Give Moyes some credit...Always had giants in defence...New gaffer continuing a workable trend...Good at back defending corners, lethal at corners swung in by excellent dead ball suppliers.
I'm certainly not against short corners , it's just the fact we look like it's the first time we've ever tried it every time we do it
We were promised it but its also worth noting that Millwall did basically everything to make the game an absolute dire watch as well. I bet the game had the least amount of time with the ball in play over the championship. Long balls, long throws and set pieces and slowing down and breaking up the game whenever we had a sniff at a break. Then they set back and let us have the ball compacting the middle forcing us out wide. I'm not going to say its great right now because saturday was crap. However, we've seen arguably the biggest overhaul this club has done in recent times and we are thankfully still picking up points. We may have to take our medicine for the time being until things click.
That's exactly how they played it - its what they've done for years, its horribly effective and they'll use it to beat better teams than we are. I'm just glad they didn't score, they would have defended to the death.
Must admit I was concerned that we would concede from a long throw or corner towards the end. Am glad I don't have to watch their **** every week.
MYTH Not any more entertaining, not really more attacking. Just a slight variation on the tactics majority of teams now play. A third of the season gone and 3 places of mid point in the table
Some of our fans got it really wrong with Rosenior. A narrative was built that his football was defensive, safety first stuff, that passing out from the back showed a lack of ambition. Walter was supposed to be the antithesis of that. His teams scored more goals and created more chances than anyone, supposedly. He would improve our home form and address the lack of goals because he had the ambition and positivity that Rosenior didn't. As it turns out, it actually looks very similar. We've turned over a load of players and existing players have had to learn new things which are specific to Walter's game which has set us back a bit, but the principles of playing out from the back are the same, and it's certainly the same that when it goes wrong it is frustrating to watch, and to many fans looks as though we aren't trying to attack. Walter was hyped to be the solution to a problem that never really existed. He is another modern manager with a particular style which requires patience. We've essentially got what we had before, except he's a less likeable version and he's 2 years further back in the process than Rosenior was by the time he left. It is what it is. I think sacking him would represent more chaos, and I don't believe his tactics are the problem. I think he understands the game very well and has a plan he knows can work. But it entirely comes down to whether the players like him and can understand him and get on board with him. I doubt any of us know the answer to that.
All teams play the fannying about at the back game, just watch the highlights programs not a week goes by without 2 or 3 getting it wrong and conceding a goal.
Yep. It's the modern game and there are good reasons for it. Problem for us is we never seem to see the rewards of it that other sides do, even though we've been big on playing this way for a good while now. We don't know why and it frustrates us.
