8 hours ago
If you saw my previous post from earlier in the day, I predicted Johnston would be dropped. How dare he keep going forward and taking risks?
It's all too predictable. Keep chopping and changing wingers while we continue to tread water in the middle of the park...
To call a square a square, Mason did at least change things today. Operating 3 at the back was something that I thought could suit us. However, my reasoning was that we could use that formation to accomondate a number 10 and two strikers, like Darren Moore did when we had Harvey Barnes, Dwight Gayle and Jay Rodriguez in the same team. My logic was that with an extra man at the back, you wouldn't need 2 central midfielders who don't cross the halfway line.
Mason on the other hand just added an additional defender in the mix without changing anything in forward areas. We still had Diakite and Mowatt together. Effectively, leaving us 1 player short when going forward.
And shock horror, we failed to score, yet again.
There were a couple of positives. I thought Beilik looked good on his debut. Illing Junior was a real threat again, after a few quiet games.
Using Illing-Junior at wing back enables Mason to fit Johnston, Grant and another striker in the same team if he just drops Price in for Diakite. It's clear we need one of our central midfielders to go forward, but Mason just doesn't seem to see it.
Unless things change quick, it does feel like we could be in for a relegation battle as we keep losing games that we should draw. We should've drew at Ipswich, gave them a goal. Tonight, ditto.
And when we lose games like this, not only are we dropping a point, we're giving absolutely mediocre Charlton side 2 extra points.
My impression of Ryan Mason so far is that he's overly cautious coach who plays boring football. The subs tonight with Gilchrist and Mepham coming on appeared to be designed to enable us to "hang on". No disrespect to Charlton, but they're not Man City. Why does our manager not feel that we could make some positive changes and nick the points.
I've said before under previous regimes that negative football is acceptable if it's delivering results. However, when you're dull and losing every week, it's not good enough.
It's all too predictable. Keep chopping and changing wingers while we continue to tread water in the middle of the park...
To call a square a square, Mason did at least change things today. Operating 3 at the back was something that I thought could suit us. However, my reasoning was that we could use that formation to accomondate a number 10 and two strikers, like Darren Moore did when we had Harvey Barnes, Dwight Gayle and Jay Rodriguez in the same team. My logic was that with an extra man at the back, you wouldn't need 2 central midfielders who don't cross the halfway line.
Mason on the other hand just added an additional defender in the mix without changing anything in forward areas. We still had Diakite and Mowatt together. Effectively, leaving us 1 player short when going forward.
And shock horror, we failed to score, yet again.
There were a couple of positives. I thought Beilik looked good on his debut. Illing Junior was a real threat again, after a few quiet games.
Using Illing-Junior at wing back enables Mason to fit Johnston, Grant and another striker in the same team if he just drops Price in for Diakite. It's clear we need one of our central midfielders to go forward, but Mason just doesn't seem to see it.
Unless things change quick, it does feel like we could be in for a relegation battle as we keep losing games that we should draw. We should've drew at Ipswich, gave them a goal. Tonight, ditto.
And when we lose games like this, not only are we dropping a point, we're giving absolutely mediocre Charlton side 2 extra points.
My impression of Ryan Mason so far is that he's overly cautious coach who plays boring football. The subs tonight with Gilchrist and Mepham coming on appeared to be designed to enable us to "hang on". No disrespect to Charlton, but they're not Man City. Why does our manager not feel that we could make some positive changes and nick the points.
I've said before under previous regimes that negative football is acceptable if it's delivering results. However, when you're dull and losing every week, it's not good enough.