Why is Palmer holding onto the ball? Against a team that drops back quickly when we are in possession he needs to be releasing that ball to the wings quickly to catch them out.
I don't get all the changes, how the feck are we gonna gel when you make loads of changes each week?? Sorry but that's poor management imo
Flavourless in attack. With the exception of Clarke and Nunez, they all seem to be waiting around for someone else to do something. Give this team ten minutes in the second half, but if we haven’t scored get Egeli, Szmodics, and Hirst on for McAteer, Akpom, and Azon.
Lots of changes but think we look okay on the ball with Bristol sitting deep soaking up play. We're far too easy to break against especially when Davis is up the pitch and we dont have a Luongo to cover and Greaves and O'Shea might be quicker than previous CBs but slower in the head. That goal would not have happened with Burgess in the team. We certainly haven't solved how easy it is to break through us either through the midfield or down the flanks. Also ref absolutely bottled a red card at the end of the half. Absolute joke of a decision
Clarke okay in parts but again always guilty of running into trouble has space in front of him to exploit but decides instead to run into as many players as possible
I can see that the majority of our signings (except the CBs) have more quality on the ball than our promotion winning team but McAteer is the exception, on the ball looks like a league 1 player, what I do like about him though is he seems positionally very good and works hard
Agreed. The saving grace for him that half is that he at least wanted to get on the ball and would go forwards to make things happen. For players like Akpom, McAteer, and Azon that first half just sailed by them. I guess if you were an opposition fan, the first couple of months is the ideal time to play us with more change and upheaval. I can see signs that it’ll click and we’ll start racking up points - but lapses of concentration in defence and our conservative attacking build up is hampering us away from home so far.
Yes but McKenna hasn't helped by making 6 changes. Very much reminds me of us in League 1 before we signed Luongo, Broadhead and Hirst. Played against low block teams not creating alot, McKenna constantly chopping and changing. When we we're at our best under McKenna he pretty much kept the same team making 1 or 2 changes a match to freshen things up, not wholesale changes
