04-09-2023, 16:05
I think I must be an unlucky omen. I missed the Boro game and everyone said we played well...
Caught the Huddersfield game and it was the same dross we've served up in every match I've watched so far..
No real pattern of play going forward. We had a couple of decent moves in the 90 minutes, but overall, we don't really play any attractive football. Considering we're playing with John Swift and 2 wingers, I'm unsure why we can't seem to find players in the hole and do any progressive forward passing. The bulk of our "football" is heart in mouth stuff in and around the edge of our own box.
The goal was good one, but came from a break. It's when we're in possession we seem to lack ideas.
Defensively, we look like we're going to concede every time the opposition come forward. And when Bartley went off, I have no idea how we survived Huddersfield's set plays because we don't have a single defender who can get off the ground and head the ball. As for the goalkeeper, 2 more conceded at his near post and doesn't get off his line every time a cross comes across his 6 yard box. It's all good making the odd worldy save like he did against Leeds, but he doesn't convince me at all with the basics.
I was a big vocal supporter of Corberan last year. Thought he came in, got back to basics and righted Bruce's wrongs of overcomplicating things.
This year, we seem to be quite similar to under Bruce. Obviously our start is better, points wise, but we look a bit all over the place really. I appreciate this is somewhat due to our (lack of) decent personnel.
However, now Grady is back, we have him, Sarmiento and Mowatt knocking on the door of the first team, along with Maja. If Corberan is the real deal and not a flash in the pan 1 season wonder, I expect he should get us playing better football in the coming weeks. We'll see what happens, but we have to be looking at replacing the "shoe ins" of Phillips and Wallace who are both quite traditional wingers and not really link up players that you'd expect when you play with a small forward like what we have.
The right back should help too, as we've been carrying Furlong for years.
Caught the Huddersfield game and it was the same dross we've served up in every match I've watched so far..
No real pattern of play going forward. We had a couple of decent moves in the 90 minutes, but overall, we don't really play any attractive football. Considering we're playing with John Swift and 2 wingers, I'm unsure why we can't seem to find players in the hole and do any progressive forward passing. The bulk of our "football" is heart in mouth stuff in and around the edge of our own box.
The goal was good one, but came from a break. It's when we're in possession we seem to lack ideas.
Defensively, we look like we're going to concede every time the opposition come forward. And when Bartley went off, I have no idea how we survived Huddersfield's set plays because we don't have a single defender who can get off the ground and head the ball. As for the goalkeeper, 2 more conceded at his near post and doesn't get off his line every time a cross comes across his 6 yard box. It's all good making the odd worldy save like he did against Leeds, but he doesn't convince me at all with the basics.
I was a big vocal supporter of Corberan last year. Thought he came in, got back to basics and righted Bruce's wrongs of overcomplicating things.
This year, we seem to be quite similar to under Bruce. Obviously our start is better, points wise, but we look a bit all over the place really. I appreciate this is somewhat due to our (lack of) decent personnel.
However, now Grady is back, we have him, Sarmiento and Mowatt knocking on the door of the first team, along with Maja. If Corberan is the real deal and not a flash in the pan 1 season wonder, I expect he should get us playing better football in the coming weeks. We'll see what happens, but we have to be looking at replacing the "shoe ins" of Phillips and Wallace who are both quite traditional wingers and not really link up players that you'd expect when you play with a small forward like what we have.
The right back should help too, as we've been carrying Furlong for years.