If his principles only involve 'playing out from the back' then yes, granted, he did stick to his principles! I think his principles go a bit further than just that. First half was a **** show.
Of course, but we are absolutely down to bare bones in terms of attacking outlets. Delap had an off game, who else is there beyond that at present. That’s the board and Rosenior’s fault for how they built the squad IMO but we’ll solve the issues and I think we’ll see a lot less first half performances like that after January just how we can keep putting points on the board.
He had 20 minutes of natural attacking pace and width in Vinagre's legs. He made best use of it. Plan A involves wingers. Plan B was what we started with. Plan C was to change shape at half time. Plan D was the 3 subs. And the ace in the hole was Macca on to push Greaves left and stick vinagre on the wing.
Honestly mate I think the problem we had was out wide in a 4231. He changed shape to effectively a front 2 at the start of the game. Just think it was a bit much disruption to the usual shape, in essence he gave himself too many problems by overthinking it. He himself said he got the press wrong in the humberside interview. But ultimately we adapted and made a purse out of a pigs ear. Ground one out and that's a very good trait tie be seeing. From boalth coach and squad.
Five points for first choice, three for second, one for third. Allsop 114 Jones 76 Slater 40 Morton 21 Greaves 11 Delap 6 Vinagre 6 Connolly 4 Tufan 1 Jones and Slater, both back after long layoffs, collected a lot of votes, but the zero to hero was Allsop. Double saves, triple saves and stood up tall when some hapless winger tried to lob him. Well done Ryan.
It was, John. I was facetiously referencing the pundit on Sky who when announcing Alfie as Man of The Match, referred to him returning after a long layoff. If you didn't have that commentary it would have seemed like I was spouting rubbish! No change there then.
