I still rate MT but if he’s still here in 12 months time saying the same things I’d be slightly worried he’s fell out of the same classroom as Daryl Clarke
Five hundred and thirty-nine minutes
Since Carlisle last scored at home
Their fans were frustrated
Mouths starting to foam
But in the 89th minute
From the usual set piece
Walsall contrive to concede
And slump to defeat
The Cumbrians celebrate
A first win in thirteen
The Saddlers again find
How to help another team
It’s a long way from Burslem
To Carlisle, you know
But what a let down
From that Lord Mayor’s show.
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The way we are at the moment really reminds me of the Dean Smith side the season after we’d lost Brandy, Grigg and Paterson. We still had a decent squad but teams figured out that if they sat behind the ball then we’d struggle to break them down. We’d always play 4231 and became very very predictable.
It was only in the following summer when Smith worked and rehearsed a genuine Plan B (three at the back) that we moved from a side that would have a brief flirtation with the playoffs to genuine promotion contenders.
To move us on to the next level, this is something Taylor needs to have up his sleeve. It doesn’t need to be Clarke level, but a different way of playing will massively help
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People seemed to be blaming Ward (and he should be tighter) but the keeper should 100 percent be coming for a looped ball into his six yard box from the edge of the box.
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Having just seen it the keeper is certainly partly culpable.
I’d say mostly. Absolute no brainer to come for that ball.
It’s just an experience thing I guess, to be expected with a young keeper. Ward could have been tighter. Doesn’t sound like we deserved anything anyway.
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When you see the goal in the last minute you realise just how poor we are at defending a looped cross towards the box. Every sinew in every player at 89 minutes should be wired to defend at all costs.
Ward is so so poor. With his supposed experience he should have been heading the ball out not thinking of his cocoa and slippers.
As we have seen with other games the opposition target him as an easy touch.
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We had this free kick in injury time in virtually the same spot and angle at the other end.
All the lads on the same wavelength to execute a well rehearsed set piece as well as they always do.
https://twitter.com/leereyn46555467/status/1464848320019509250?s=21
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You just wonder how much further we’d be up the table if we hadn’t conceded so many goals from set pieces. On the whole our defending is pretty good and we’re pretty solid through the middle of the team. Even though it was poor on the whole, we were always in the game due to the back four and the middle two being robust
The way our front four is set up needs a re think for me as we don’t get into dangerous areas enough and our key players are starved of possession. Kahn looked uncomfortable out on the left. I’d like to see him moved to the right with Wilkinson in the 10 position. He hasn’t got the pace to be out wide and can be a bit of a one trick pony cutting inside. On the left choose any of Shafe, Phillips, Kiernan or Osadebe with Miller obviously up top
Look like it is Wilkinson who was marking the scorer and let him run free.
On Wilkinson, does he think he is Ronaldo taking free kicks 30 yards from goal. He hit one which I swear took two bounces before it got to the keeper! We don’t follow crosses in so I’m not sure what the point of having a weak dig from 30 yards is going to achieve?
Its correct we need to defend better at times but our real problem is at the other end of the pitch. Playing one up front doesn’t help .We rarely score more than one. A rethink on our attacking strategy is urgently needed.
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Just saying the club do consider staying over. It’s just where to draw the line distance, travel time home bed or hotel bed it’s something that’s taken into account and I’m sure the players have differing opinions too
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How come you know so much about the inner workings of the club?
Whose told you they consider staying over?
All news to me.
It’s all about saving costs, and I doubt the players have any say in the matter.
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Jesus Christ.
There were a few more culpable than Rushorth before it got anywheer near him. Sloppy marking, space left and ball watching
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It was related to the Hartlepool game as stated in previous post which I was responding to.
Just happened to be at the ticket office when Leigh Pomlett Matt Taylor and players were getting ready to board the coach on the Friday
No real insight into the club just right place right time.
Just saying it is wrong to say the club don’t consider the matter when they obviously do
Personally on a normal Saturday I wouldn’t have seen a coach trip to Carlisle an issue. The weather issues may have changed that view but that said the weather caught out a number of individuals and organisation
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With Dan Scarr in this team we would likely be 6 points or more better off he was brilliant at dealing with set pieces.
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There is a lot you can say about how the team isn’t functioning which would all be valid and should have been improved on by this stage of the season.
The set piece situation alone is tragic and has been very damaging to us. I’m not sure how many points we have lost by conceding from set-pieces but it feels like a lot. If we had just defended a few of those situations better we would certainly be 3 or more points better off. Then consider how poor we are at our own set pieces we could be right up there touching the playoffs just based on that.
I think it was PT that mentioned above that Matt Taylor said “they are hard to practice” how so? A lot has been said about the size of our team this season, this should give an advantage. I’m not a footballing expert by any means but surely it is just about putting good balls into the right areas and players timing their runs, it should become second nature. Our players seem especially poor at the timing of runs part.
Same in regards to defending them, height gives you an advantage but if players are going to switch off and not do their jobs then it doesn’t matter how big you are.
There is a lot being said about bringing in new players and of course bringing in better players will always help, but there is a hell of a lot more than can be done to squeeze more out of what we have.
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Agree, and he got on the end of a few.
You’re spot on about the timing of the run. If you look at the delivery in isolation from both Earing and Kahn, it’s actually pretty decent. I’d go as far as saying that it’s the best we’ve had for a good few years consistency wise. It just goes to show that there’s more to it than just slinging the ball into an area.