stag324 wrote:Some very good points and I agree with most of them
My observation is that we now seem to set up to counter the opposition rather than set up to attack the opposition.
Last night should have been about taking the game to Sutton but we allowed them to dictate everything.
Hopefully the County game should be a big enough incentive to NC and the players to get our season back on track
Stephen wrote:Its been slow for some time and thats why Oates used to make such a difference, and Swan when he gets 5 minutes here and there. Still the best side ive ever seen is the 01/02 Dearden/Watkiss team, that will take some beating for me, Lawrence and Corden on the wings ripping teams a new one, a quality striker like Greenacre, those were the days
Bradders wrote:I don't understand all the gloomy post mortems. Whatever your opinion on the tactics, Sutton were going to be no pushovers, and the match came down to one very silly defensive mistake.
At the other end, the tactics succeeded in getting the ball in the net once, then putting a goal on a plate for our main striker. The rest of the time we had almost all of the possession, mostly high up the pitch.
Unless you're saying that Clough's instructions included asking the players to deliberately miss obvious chances, the tactics worked. What went wrong were a few individual failings.
Had Brunt and Swan done their jobs properly for a few seconds more, there would be no discussion about failed tactics. Which means that it wasn't the tactics at fault.
pemill wrote:Bradders wrote:I don't understand all the gloomy post mortems. Whatever your opinion on the tactics, Sutton were going to be no pushovers, and the match came down to one very silly defensive mistake.
At the other end, the tactics succeeded in getting the ball in the net once, then putting a goal on a plate for our main striker. The rest of the time we had almost all of the possession, mostly high up the pitch.
Unless you're saying that Clough's instructions included asking the players to deliberately miss obvious chances, the tactics worked. What went wrong were a few individual failings.
Had Brunt and Swan done their jobs properly for a few seconds more, there would be no discussion about failed tactics. Which means that it wasn't the tactics at fault.
In general I agree, I didn't think we played that badly, we were attacking and in the main dominated the game. In the end it came down to one school boy error.
With respect to Swan he doesn't get enough game time, strikers especially need to get their 'eye in', it's a big ask for someone to play a few minutes here and there and bury the first chance they get - at least he was there to have the chance to score. Had Swan been afforded the game time others get, Akins for instance, he'd be fully in scoring mode. Swan makes good runs which are rarely spotted by anyone else in the team but he has pace and presses agressively.
Stephen wrote:Is everybody including Clough going to pretend that for the 2nd home game in a row Akins missed a free header from the centre of the goal from 3 yards out. Its literally on the match highlights, all talk about Swan missing his header, but Akins avoids any kind of mention for the worst miss of the decade? Yes swan should have scored, any of us could have scored Akins miss that nobody mentions its amazing how hes untouchable
Stoney wrote:I posted about this in another thread. I disagree with you Martin.
The reason why it has just hit him is because of how poor his anticipation was so he just stood there and when it came through the crowd he wasn't expecting it. A proper striker would be gambling on it coming through the crowd and it's an easy head in from a few yards. His stance was all wrong, if he stayed on his toes and was ready he's heading that in all day long.
I like Akins but it was poor from him in one of his worst games for a good while.
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