21-12-2022, 14:07
A Hudlin would be A way to score. Unfortunately the Hudlin can't actually play football too well, and lacks both balance and strength despite the appearance of being useful in the garden if you grow Sweet Peas. The truth is he wouldn't get a game at Chesterfield and struggled for a place anywhere but the bench at Solihull. Though I think there are loads of players from non-league to Division One who could step up to the Championship I can't see him doing it. You need either another bit of pace alongside Simpson or a football brain.
Theo is so right about managers. They all seem to have a plan to stop goals, but few of them talk much about how actually to score them. They'll talk 'ollocks about playing the right way and playing out from the back, but it as if getting it in the onion bag at the other end happens wholly by accident. Take Wolves they've had some really good talent, much of it attacking talent, couldn't score, because they had no consistent plan for how to go about it. Instead with a better attack than defence on paper, on grass they stopped conceding as readily as they stopped scoring.
You win at football when you score more goals than you concede. So conceding 0 seems like perfect safety. But achieving that isn't easy anyway, and if you carry no threat up front teams will simply be all over you until the ball ends up in your net. Having an attack is a vital defence .........
And every Huddersfield fan has grasped that, as has every Chesterfield fan. Only the desperate pressure of management seems to delete that basic knowledge.
Theo is so right about managers. They all seem to have a plan to stop goals, but few of them talk much about how actually to score them. They'll talk 'ollocks about playing the right way and playing out from the back, but it as if getting it in the onion bag at the other end happens wholly by accident. Take Wolves they've had some really good talent, much of it attacking talent, couldn't score, because they had no consistent plan for how to go about it. Instead with a better attack than defence on paper, on grass they stopped conceding as readily as they stopped scoring.
You win at football when you score more goals than you concede. So conceding 0 seems like perfect safety. But achieving that isn't easy anyway, and if you carry no threat up front teams will simply be all over you until the ball ends up in your net. Having an attack is a vital defence .........
And every Huddersfield fan has grasped that, as has every Chesterfield fan. Only the desperate pressure of management seems to delete that basic knowledge.