20-10-2020, 11:27
When you can only get a pint (I spotted the typo and left it because i thought how apt it was) against a team who have not got even 1 point on the board, at home and cannot break them down it is a little worrying.
I think the most concerning thing for me at present is how ordinary Pereria and Diangana look at this level, I think that is where many of us were pinning our hopes. I can only see two explanations, 1.) that the Championship like the Prem has players not of the quality to be playing in it, so those two looked exceptional against them or 2.) my hope and favourite is that both of them have had their permission to 'just go and play' removed. We are not seeing the fast crisp pass and movement we saw for much of last season, we appear at the moment to be playing a type of Pullis ball, 'why put three passes going forward together when you can go 1 forward, 3 sideways and 7 backwards?' I lost count of the number of times we had the ball approaching their box and the move ended with a clearance from Johnston. On the positives I think this squad is so much better than the one Big Dave had and has a lot of potential, but I still think we have a lot of players who you have to say, just go play and lets face it we signed them for exactly that, to just go play. If we wanted players who were as good defending as they are in attack we brought in the wrong players. It is an offensive team and has to be used that way or I don't know about pride of the Midlands, we will soon be laughing stock of the Midlands
We have to stop being so afraid of teams and do what we do, then if we lose, we lose but at least we lose playing our way and not this mommy I'm scared way of playing football.
I think the most concerning thing for me at present is how ordinary Pereria and Diangana look at this level, I think that is where many of us were pinning our hopes. I can only see two explanations, 1.) that the Championship like the Prem has players not of the quality to be playing in it, so those two looked exceptional against them or 2.) my hope and favourite is that both of them have had their permission to 'just go and play' removed. We are not seeing the fast crisp pass and movement we saw for much of last season, we appear at the moment to be playing a type of Pullis ball, 'why put three passes going forward together when you can go 1 forward, 3 sideways and 7 backwards?' I lost count of the number of times we had the ball approaching their box and the move ended with a clearance from Johnston. On the positives I think this squad is so much better than the one Big Dave had and has a lot of potential, but I still think we have a lot of players who you have to say, just go play and lets face it we signed them for exactly that, to just go play. If we wanted players who were as good defending as they are in attack we brought in the wrong players. It is an offensive team and has to be used that way or I don't know about pride of the Midlands, we will soon be laughing stock of the Midlands
We have to stop being so afraid of teams and do what we do, then if we lose, we lose but at least we lose playing our way and not this mommy I'm scared way of playing football.