Except it's almost word for word what he said in the press conference before the Hull game: "I'm not stupid. I'm not blind. I know we can't smash it long to Cam because that's just not what suits him. We need to find players either in between or outside that can thread it and are capable of picking up and playing forward and looking forward because his movement's good."
I don't think we're playing his preferred system yet. We certainly aren't playing the formation he's said he wants to play (the formation that the players we've signed would suit). My view is that Still likes to give his players a lot of freedom to make decisions and it seems fairly clear he currently has a problem in that our squad struggles to do that, partly because the players who've been here more than a few weeks have all had their play heavily micromanaged in recent times - Still has also spoken about stopping training, asking a player where the space is and getting the response "Am I allowed to pass there?" I think in the short term he needs to give the players more detailed instructions on what he wants them to do and then give them more freedom to make decisions as time passes and (hopefully) their confidence and familiarity with each other builds up.
He may find that a challenge because I suspect he's also used to the opposition attacking his teams and likely needs to adapt to managing a team that are seen as a relatively big fish, with lots of teams primarily looking to sit back and defend against us.
