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+----- Thread: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football (/showthread.php?tid=4771)
RE: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football - WakeyTerrier - 30-11-2016
I'M a bit late to the after match party but here are my thoughts.
As soon as I heard the team news I said to my pals "I'm worried" Why was I worried? Well once again the manager decides to change the back central defensive partnership and it's almost like he's been in the old stock room at Town and pulled out the LC Bingo selection machine. Early on in the season the defence looked solid and now it looks anything but. He has to decide to give 2 players a chance of playing together in a run of games for them to instill confidence within each other.
We didn't play that bad on Monday night but we just make silly errors at the defensive end of the pitch and silly passes at the other end. Obviously things weren't helped by Hudson departing very early on and it's still beyond me why DW didn't bring Scannell off a lot,lot earlier. When WA scored the opener we were effectively playing with 10 men, we played the ball out and looked to use Scanz and then had to change tactic as it had suddenly struck his team mates that he was struggling to walk.
Second goal conceded, a comedy of errors. I may be wrong as I haven't watched it back once but from memory. Wells plays a stupid ball when a much simpler and easier pass was on and losses possesion Löwe does well to get some sort of tackle in on the forward but unlucky for us the WA eats a lucky rebound which he latches onto because he's alert and at least 7/8 yards inside his own half, mean while the other 2 Town players that are back defending are stood like statues, they may well have been 7/8 in the Wigan half as well but they were nowhere near covering a) the man b) the ball which meant a clear run at goal. Ward then decides to come, then he hesitates, then he finally comes but it's all too late...bang 1-2.
I don't mind this passing about the back, teams have sussed us and so it means we have to try and draw them out, but massive mistakes aren't going to help us and neither is the lack of movement. 1st half Kachunga makes a run out wide and takes the defenders with him, massive gap in the middle but where is the attacking midfielder(Kasey in this instance)...nowhere. He should be running into that position. If nothing else you are dragging players away from position and creating space elsewhere.
Not off to Blackburn at £27, parking right at the top of the hill and one tiny pub. I'll stay at home and save me brass.
RE: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football - WakeyTerrier - 30-11-2016
18 games gone and getting closer to that halfway mark that Herr Wagner says you can look at the table (only 5games to that point).
But I've just had a look at our first 18 and split it down the middle, first nine and last nine games.
First 9 games
P9 W6 D1 L2 F11 A8 Pts19 +3GD (Championship form)
Last 9 games
P9 W3 D1 L5 F9 A16 Pts10 -7GD (Battling relegation,but should survive form)
More interesting those first 9 games we had a unchanged starting back 4 of Smith,Hudson,Schindler and Löwe
From games 10 to 18 we have changed the defence on every occasion except game 13(PNE) where he stuck by the 4 from the previous game(the 4 named above). Can it be said that suspensions and squad rotation has upset the applecart a bit too much and that is why we are suffering?
RE: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football - theo_luddite - 30-11-2016
It could, but it would help if we could score more than 1 or 2 goals a game too. We struggled last season and this against teams that park the bus and try to hit us on the break (Wendies, Brum, Wiggin and to some extent those stars of League 1, Shrewsbury). Fulham, Cardiff and Preston showed we struggle with balls into the box from either set plays or the odd hoof. Losing to two of the bottom 3 in successive games doesn't exactly help to melt the morning frost and warm your cockles now does it? We do OK against teams that try to play a bit (well so far).
RE: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football - theo_luddite - 30-11-2016
Meanwhile - the last visit of the original Sticky Vicky was remembered today in Wolvo when she came back to see the man on the oss, her old fella Prince Albert.
RE: Town v Wiggin Athletic - Monday Night Football - Lord Snooty - 01-12-2016
Scanz is out til January. Huddy out for two or three games.
Scanz shudda come off straight away. Crazy! It was obvious he was badly injured. Reminded me of the time Tom Clarke played on and was out for over a year. Where's he now?
