The best British player, John Charles, was as good at centre half and centre forward. He also, despite being a 6’2 giant never got booked or sent off. Paul Madeley was so versatile for Leeds you could have had a sweepstake on what position he would play in the next game.
Losing Seri, Tufan and Morton, in one go exacebates this, though others like Philogene were also frustratingly greedy with the final ball.
In reply to that PLT post quoted above ^ The final ball under Rosenior was never an easy one. It’s not like it was ever a simple square ball behind the defence that just needed to be directed with enough power, there was always defenders in the way. We just didn’t counter attack at all.
Bottom line is that we were advised that the appointment of Tim would see us play a brand of football that was exciting, and lack of that being the reason for Rosies departure. Not seen any of that yet whatsoever. In fairness to Tim he started out with a non existent squad but I'm not confident he's the guy to turn it around once all the new signings settle in. What I'm seeing is something not that dissimilar to Shota ball. Hope Tim proves me wrong. Also take all those goals out of last seasons team, and surely a proven striker should have been a new signing priority, yet it's not happened. Acun, Tan and Co have made some good signings, and a higher number on permanent contracts so credit for that.
We often got into good crossing positions. Rosenior didn't seem to want us crossing too much and when we did it was always fruitless. Walter seems to want more crosses to go in and to make it more a part of the game plan but they still so rarely find a city man.
I think it's easy to say that now when they're new and exciting, but will we be saying that a year or two from now? We thought the summer 2022 business was good at the time.
No it isn't. Don't be silly. Despite seeing videos of how Walter set up at Hamburg and some of those friendlies, are you really saying that you believe Walter's footballing philosophy is near enough the same as Rosenior's? Under Walter are you repeatedly seeing us getting the ball into a great attacking area only for it to be passed back to our keeper 2 or 3 passes later? Do you really think we're seeing Walter's style of football atm? Walterball is nothing like Rosieball. We've gone through, in fact still going through (as not all his new players have even been available yet), an absolutely massive transition. Have a bit of patience, give it a few weeks.
I have never seen such a sloppy defence, with a complete lack of shape and the players being in such random positions on the pitch with huge gaps between them. That should never happen at a professional level. It was as chaotic and disorganised as a Sunday morning pub team where everyone’s hung overs. I don’t see how a few weeks is going to make any difference to that. He’s had those players since the moment he arrived and the previous manager had already made a tight unit out of them. Doesn’t matter what we do in midfield or the other end of the pitch if we’re always wide open and leaking stupidly cheap goals.
I'm saying Walter came out after the game and said he was very happy with the way we played and the way we played involved 400 passes amongst our back 5. End of story. And yes I am seeing us pass all the way back to defence from attacking positions, we did it from every ****ing corner until they scored.
Another example. Dave Watson He played centre-forward for Sunderland, was crap, reverted to a centre-back and became a soild defender and one of their most favourite players of all time. He went on to play successfully for Man City and even went aboard to Germany for a short period, came back and played for Southampton, before going to N. America Won 65 caps for England and was even captain on several occasions... And remains to be England's most capped player never to play in the World Cup finals.
I'm all for attacking football but some of our play has been the footballing equivalent of tying a rising sun bandana around our heads, jumping into a plane, shouting banzai and piloting it straight onto the deck of a ship. All seems like a good idea until the ship doesn't sink then where are you? In our case running desperately back towards our own goal watching the least appropriate player on the pitch trying to defend 75% of it on his own. Just be more sensible and cautious at corners and we'll be fine.
Especially when This kamikaze stuff has seen us score an almighty 2 goals (one a penalty, one a wonder goal from coyle) 23rd out of 24th for goals scored Oscar still has 50% of our goals So its not even benefitting us?
Aha, must be another who played in a different red shirt who had either a Welsh sounding name, or had the initials KK ?
