Post by missinglinc on Oct 23, 2024 17:36:45 GMT 1
Having witnessed half of the games played, apart from controlling the first game against a poor Carlisle side, the games I have seen have not been inspiring and now we have gradually resorted back to hoof ball like we did under the previous managers.
People can castigate their own ‘favourites’ for not being good enough, but we have some decent players, but are not playing the type of football/formation to enable them to achieve their best.
That aside, as a coach/manager, even if you feel the players are not the players you want, (although my understanding was that Bonner said he had a say in the incoming players), then you concentrate on the basic things like fitness and application. I wonder what we actually do on the training ground
We are awful at set pieces
We cannot put decent crosses into the box
Out players cannot seems to lose defenders or get blind side at corners
We are pedestrian at breaking forward
Our passing is poor, neither crisp nor slick
And … We don’t press teams ! - that is a key element in the is league and one you don’t need footballing skills for
The fondness for hoof ball and Hutton’s ineffective long throws is baffling, but more baffling is the fact when it is obvious it is not working, we just carry on the same. It was embarrassing against Accrington, pumping the ball to Nevitt surrounded by usually 3 much taller defenders and their big bald headed defender picked off Huttons throw every time, sometimes from being 10 yards away from where it was launched to.
Talk of buying strikers in January is missing the point. Any decent striker at this level needs a style of play that suits them. That’s why some hit it off under some managers and some don’t.
Let’s face it, Oliver was a pretty mediocre forward, but the play suited him in his prolific season
We can blame injuries, belief that the players are right, but this is where the manager should be earning his salt, and like the previous two, that is not apparent
Oh, how I yearn for a bit of good football on the floor
People can castigate their own ‘favourites’ for not being good enough, but we have some decent players, but are not playing the type of football/formation to enable them to achieve their best.
That aside, as a coach/manager, even if you feel the players are not the players you want, (although my understanding was that Bonner said he had a say in the incoming players), then you concentrate on the basic things like fitness and application. I wonder what we actually do on the training ground
We are awful at set pieces
We cannot put decent crosses into the box
Out players cannot seems to lose defenders or get blind side at corners
We are pedestrian at breaking forward
Our passing is poor, neither crisp nor slick
And … We don’t press teams ! - that is a key element in the is league and one you don’t need footballing skills for
The fondness for hoof ball and Hutton’s ineffective long throws is baffling, but more baffling is the fact when it is obvious it is not working, we just carry on the same. It was embarrassing against Accrington, pumping the ball to Nevitt surrounded by usually 3 much taller defenders and their big bald headed defender picked off Huttons throw every time, sometimes from being 10 yards away from where it was launched to.
Talk of buying strikers in January is missing the point. Any decent striker at this level needs a style of play that suits them. That’s why some hit it off under some managers and some don’t.
Let’s face it, Oliver was a pretty mediocre forward, but the play suited him in his prolific season
We can blame injuries, belief that the players are right, but this is where the manager should be earning his salt, and like the previous two, that is not apparent
Oh, how I yearn for a bit of good football on the floor
