Our defence gang up and sit deep but Cov like the baggies played 5 a side through us , I think teams have sussed how slow with the ball are our 3 centre backs and how slowly they move in close passing areas hence their own and baggies edge of box shots
This gets on my tits. More teams will work out that as soon as we’re put under pressure the bottle goes & we panic.
Worst part of having a season pass/membership. You're stuck with the prats around you every game! Could at least go and sit with different prats if paying game by game!
I don't know why we try to play out from the back so often, as we seem to have far more success with a long ball to our strikers. I'm not suggesting we just hoof it but we never seem to have any success with playing out, it usually ends up played back to Ingram to clear or lost through bad passing.
I suspect the reasoning is that by playing out from the back, it draws the opposition forwards, creating more openings up front.
'never have any success'? 11 points from. 6 with one defeat. Reading this thread today seems like we're propping up the table. They'll learn as they gel when to play out and draw the opposition on and when to go direct. It's early days with 11 injuries - most in midfield so I don't really think we can use the last few games as an indication of what to expect when we're all fit and firing.
There came a man from Columbia that you’ll know He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to City fans he was someone that we’d cheer. He could lead the line just like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of striker City fans would desire Os car Estup inan Lover of the ball between Two defenders, then he’d be gone Os car Estup inan City’s greatest goal machine And we all know that he’ll carry on Fairly straight forward to remember…
You've gotta dangle the carrot for it to work. Yeah will get caught out from time to time but it will create more space on the counter and hopefully lead to more goals in our favour.
Thats where Seri comes in... when he's played, the ball has come to him outside the box and then we go forward... it didn't work once with him though..
On paper I'd say our best team would be: Baxter Christie Fig Greaves Fleming Seri Tufan Sayyadmanesh Pelkas Sinik Oscar On current form it's very hard to drop Slater, Tetteh, Ingram, Jones etc... Baxter/Ingram Christie Fig/Jones Greaves Fleming Seri Salter Sayyadmanesh Tufan Pelkas Oscar
it certainly is, but if someone's after using the rasputin tune, there will have to be a three syllable bit afterwards. perhaps "knocks 'em in" after a couple of os-cars. and maybe "city's greatest goal machine."
scoring will inevitably dry up if oscar continued in this vein, he'd have more than 45 and our shot to goal ratio is 27% by far the highest in the league once that drops to more average numbers, suddenly points are looking hard to come by
