This one up front system is boring, Taylor dosnt have the correct players to play it and most worryingly he seems incapable of changing it.
Miller to be frank has been awful in the last few games. When the ball goes up to him, it just bounces off him and he loses it.
I always felt that Scarr was fine if it was just dropped onto his head but struggled when he had to compete with someone with a bloke of his size. I also felt he was poor in the opposition box too, he’d get on the end of a lot but his timing was terrible.
Can’t knock him though as he’s not doing too badly since he left us
Looking at the goal from that angle, the immediate question that comes to mind is WTF is Osadebe doing?
Rushworth had come out for almost everything up to that point as well.
I’d like to see some more attacking intent rather than this sanitised, slow build up play.
I can’t recall the last time we got behind a full back and got crosses and generally turned the oppositions defence around.
People talk about ‘identity’ - But to be honest I think we just want to see our team have a bit more of a go at the opposition, rather than a totally isolated centre forward playing his back to goal and having to run the channels with little support.
We seem to bring every player back to defend a set piece yet still defend them badly.
Would like to see us leave one player on the halfway line, this would occupy more opposition players, less in our box, an outlet if when we clear it. Too many players trying to defend & appear to not know their roles.
Totally agree. Miller should be left up field to chase any clearances, let’s face it that’s what he spends most of the games doing anyway. Having all players back can be counter productive. You just need everyone knowing and doing their job.
We are way too negative. There’s a paradox in that we are negative, yet I think our better players are the attack minded ones.
We need to be more confident on the ball, more progressive with the way we play, and push up about 15 yards. We should be tearing teams apart with some of our forward players but we are so boring it’s untrue.
Just when i think i am ready to spend the best part of £50 to come to a match to be entertained by free flowing attacking football, we put in a performance like yesterday, and it sets me back.
I have never not gone to a game in any one season,((apart from covid) this could be the first
The football we are playing now, is no different to how we played under Clarke.
It’s the same, bar a few games. I don’t see this new vision, and new positive way of playing at all.
It’s just crap.
Absolutely 100% Rushworth should have come out screaming Keepers!! and collected that ball I usually stick up for keepers where possible the old goal keepers union and all that but he’ll be disappointed looking back that he hasn’t come for that.I was always told when I was being trained that your the only one in that situation that can use your hands to catch the ball and make it safe which sounds the obvious but it really is the case so he should have come out one knee up in the air gathered it and took everything out with it let me tell you this when you scream keepers!!! with a hanging ball you watch how many players stop and freeze and that includes the opposition more often than not.
I’m going to the Colchester game mate that’s my next visit hopefully it’ll be better than Harrogate at home was.
I said exactly this about corners after the Rochdale game…our big players are all lined up centrally between the penalty spot and the six yard box. You can’t attack a ball from there and you lose all the advantage you have over the defenders. We need the big men to be a good,long 5 or 6 paces further out and meeting the delivery as they run in.
The clubs entire mindset is not to lose, but also not to win.
It’s all a tactic to keep the fans quiet whilst they continue to bleed the club.
We just don’t look capable of getting on the end of our own set pieces and seem incapable of defending our own box, you can just see it coming whether it’s seeing a game out for a draw or a close 1 - 0 or 2 - 1, but our own set pieces ain’t bad at times, but nobody seems to be bothered to get on the end of them and never look like scoring from them, whereas the opposition always seem to get a head on their’s
That’s because we don’t sign players with the mentality to do so, attacking the ball is a skill On it’s own.
I was talking to someone at bescot last night, and he said that the players where standing on the car park waiting for the coach, which was late, while freezing their knackers off.
Is that really how we treat professional football players? or is it more dog and duck esq?
If the Rico, Adebayo money etc is not been used for these sorts of things , then where has it gone?
We didn’t look like getting on the end of anything yesterday that ball from the left hand side on the highlights was delicious and should have been buried with an incoming player tapping home
Just got back from Carlisle , my summary .
Crap game
Great night out , enough said .
In fairness a 4 hour coach journey is not an excuse for not being able to pass a football.
Looking back at the goal, a total lack of taking responsibility. Ward didn’t want it, , Phillips, Wilkinson, and Labadie just standing still watching the ball as its in the air. Rushworth came and stopped so got caught halfway, I’m not sure he would have got there anyway mind. Osadebe puts in a poor challenge but at least he’s attempted to go for the ball.
The more you watch it the worse it gets.
Coach set pieces all you want but there is no desire to defend that properly from several players. Weather its tiredness, laziness or what, you decide.