Negative Tactics

[Beach Hut]

Why do we have just one striker from the start ?

Very negative tactics in my view at times Cox appeared to be our target man.

 

[Ernest]

Probably decided by our state of the art modern coaching team

 

[Higham Seagull Army]

looks like Dickinson has contracted ( barn door syndrome ) , instead of going up to huddersfield with a meek 4-5-1 , why not stick murray and forster up front and go 4-4-2 and try and take the game to them ?

 

[blue and white army]

Why do we have just one striker from the start ?

Very negative tactics in my view at times Cox appeared to be our target man.

Agree with you completely we only need to adopt 4-5-1 formation when playing away to the top teams in the league, not conservative formations against mediocre teams at home.

 

[Beach Hut]

looks like Dickinson has contracted ( barn door syndrome ) , instead of going up to huddersfield with a meek 4-5-1 , why not stick murray and forster up front and go 4-4-2 and try and take the game to them ?

Precisely, one forward shows no intent to win when there are two on the bench

 

[Silent Bob]

I can see what Slade was trying to do, and actually I think it can be quite an attacking formation with two wingers and a man in the hole. Didn't work though, partly due to poor midfield performances and also Dickinson's complete inability to win or hold the ball.

 

[Djmiles]

Agreed. Forster should have been on from the start. The ONLY striker who has looked like scoring in the first few games.

 

[BensGrandad]

4 - 5 - 1 works for teams like Arsenal who had in midfield Eboue Fabregas and Arshavin who can get forward to support the lone striker or Liverpool or United with their abundance of skilful midfield players but not with what we have at our disposal.

 

[Mackenzie]

Dickinson is best as a lone striker, it's his position, so it could be argued that RS is playing to our strikers strength. This system hasn't worked, we're yet to score in three games, partly due to Dickinsons poor form, and also our midfields lack of understanding of the system (or ability to play it).

I'd suggest that until Dickinson has regained some form, we'd be better off with Murray and Forster or Davies and Forster.

Or I could be talking shit, which is also not unknown.

 

[Silent Bob]

Dickinson is best as a lone striker, it's his position

On what basis?

 

[dougdeep]

Playing away against a good team, I think trying a lone striker wasn't a bad call.

 

[Mackenzie]

On what basis?

This was the position that he played for Stockport County the season before last in which he scored 21 goals in 32 games and prompted a £750,000 transfer to Derby.

 

[The Wizard]

I Thought the tactics worked decently today, not brilliant by any means but they weren't bad, may I just add the defence were solid as a rock today, especially Virgo.

 

[GT49er]

Dickinson is best as a lone striker.

You mean he is even worse in other positions? How much did we pay for him?

 

[Horses Arse]

You mean he is even worse in other positions? How much did we pay for him?

f*** sake - I don't know what's wrong with people on this site. Dickinson is a quality striker. why all the negative make believe stuff. He had a good game today, won loads of headers, kept the ball very well, always managed to find a brightpn player and made a right bloody nuisance of himself. Very impressed.

 

[Beach Hut]

f*** sake - I don't know what's wrong with people on this site. Dickinson is a quality striker. why all the negative make believe stuff. He had a good game today, won loads of headers, kept the ball very well, always managed to find a brightpn player and made a right bloody nuisance of himself. Very impressed.

Shame he had no strike partner

 

[Stumpy Tim]

1 goal conceded in 2 games suggests that in the only area where we have players who know each other we're doing well. In a few games our attacking players will know each other and we'll start scoring goals. Obviously we would prefer to have more points at this stage, but I'm 100% confident that after 10 games we'll be well up the table

 

[king Wombat]

this tactic has worked rather well for a number of teams hasn't it. its 451 - turning into 433 on attack. 433 is not a negative tactic.

give the team a chance.

 

[dougdeep]

You mean he is even worse in other positions? How much did we pay for him?

Undisclosed.

 

[trueblue]

this tactic has worked rather well for a number of teams hasn't it. its 451 - turning into 433 on attack. 433 is not a negative tactic.

give the team a chance.

Spot on. Couldn't go yesterday but I took it as a good result until I saw all the moaning on here.

Brentford were top of League Two for something like the last 17 games of last season, and got off to an absolute flier last week. It wouldn't surprise me if they get another promotion, or at least a play-off place.

Personally, if Russell Slade thinks we need to play 8-1-1 to get the right result, I couldn't give a flying f**k as long as his judgement's right.