Yes but Hope springs eternal. We sledgers know we are not a good side but at least we deserve some collective effort and a few half decent passing movements to warm the cockles on such a day. You see, it’s the dodgers who keep coming back each year, paying the money and having an opinion.
We are sitting far too deep and inviting a siege mentality. We are using screeners in front of the back three instead of picking up the spare men. Looks desperate
Yes, but on arriving at the club he made repeatedly bullish comments about the number of injuries in the squad and how it was a result of culture, mismanagement by medical/fitness staff and incompetence. Live by the sword die by the sword
If you put aside self-delusion, blind faith and wishful thing, we are shit. Passing is shocking, first touch shocking, tracking back shocking, positional play shocking. We play at League 1 pace.
There is a tactical, game awareness fault line in our play which allows teams again and again to get in on our box unopposed. When the ball is brought forward and developed down one flank we completely overload that side and a simple ball that switches the play leaves us completely exposed. It’s happened a lot this season
We can play and the tempo is better. However we have to be more compact when faced with a team countering us. Even on a moderately paced break away we look too open. Second we have to do much better at shutting down crosses into the box. Cardiff’s Giles had a field day.