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the key issue was the quality of the Rotherham keeper. He was excellent if we had swapped keepers with them we would have had 3 points
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the key issue was the quality of the Rotherham keeper. He was excellent if we had swapped keepers with them we would have had 3 points
I don't think you're the only person to have said that but I thought he had a decent game. It makes a positive difference having someone in that position and I'm not sure what he was supposed to have done wrong?
the key issue was the quality of the Rotherham keeper. He was excellent if we had swapped keepers with them we would have had 3 points
Harry missed a sitter and Jorge should have buried his free header; the 'keeper shouldn't have got near it. Small margins.
ONE goal scored, if we are doing capitals and want to be accurate about things.
Just to add a bit of balance before the usual suspects start whining pitifully, three of those four defeats have been to teams in the top six.
The next five games are all very winnable.
See, i said Notty's account had been hacked...he's got it back again nowAft
After you rather articulate ‘Big Gamble’ post, I’m glad to see that we are back to normal Notty.
I don't think you're the only person to have said that but I thought he had a decent game. It makes a positive difference having someone in that position and I'm not sure what he was supposed to have done wrong?
A definite improvement on the previous games, but, a very frustrating game. Again, we lose because of playing out from the back. It's starting to become like var, we moan about it every week. It's the first time the crowd have been hugely deflated by a goal. It's the same mistakes again and again. Teams know what's coming and how to play against us, just press against us and we'll deliver the ball to you on a plate. I think next season we'll see a very different looking back 5 that is more adapt at playing the way Appleton wants to play.
We had enough good chances to win it, but finishing wasn't good enough. There actually wasn't an awful lot between the teams, though I'm not sure if that's because Rotherham didn't need to go through the gears. Rotherham must be the biggest team in the league, very physical and won all the second balls. Other than the goal, I can't remember them carving us open.
We're actually good when we have the ball forward, we just don't have a successful method to get the ball in those positions. Passing out from the back has its clear issues and long ball provided limited success. The times we managed to get the ball out we looked good. In particular the phase of play leading to Anderson's opportunity was superb.
A couple of extra bug-bears:
-Too slow and predictable setting up from goal kicks and when vickers had the ball in hand
-Movement at throw ins
-providing support when countering
-lack of fitness (at least compared to Rotherham)
Hoping for a positive game on Tuesday and I feel confident we'll get a good result. Let's stop the rot of 4 defeats on the bounce, just for my piece of mind (I still have nightmares of our slide in to Non-League).
Onwards and upwards.
add to that, he has bolger and shackell as the two options to play out to, and a bobbly pitch. it is like watching a car crash in slow motion.I agree with the comment on Vickers, he isn’t good enough with his feet and too apprehensive. If he is planning to go short just do it early. Not hesitate, let the opposition set up and go short anyway.
I think will have a new keeper in mind for the summer.
question 74. (repeated). if none of the back line will be here next year, why are we practicing it with them now?Passing from the back (part 73)
The reason it doesn't work well right now is because there aren't currently players in those positions who can pass the ball well enough. I realise this is stupidly obvious but you either get everyone used to doing it and build from there, or you delay everything six months. It's frustrating in the meantime, though.
After last Saturday's debacle I was immediately able to console myself watching another team - admittedly in a different country and at a level higher (only one level, though) and the opposition know they're going to do the same thing so there's a high press whenever there's a goal kick.
Unless it's definitely not on they always pass it out and last week a succession of quick, dangerous attacks were built because of it. But you need defenders who can also pass the ball.
If the same back line is in place next season and this is still being tried, that's when I'll join the ranks of the hair tearers.