loose momentum.
Get a quality midfielder and Wildchut and we will be fine. Don’t know why McCann can’t play in the middle instead of Power, he is so much better defending and taking the ball forward.
Great result last night.Yes that first half or first fifty five minutes was superb indeed. Akin to watching porridge set. Boring at best and as bad as watching John Becks football at Knobbers and Cambridge. Would we have won without the changes? Nobody really knows but it certainly was a lot better to watch than before the changes. Again well done Gary for seeing this and hence putting Gillingham on the back foot.
Full credit to Jordi Hiwula when he came on. Worked hard, great movement, tracked back and changed the game. Same as Fleetwood. Alongside McCann baffling why some players start as subs given the inept performances of some that start. If we can get the right formation and Yanic firing no reason why we can’t push into the automatic places.
Agreed, the first half was the result of little support for Grigg. One man up top can be played but not how we play it. Yes we had chances but they didn’t come out of 2nd gear, they did exactly what I expected of them, pressing, quick tempo, supported attacks. We did the opposite.
I’ve now come to the conclusion that Caldwell starts like this as it gives him a Plan B. Plan B offers a greater attacking threat, it gives impact. If Plan B was Plan A what would he do if it wasn’t working, like Blackpool at home?
We papered over lots of cracks last night, no matter what the blue tinted tell you but would you settle for this every week and put up with Plan A for a bit? A lot would say yes. Chesterfield, Fleetwood, Bury……..in a masochistic sort of way it’s brilliant! :woohoo:
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