Allsop may be decent with his feet, but his positional sense is absolutely shocking. Almost weekly you see him get caught out, fortunately ( like the Millwall one ) they don't all result in goals.
Not sure why Swansea's press should have been a problem for us considering the very first part of our game plan is to invite the press. The aim is to play around it... And we do usually do that. Problem being is we don't advance with the ball as a result - it usually ends up back where it started; Jones. And then we slowly work it up the field after a few back and forths. Now and again we see a long ball, but the problem yesterday was the long balls were usually very poor. The few times it was successful there was minimal support for the receiving player.
Game was a bit of a let down. Swansea had City sussed out and bossed the game so all credit to them. We huffed and puffed but did ot create much. Everytime we go the ball on the wings they seemed to have 12 players on the pitch that managed to stifle Philogene and crew. We are missing Seri his calm presence and his ability to magically get out of tight spots and set something up, which will do wonders (we hope) when he returns to the team. And like others I am puzzled with what we are going to do with all our so called number 10's. Carvallo seems to be in danger of becoming Twine 2.0 and as of yet has contributed little (other than his well taken goal). Omur was not on the park very long but, as others have said showed lots of promise; he should start on Tuesday. But, on occasion I have said the same of Vaughan and before that Covil-we are always looking for the next big thing always to have our hopes in the end fall into the bin of unfulfilled promised saviours. Lets hope Abdush avoids that fate.
Chang the back 4. We need defenders who are comfortable on the ball, are prepared to take a risk to pass through the lines and play the ball more quickly. Change the midfield for players who are prepared to find space to receive the aforementioned passes. Change the attackers for those who are prepared to take a shot and can move into space to score. Or work harder and be prepared to fight for the right to play football.
Now I realise that it’s the modern way but **** me, I am absolutely sick of watching Greaves to Allsop to Jones to Greaves to Jones to Greaves to Jones to Allsop to ****ing no one. Rosie is coaching the talent out of this team with this boring version of so called modern football. He’ll be ruining Giles next.
Absolutely not just dont want him to end up in the same bucket of saviours. In saying that not suggesting that others including you had Vaughan and Covil as one of of our saviours but I have a penchant for hoping for the next big star no matter who the newcomer is.
Back to Swansea, when was the last time we went away and dominated a team like the Swans did to us, Birmingham yes it was easy but new manager, Middlesborough was ok, any more cos I can’t think of one. I switched off from Rosey after the Donny game, we got arse raped by Grant McCann, it was pathetic, and yet everyone says trust the ****ing process, yeah ok. We have an extremely talented group of players, and the negative twat in charge is holding us back, Acun will see it and sack him, hopefully after we get beat by Rotherham.
I haven’t posted any thoughts after the game until now, as (like probably a lot of others) I’ve been trying to get my head around what isn’t working, despite the addition of several ‘better’ quality players. Unfortunately, I’m beginning to feel, as one or two others have suggested, that Rosie’s fixation with the system could bring about his downfall, eventually. It seems pretty obvious that teams come to play us at home and set up to nullify our preferred way of playing, whilst using it against us to get a win themselves. Even Millwall after the first 20 minutes of being outplayed and overrun, tweaked their setup and largely stopped us playing. Luckily, we’d already scored by then and they didn’t manage to create much but they still might have got a draw late on. Anyway, my thoughts are that if Rosie is going to be successful, he’s going to have to start thinking more about what we need to do from a tactical point of view against each different opponent, rather than thinking that our system is just going to win us the games irrespective of who the opposition are and what they might do to get a result against us.
A "long bow" is what you do when meeting a king or queen. Robin and his merry men didn't have a gap between "long" and "bow" during skirmishes, unlike the vacuus gap between some ears down under.
https://www.suebutler.com.au/usage/2019/12/28/draw-a-long-bow http://www.word-detective.com/2013/05/draw-a-long-bow/ Vacuus indeed. Interesting that the first link is to an Aussie website though so maybe there is something in it being a bit more common in Aus.
Think that would be a 'deep bow'. Even in English parlance. 'drawing a long bow' makes sense as an analogy and is quite creative actually... Leave a pot of yoghurt on a desert island long enough and it's sure to develop a culture of its own... Apologies for the dad-joke and casual stereotyping Syd. In advance.
It's funny that people can be in such a rush to denigrate me (and yes eventually I can't resist engaging even when it will only be once in a blue moon [hopefully that's an expression over there ]) but don't do their research first.
No worries. We all know you savage bastards hunt and eat cute koalas for breakfast anyway... Bush tucka ain't it? Bit tastier than witchetty grubs.
