Walter Out

It’s not just centre halves, it’s the whole team and approach. Wingers not tracking back, defenders standing miles apart, defenders not being in a line or a bank of 4, not moving together as a unit, centre halves ending up up front, midfielders not dropping back to plug gaps, midfielders not chasing back when we’re being broken against. There is just no defensive organisation whatsoever.

What we are being served is what I imagine we’d get if a fan got to be manager.

 

His first season at Hamburg was very similar to this apparently. They conceded the most goals from counter-attacks if I remember correctly. They did finish 3rd but they were a big fish in a small pond. He did actually sacrifice some of the ‘heart attack’ football in his second season to have a more solid defence and they conceded fewer goals and were harder to break down.

 

Our middle players Slater. Mehlem , Zambrano etc seemed to be a yard slow to get to a player or a second too slow to move . I also need Slater to learn to cushion a ball and not try to run before he’s got it in control .

 

Robbins doing a cracking job at Cov - not

 

Interesting timing but as it's an International Break our podcast is looking back on the 2010s, and we're up to the start of the 2018/19 season under Adkins, where we started atrociously, but stuck with him and if not for the ownership brilliance of bringing in the mighty Liam Ridgewell as the sum total (just about) of our January reinforcements, we may have actually made it. I still use that Aston Villa 2-2 as my go-to game of just how close we've come to the play offs.

Just thought it might prove to be an interesting discussion in the context of Walter.

 

Could also look at the fact that we didn't stick with Rosenior despite progress up the table as he wouldn't play attacking football and he's now only lost 1 in 6 at strasbourg averaging 2 goals a game.

And in the one game they did lose they scored 3.

 

It’s almost like a Godwin’s law now isn’t it

so ****ing tedious