Last Night
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:17 pm
Credit to Ross he proved me wrong by showing he does have the minerals to drop Wright, which I do beleive was the right decision.
I wanted to discuss amongst fellow fans what I beleive I saw last night. I liked the possession football we played, we controlled the tempo (I’ll come back to this point) we moved it around quite well and I read that we had something like 70% possession in the first half. Could well be true and if it was correct that’s impressive. So to me there was a big improvement in keeping the ball, keeping it on the floor and moving it from right to left and vice a versa. However, the tempo was way to slow for what we were trying to do. If we are to play that style then we need to move the ball quicker, it needs to ping in quickly to the players and by that quick movement will allow us to stretch the play, create space and then allow us to play through the gaps we create. By moving the ball in the slow manner we did allowed them to get back behind he ball and nullify what we were trying to do. If we had moved with pace we could have been five up with that sort of possession stat.
A lot of negative things have been said about our play recently and I’ll say that I’ve said that myself however, I’m starting to see a pattern to our play and an identity, whilst it’s still early days you can see the progression Ross the boss is trying to formulate. He still needs to work on it and speed of movement of the ball and the players should be the next thing he works on. Playing a better team than last night would be an issue if we are that slow against such a team as they will be able to nullify us even easier than what we saw last night.
So for me it’s a step in the right direction and I hope to see further work on the shape, the pattern of play and tactics in the coming games.
I wanted to discuss amongst fellow fans what I beleive I saw last night. I liked the possession football we played, we controlled the tempo (I’ll come back to this point) we moved it around quite well and I read that we had something like 70% possession in the first half. Could well be true and if it was correct that’s impressive. So to me there was a big improvement in keeping the ball, keeping it on the floor and moving it from right to left and vice a versa. However, the tempo was way to slow for what we were trying to do. If we are to play that style then we need to move the ball quicker, it needs to ping in quickly to the players and by that quick movement will allow us to stretch the play, create space and then allow us to play through the gaps we create. By moving the ball in the slow manner we did allowed them to get back behind he ball and nullify what we were trying to do. If we had moved with pace we could have been five up with that sort of possession stat.
A lot of negative things have been said about our play recently and I’ll say that I’ve said that myself however, I’m starting to see a pattern to our play and an identity, whilst it’s still early days you can see the progression Ross the boss is trying to formulate. He still needs to work on it and speed of movement of the ball and the players should be the next thing he works on. Playing a better team than last night would be an issue if we are that slow against such a team as they will be able to nullify us even easier than what we saw last night.
So for me it’s a step in the right direction and I hope to see further work on the shape, the pattern of play and tactics in the coming games.
