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id love him to stick to a 4-4-3 – as i think it gives a major advantage over other teams. :dry: :ohmy:

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I’m curious George why you could understand Jones playing centre back but not Watson. They are both centre midfield players but Jones is probably more attack minded. I thought it made sense having Watson at the back as he had next to no defending to do and his main task was to take the ball off Ali and start the moves going – which I thought he did alright.[/quote]

No idea really – just a gut feeling. No rational explanation why I felt that way. Maybe just that Jones is a bigger “harder” player who looks like a defender. Watson is a (don’t laugh) creative midfielder type (I said, don’t laugh). I certainly don’t see Watson as a centre back.

But just my opinion. I coul dbe wrong. Usually am.

What was the crowd any how have just geet in :dry:[/quote]

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As I said above, I agree.

I think Kone could have turned the game last night, even alongside Boselli. Maybe Roberto kept Boselli on not to destroy his confidence, but at what cost to the team?

Noteworthy that our striker didn’t take a penalty.

I’ve deliberately waited till this morning to post my thoughts about last night. Others don’t, that’s their perogative, but when it’s particularly bad a few deep breaths and a good night’s sleep are needed.

Yes, of course, that performance was abysmal. They looked like a team who have never played together. Hang on – they haven’t. That’s what’s wrong with this Under-23 development stuff. You no longer have a reserve team as such. What Roberto I think got wrong, and I am a big fan of his but he does get things wrong, is in making wholesale changes so that there was no core who could play together. However, he did have a strong bench – but mistake 2 was in not using it to its full advantage.

Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea etc field second string players, but then bring on the big guns when things aren’t going right. We had Maloney, Beausejour and Kone on the bench who had they been brought on together could have changed the pattern of the game.

Individually I agree with JR that Jones had a good game. He made more mistakes than I would have liked for a star performance, but he controlled the middle well. Stam started off well, but lacked the will to chase and pressurise their defence. They did string 6 across the back most of the time, so we needed that adventure to get behind them.

Boselli’s finishing was woeful. I’m sure he knows it. If he had taken one or two chances earlier we could have got a hatful. He didn’t and we didn’t.

Gomez and Watson haven’t learnt. It was deja vue back to when they had first team places a year or so ago. Sideways, back, slow, stop. No real footballing brains, I’m afraid. And Watson is never ever a centre back. If he’d played Jones there I’d have understood the logic better.

Fyvie was anonymous, Redmond OK if a little chunky. Not ready for PL. I hope for better from McManaman.

To be fair to Roberto (and I’m really not trying to “take the positives” – there are few if any) when I went to one of his discussion meetings he said that what he looked for was possession and creating openings and chances. He could do nothing about finishing. That’s down to the strikers.

We created the chances. To that extent his tactics and team selection were OK. We had a team out that could have, and should have, beaten Bradford probably comfortably. We didn’t. Maybe as I’ve said above he should have brought Kone on, but he presumably had his reasons. Maybe that it only needed one chance to go in and all would be forgiven. Personally I’d have brought Kone in to play alongside Boselli, but unlike most on here I am no expert (after all I’ve only been watching live football since 1969) so what do I know.

Someone talked of “contempt”. I think we showed contempt to Bradford, and as is not uncommon with such games underestimated them. We still however created enough chances to win the game.

I will say little of the penalties except to say that Gomez didn’t look interested in his run up or the way he took it.

I went loads of times later on, Yosser. I used to have a Kop season ticket.

But the thing was my Dad never took me when I was a lad. And that’s what I missed. I had to wait till I was old enough to go on my own.

“In recent years rugby league’s popularity in Wales has been on the increase. Matches between teams in the Welsh Premier division generally draw crowds of around 300 spectators.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league_in_Wales

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