There seems a complete lack of moving the ****ing ball forwards. Nobody runs on to a pass because everyone is showing for the ball towards our goal. If Frey had hair, he would have ripped it out by now.
You seem to have missed my point, Bob. No one was showing for the ball at all, they just didn't want the responsibility of having to carry the ball out of defence or to break upfield for a long ball. A complete lack of confidence. Again though, who should we blame for the fact that we don't move the ball forwards quickly enough? Do people think that Cifuentes encourages them to do it and they refuse? It's nuts.
I don't think anyone has said that strolls. They did show for the ball, it's just in the wrong parts of the pitch.
I'm going to merge this thread into the matchday one as there's two discussions going on about the same stuff on two threads.
That's because of the set up, we are not allowed to break quickly, and don't get me started on the management of our full backs
Bugger! It seems like only a week or two were in 8th spot after beating Sheffield United but know, we’re in the relegation zone. It would seem the boys have lost confidence and a win is needed for a number of reasons.
Beggars can’t be choosers. We went into the last internationals on a high after a promising start bar the first game. Since then it’s gone from bad to worse than I thought this group of players capable of. It’s a great time for another break before what looks a horrible run after Portsmouth now we’ve totally burned through the supposedly nice run between the breaks. For now I have faith in the manager and I think he deserves plenty of time to sort it.
Frey did. I know he’s not for everyone but with precious little service I thought he at least can say he gave it all he could. He’s extremely limited but that’s not his fault. Dembele tried to be positive at least and had a reasonably good first half. …. Nardi? Still did some odd things and one comically Sunday League free kick into touch but made at least one decent save. After that I’m struggling with the starters. Thought Smyth, Celar and Chair all looked up for it but it’s easy to have a go at 2-0. That midfield trio of Field, Madsen and Andersen was laughable.
Totally agree, we clearly are set up as a high octane, Inverted full backs , quick between the lines , high pressing team. Unfortunately this has got lost on most of our team, and instead there's zero pressure, no quick passing between the lines, and two Scandinavians who are used to playing a chilled out casual game can't cope. How sad that our biggest lost at the moment is Colback, the only midfielder we seem to have to smash into players and take us forward. I cannot stand inverted full backs, it means we will never ever get behind the oppo defence, fantastic when we have Celar and Frey both on together, waiting for some top crosses to get on the end of!
Yes it feels counter-productive. Paal is just about capable of playing left-back, rarely attacking nor defending excellently but doing a passable impression at both. He’s not got some great range of passing we’re unleashing having him drift into midfield. Poor old Saito is probably a lovely lad and offers old women a seat on the bus but he doesn’t look like he knows where he is right now in no small part thanks to the dross on his right.
