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Correct Mr Griff, don’t think even you could argue against Martinez doing leaky defences?
Did you hear his answer though? Someting about passing and passages of play – I think – Totally lost me!
I do get behind the team but I just can’t see Rob keeping us up whereas someone else might. Heres an idea which may get some bites.
Wait for Wolves or Bolton to panic first and then go for Coyle or Big Mick
Not many out there
Hughes and O’Neil wouldn’t come
Dave Jones, Curbishly, Billy Davies are they better?
How about another ex tic flying in the championship – Nigel Adkins?
Have I missed something with Salmon. Is he not the guy that came on last year and turned numerous games for us. All that seems forgotten
Duke, your loyalty and support is admirable and there is nothing wrong with supporting through thick and thin, heres the big BUT ..
When something is so obviously wrong you have got to change it and you just can’t keep nodding and clapping all the time.
Remember the Simpsones episode when Homer keeps getting electrocuted by a cupcake. It feels like that at times!
4-4-2 is never going to happen the big issue for me is the amount of times our wingers get round the back and when they look in the box they have one man to aim for. Thats why we never score, Fulham got round the back of us twice, two pull backs and the rest is history.
Whatever was he thinking when he had 1 sub left, looked at the bench saw Maloney and Salmon and then thought I’ll take that right back off whose getting forward really well linking up with the winger and put on another one instead.
I reckon it was late 70s. I must have been one of the original members as well.
I never came out the mascot draw either, all my mates who used to come with me but never actually went to the games all came out though, they still remind me of the fact today.
Remember they used to have a raffle for the old mini transister radios – never won that either.
They had a competition bit like that red or black thats just been on tv – Anyone remember it?
Ok Griff I will simplify my answer for you.
1) You said
if that’s true, how come almost every other team plays the same way yet manages to score? (I’ll help you out, it’s because they have better players than us)
I said you answered it for me – That means I agree they have better players than us. However I then explained the “overpassing bit” – Now not every team plays that way do they?
Also since when did I need a UEFA license to have an opinion?
2) You said
It might work, and I have said many times before that I’d at least like to see it given a chance,
Again I agreed however the proof you ask for is difficult to find with no chance of anything but 4-5-1 ?
Griff
1. You have answered it for me. I am not actually totally anti the 4-5-1 formation or 4-3-3 depending on who you ask. My issue is how we use it. We spend all the time just tip tapping it around (slowly) and when we do get forward, the aforementioned 5 don’t. Thats the problem.
2. Again you’ve answered it for me. Playing another formation may not work but why not try it. Even when Rob makes subs, he generally just changes the personnel rather than formation.
So my answer is not necessarily to change the formation its to stop “Over” passing it, lets get it forward quicker, more men in the box when we do and who knows.
