05-09-2021, 17:28
Bromley may not have gone off to a good start, but they carry a lot of threats. Cheek got 20 goals last season didn't he and Louis Dennis just came back from the EFL after scoring well at this level ...... and Whiteley used to get double figures from midfield when he was at Boreham Wood. They have a decent keeper and a defence that did well last season too. I thought we might play a limited game, try to stop them scoring and hope to snatch one, as if we were the away team ......... but that was just fantasy.
Teams have always indulged in what is now fashionably called game management, but you can take it to extremes. The trouble with it is that it can be very hard to get going if the other team equalises anyway ...... and it is impossible if they do it with only seconds remaining. And if you manage the game by falling back on defence and getting men behind the ball, you are encouraging the opposition forward aren't you? Equally if you break from defence and ONLY head for the corner flag you are telling them you aren't even trying to score. They are safe to throw more men forward aren't they? Certainly the corner flag can be a useful tactic when not over-used, but the safest way to manage a game is to put the ball in the opposition's net. Okay it might end up with their keeper and he can hoof it downfield if he makes a save, but a defender can do the same if he robs you by the corner flag.
I'm sure Rowe is right to have his team managing the game when they are in the lead, but they have to do it intelligently - and one thing that makes that difficult is the huge amounts of injury time etc in games these days. You think oh five minutes left, let's take a bit of care and manage the remaining minutes and suddenly you find the ref is adding 8 minutes - so when you are winding down to the last few minutes there's really a seventh of a normal game left to play!
Stockport and Boreham Wood managed only 3 efforts on target between them.
MOM for King's Lynn with 9 out of 10 again was Joe Rowley. Seems I'm not the only one with some humble pie in the fridge Dancing.
Teams have always indulged in what is now fashionably called game management, but you can take it to extremes. The trouble with it is that it can be very hard to get going if the other team equalises anyway ...... and it is impossible if they do it with only seconds remaining. And if you manage the game by falling back on defence and getting men behind the ball, you are encouraging the opposition forward aren't you? Equally if you break from defence and ONLY head for the corner flag you are telling them you aren't even trying to score. They are safe to throw more men forward aren't they? Certainly the corner flag can be a useful tactic when not over-used, but the safest way to manage a game is to put the ball in the opposition's net. Okay it might end up with their keeper and he can hoof it downfield if he makes a save, but a defender can do the same if he robs you by the corner flag.
I'm sure Rowe is right to have his team managing the game when they are in the lead, but they have to do it intelligently - and one thing that makes that difficult is the huge amounts of injury time etc in games these days. You think oh five minutes left, let's take a bit of care and manage the remaining minutes and suddenly you find the ref is adding 8 minutes - so when you are winding down to the last few minutes there's really a seventh of a normal game left to play!
Stockport and Boreham Wood managed only 3 efforts on target between them.
MOM for King's Lynn with 9 out of 10 again was Joe Rowley. Seems I'm not the only one with some humble pie in the fridge Dancing.