Skaville
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Did you even watch AdaWeb and DalStep today?
You forgot Matt Ryan, Pascal Gross and Glenn Murray
Did you even watch AdaWeb and DalStep today?
We probably have more fair weather fans than any other team in the Premier League. Incredible, well done
I've been a Hughton fan this whole time. Even through the dismal awful 2nd half of last season. That's not fair weather fan at all!
Still team Potter here. We have had just the one piss poor performance, that is not enough to turn on him surely?
On the tactical side of things what GP has to look at is what we do when sides are smart against us. This has happened a couple of times and it does cause us problems. When we are at the start of a phase of possession, with say Dunk or Webster on the ball, our idea is to attract opposition players and find the spaces in between. What SU did really well today is they crowded the areas we wanted to play in, every time Dunk had the ball, Stephens would have two or even three men close enough to close him down quickly, making him not a good option for the pass. Then someone else would close Dunk forcing him to make another decision, which more often than not didn't come off and resulted in us eventually turning over possession. Time and time again, those spaces we wanted to play in were either blocked off or occupied by opposition players. This is where GP needs to think about working harder on our plan B in those situations, or finding a way to counter what the opposition are doing to stifle our game. So far doing this has worked to cause us problems.
But there was another side to our problems today, maybe it was related to the fact that we couldn't play our game, and we didn't have much of an effective plan B, but our heads were not in the game and we were either nervous or not as up for it as SU were. Could have just been one of those days, but the players have to take some responsibility for that.
We do very well when teams don't play smart against us, but when they do we have a problem, we need to work on more options because without our usual out balls today we looked lost and bereft of ideas.
Sorry, I didn’t realise that I’d singled you out. It’s an historical observation, actually. I remember the moans and groans that used to come from the West Stand, at the Goldstone, every time a pass went astray. Some things don’t change even after how far we’ve come and the performances we put in on Monday, and against Wolves and Arsenal.
I was more bothered by his lack of subs at selhurst on Monday where I thought his inactivity may have cost us 2 points.
This time, the players let him down & he let them know by making early changes. Unfortunately grew didn't have enough subs as he could have removed another 3 (who were lucky to be given 90 mins).
The 1st half against Leicester was not dissimilar
On the tactical side of things what GP has to look at is what we do when sides are smart against us. This has happened a couple of times and it does cause us problems. When we are at the start of a phase of possession, with say Dunk or Webster on the ball, our idea is to attract opposition players and find the spaces in between. What SU did really well today is they crowded the areas we wanted to play in, every time Dunk had the ball, Stephens would have two or even three men close enough to close him down quickly, making him not a good option for the pass. Then someone else would close Dunk forcing him to make another decision, which more often than not didn't come off and resulted in us eventually turning over possession. Time and time again, those spaces we wanted to play in were either blocked off or occupied by opposition players. This is where GP needs to think about working harder on our plan B in those situations, or finding a way to counter what the opposition are doing to stifle our game. So far doing this has worked to cause us problems.
But there was another side to our problems today, maybe it was related to the fact that we couldn't play our game, and we didn't have much of an effective plan B, but our heads were not in the game and we were either nervous or not as up for it as SU were. Could have just been one of those days, but the players have to take some responsibility for that.
We do very well when teams don't play smart against us, but when they do we have a problem, we need to work on more options because without our usual out balls today we looked lost and bereft of ideas.
On the tactical side of things what GP has to look at is what we do when sides are smart against us. This has happened a couple of times and it does cause us problems. When we are at the start of a phase of possession, with say Dunk or Webster on the ball, our idea is to attract opposition players and find the spaces in between. What SU did really well today is they crowded the areas we wanted to play in, every time Dunk had the ball, Stephens would have two or even three men close enough to close him down quickly, making him not a good option for the pass. Then someone else would close Dunk forcing him to make another decision, which more often than not didn't come off and resulted in us eventually turning over possession. Time and time again, those spaces we wanted to play in were either blocked off or occupied by opposition players. This is where GP needs to think about working harder on our plan B in those situations, or finding a way to counter what the opposition are doing to stifle our game. So far doing this has worked to cause us problems.
But there was another side to our problems today, maybe it was related to the fact that we couldn't play our game, and we didn't have much of an effective plan B, but our heads were not in the game and we were either nervous or not as up for it as SU were. Could have just been one of those days, but the players have to take some responsibility for that.
We do very well when teams don't play smart against us, but when they do we have a problem, we need to work on more options because without our usual out balls today we looked lost and bereft of ideas.
Sorry Chris-it was practically the whole season not just the second half.I've been a Hughton fan this whole time. Even through the dismal awful 2nd half of last season. That's not fair weather fan at all!
Not sure why Stephens is getting so much stick? He was poor today but there was 5/6 players worse than him. Oh yer hes the scapegoat most weeks isnt he.