16-09-2014, 11:05
So, my thoughts on this game:
Firstly, this fixture will now be a fond one for me as last year’s was the first game my kids attended (although as we were in FM lower and it was shitty weather we left on 70 minutes – first time I’ve ever left a game early and then we score a late winner – maybe I should do it more often?)
This time round will be very tough. Some people have managed to take positives from Saturday but, despite my usual optimism, I didn’t see many. I truly believe our only real hope is to go old school 442 with two proper wingers putting crosses in for our forwards, and a midfield tasked with trying to play the odd through ball or dinked ball over the top for Nakhi Wells.
My suggested formation/line up:
Smithies
Pelts Hudson Lynch Robinson
Lolley Butterfield Coady Ward
Wells Stead/Bunn
But we need a loanee striker. Vaughan is fast becoming a half-season wonder. His glass ankles and Scholes-like approach to tackling must render him a liability – you could excuse it if he gave us the goals we got I his loan spell, but that is beginning to fade into the memory. Stead is not the answer. His best days are behind him and , aside from his goal, not sure what he brings. Our back 4 look up, sea him there all lanky and gangly and think “he’s a target man” so pump it forwards and yet he never wins a header – he barely jumps! So frustrating.
I’d be very happy with a dull, dour 0-0 here – we need to stop shipping goals and tighten up, and surely Powell will be able to see it given his defensive position as a player?
So, 442, grind out a dull result and build from the back. All of the best and most successful managers in our game have addresses weak defensive habits and this has to be our starting point. Personally, I’d make Hudson captain. On Saturday he marshalled the back line and was more vocal then Pelts, who was given the job before he joined because he was just about the only candidate. We now have a natural leader so let’s make him skipper and be done with it. If Pelts spits his dummy, it proves he shouldn’t have been given the job in the first place.
Is anyone else finding being a Town fan wearisome at the moment?
Firstly, this fixture will now be a fond one for me as last year’s was the first game my kids attended (although as we were in FM lower and it was shitty weather we left on 70 minutes – first time I’ve ever left a game early and then we score a late winner – maybe I should do it more often?)
This time round will be very tough. Some people have managed to take positives from Saturday but, despite my usual optimism, I didn’t see many. I truly believe our only real hope is to go old school 442 with two proper wingers putting crosses in for our forwards, and a midfield tasked with trying to play the odd through ball or dinked ball over the top for Nakhi Wells.
My suggested formation/line up:
Smithies
Pelts Hudson Lynch Robinson
Lolley Butterfield Coady Ward
Wells Stead/Bunn
But we need a loanee striker. Vaughan is fast becoming a half-season wonder. His glass ankles and Scholes-like approach to tackling must render him a liability – you could excuse it if he gave us the goals we got I his loan spell, but that is beginning to fade into the memory. Stead is not the answer. His best days are behind him and , aside from his goal, not sure what he brings. Our back 4 look up, sea him there all lanky and gangly and think “he’s a target man” so pump it forwards and yet he never wins a header – he barely jumps! So frustrating.
I’d be very happy with a dull, dour 0-0 here – we need to stop shipping goals and tighten up, and surely Powell will be able to see it given his defensive position as a player?
So, 442, grind out a dull result and build from the back. All of the best and most successful managers in our game have addresses weak defensive habits and this has to be our starting point. Personally, I’d make Hudson captain. On Saturday he marshalled the back line and was more vocal then Pelts, who was given the job before he joined because he was just about the only candidate. We now have a natural leader so let’s make him skipper and be done with it. If Pelts spits his dummy, it proves he shouldn’t have been given the job in the first place.
Is anyone else finding being a Town fan wearisome at the moment?
Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly