10-10-2016, 17:01
I'm sure leaving out Ariyibi would not help. Very, very few players want to be crap though some, like O'Shea, never realise that spectators are aware when they've taken the day off despite being on the field. I'd play Ariyibi in a reserve game against the weakest full back we can find so he can take someone apart again and get that feeling back.
I've often said the best organised team I ever played for in amateur football came from the very amateurish approach of picking the best eleven players and working out the way to play from there. We ended up with an extra centre back in front of the defence playing the role AC Milan think they developed with Desailly years later ........ So if Maguire's one of the best eleven does our left back have to be an attacker, why couldn't a left midfielder take advantage of the permanent cover and push on a bit more? Why not Donohue in midfield in front of Maguire? Strong left side?
Like Dancing I'd like to see Dennis and Evans in tandem but I agree Danny seems to be agin it.
Gardner can play can't he? But he isn't. He needs to learn it is his fault and no amount of sulking is a substitute for using the ability he definitely possesses. I'd give him recordings to watch ....... of himself being anonymous, then I'd let him watch Scott Hogan playing at Brentford, Lee Gregory at Millwall, and Jamie Vardy at Leicester. He shares having ability and having been stuck at Halifax with all three. They make themselves a nightmare for defenders and get rewarded with goals, he expects ability to take him there like magic and clocks up the very occasional brilliant goal. You could show him Barnsley's Halifax centre half Roberts too .... is he policing Championship forwards by strolling like Beckenbauer, or is he giving 100%? Gardner was as good as the others at Halifax ..... leaving him out only seems to make him more resentful. perhaps he needs the picture painting for him? If he doesn't wake up soon he will have thrown away the lifeline Chesterfield threw him relatively late in his footballing career.
If you have three forwards good enough to play it should be a strength. Danny only seems willing to use early subs in very negative situations where they won't mean a thing ...... if you're 3-0 down unless you've got Stevie Gerrard on his best day, subbing won't save you. But taking Wilkinson off after 60 minutes and putting on Dennis (a different kind of player and sharp too) would be a nightmare for defenders. You can choose your starting men with the opposition in mind - two 6' 4" centre backs, tough but clumsy, then go for Dennis and Evans to rip 'em up and when they've got used to that turn to Wilkinson. I know it sounds amateurish but I'm sure professional teams are sometimes too determinedly professional ....
I've often said the best organised team I ever played for in amateur football came from the very amateurish approach of picking the best eleven players and working out the way to play from there. We ended up with an extra centre back in front of the defence playing the role AC Milan think they developed with Desailly years later ........ So if Maguire's one of the best eleven does our left back have to be an attacker, why couldn't a left midfielder take advantage of the permanent cover and push on a bit more? Why not Donohue in midfield in front of Maguire? Strong left side?
Like Dancing I'd like to see Dennis and Evans in tandem but I agree Danny seems to be agin it.
Gardner can play can't he? But he isn't. He needs to learn it is his fault and no amount of sulking is a substitute for using the ability he definitely possesses. I'd give him recordings to watch ....... of himself being anonymous, then I'd let him watch Scott Hogan playing at Brentford, Lee Gregory at Millwall, and Jamie Vardy at Leicester. He shares having ability and having been stuck at Halifax with all three. They make themselves a nightmare for defenders and get rewarded with goals, he expects ability to take him there like magic and clocks up the very occasional brilliant goal. You could show him Barnsley's Halifax centre half Roberts too .... is he policing Championship forwards by strolling like Beckenbauer, or is he giving 100%? Gardner was as good as the others at Halifax ..... leaving him out only seems to make him more resentful. perhaps he needs the picture painting for him? If he doesn't wake up soon he will have thrown away the lifeline Chesterfield threw him relatively late in his footballing career.
If you have three forwards good enough to play it should be a strength. Danny only seems willing to use early subs in very negative situations where they won't mean a thing ...... if you're 3-0 down unless you've got Stevie Gerrard on his best day, subbing won't save you. But taking Wilkinson off after 60 minutes and putting on Dennis (a different kind of player and sharp too) would be a nightmare for defenders. You can choose your starting men with the opposition in mind - two 6' 4" centre backs, tough but clumsy, then go for Dennis and Evans to rip 'em up and when they've got used to that turn to Wilkinson. I know it sounds amateurish but I'm sure professional teams are sometimes too determinedly professional ....