Interesting From Forster

[theonesmith]

I think the biggest problem Slade has is that he wants us to play a certain style of football but the players he has are better than that. If you are capable of winning the ball,holding it, passing it or running at and past people I imagine that is what you want to do - in other words play to your strengths and to the best of your ability. If however you are discouraged from doing that in order play a certain way then maybe you wouldn't be behind those ideas.

But he wants us to play quick passing football. It's just for some reason quite inconsistent and doesn't always work.

Confidence is obviously a huge issue- as players don't feel the crowd is behind them always and have little confidence on the ball.

So- we start the season playing passing football and it doesn't always work. Due to the lack of confidence, the passing football worsens leaving Slade having to change how we play and make us tighter so that we don't concede and attempt to win 1-0. If we can win a couple of matches 1-0 confidence starts to return allowing players to spend a bit more time on the ball and thus we have passing football!

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

But he wants us to play quick passing football. It's just for some reason quite inconsistent and doesn't always work.

Confidence is obviously a huge issue- as players don't feel the crowd is behind them always and have little confidence on the ball.

So- we start the season playing passing football and it doesn't always work. Due to the lack of confidence, the passing football worsens leaving Slade having to change how we play and make us tighter so that we don't concede and attempt to win 1-0. If we can win a couple of matches 1-0 confidence starts to return allowing players to spend a bit more time on the ball and thus we have passing football!

Can't agree with that. He might have said he want's us to play quick passing football but he also said we will be the fittest team in the division. When we are in possession of the ball not one player is running off the player with the ball - they are all standing watching - that indicates to me that that is not a team being encouraged to pass and move. There is no pattern to our play and we are static all over the pitch. Something is fundamently wrong - it looks like either Slade can't get his ideas over or the players can't/won't carry those ideas out