Our players are setting up like cowards. I've said this before, but every time our keeper had the ball at his feet there was someone charging him down, forcing him to hit an aimless long ball. Every time their keeper or defenders had the ball we camped back in our own half, giving them all the time and space they needed to move forward the way they wanted to. There was a point at 0-0 where their back players were ten yards inside our half with the ball and we still didn't have a player putting them under pressure. That's just ludicrous in any game of football.
I don't know what Mohsni thought he was doing in the build up to their goal (does anyone ever?) but we didn't deserve to win so I'm not even that pissed off about that.
Walsh was the one positive from that game (McGregor had a good game at right back but I want to see him have great games in central defence) and the reason he and Murdoch can come in and look good is because they just want to get things done quickly and directly. Everyone else wants to stop on the ball and spend a couple of seconds thinking about what to do with it, particularly when we're in crossing positions ('We are all Ian Black'™). Wallace should be bending them round the defender instead of cutting back on himself constantly, and for xxxx's sake can someone just fire in a cross low and hard once in a while instead of trying to float everything to the back xxxx post?
I don't know what Mohsni thought he was doing in the build up to their goal (does anyone ever?) but we didn't deserve to win so I'm not even that pissed off about that.
Walsh was the one positive from that game (McGregor had a good game at right back but I want to see him have great games in central defence) and the reason he and Murdoch can come in and look good is because they just want to get things done quickly and directly. Everyone else wants to stop on the ball and spend a couple of seconds thinking about what to do with it, particularly when we're in crossing positions ('We are all Ian Black'™). Wallace should be bending them round the defender instead of cutting back on himself constantly, and for xxxx's sake can someone just fire in a cross low and hard once in a while instead of trying to float everything to the back xxxx post?