Forget 4-2-3-1 as it doesn’t work with the squad carefully assembled by JF and MT to play 4-2-3-1.
Switch to 4-4-2
Play Miller and Philips upfront.
Wilkinson and Kiernan wide and Kinsella and Earing in the middle. Press their centre backs and don’t give them any time to build from the back.
If we play 4-2-3-1 we’ll be lucky to get a point.
Clubs has sussed us out. Easy to play against. Mark our wingers and we revert to long balls for Miller to chase against 2 defenders.
I’m very much afraid it will be his usual 4-2-3-1, which we all know doesn’t work with the quality of players we are gifted with.
Taylor can be a bit stubborn in this regard…two up front? are you mad? we might start winning matches that will never do!
I genuinely think we have been so so patient after the last 4/5 years. Sure, there been the odd game when the players hve been booed off. But especially under Keates and Clarke, I don’t think there’s really been too much of a reaction from the supporters.
Given the promise of a better future, which we all bought into… I think we have been extremely patient. When we go 1-0 down in games at home, we do tend to stick with them.
I do, however, see that changing today if we go 2-0 down - and even Moreso Tuesday night if we lose today and are crap against Bradford.
But all in all, I think our fans have been superb. Today feels like a tipping point.
We aren’t a terrible side, not by a long way - we just have serious deficiencies in key positions, and are very easy to play against. If I was the other Matt Taylor, I would be planning on overloading our left flank and getting crossed in. It’s not rocket science really is it ?
I expect us to Shithouse a 1-0 win today however, and to lift some of the gloom. We need it, the club needs, it the players need it, and Taylor needs it.
This doesn’t change the fact, regardless of the result, however, that the club has a massive 7 days in front of it. I will be a lot happier with 2 wins in 2… but we will have the same hodge podge of results with this squad for the rest of the season without exciting and balancing recruitment.
I’m also taking my 4 year old with me today again… must be mad.
I’m not going but I hope we win, I hope we play well, I hope we score a hatful.
I hope you guys who do go get thoroughly entertained.
I hope there is no need to boo the players but feel free to boo the management and board for me please - they are reason I’m not attending today.
Stadium Suite looking lively enough - no signs of a mass stay away, and the general mood seems upbeat. May all change when everyone goes to their seats of course …