Quote from: GarTomas on January 19, 2019, 05:38:36 PMNeeds time to bring the right type of player in. Purslow said part of the attraction of Smith was his pedigree for setting sides up to play in an attacking style. Right now some of the players he has are just bang average.That might be true, but it doesn’t give him a free pass. He’s responsible for coaching our squad to be better and setting them up in a way that best suits them. There’s some rubbish in there no doubt, but equally he’s hardly pulling up trees in his role either at the moment.
Needs time to bring the right type of player in. Purslow said part of the attraction of Smith was his pedigree for setting sides up to play in an attacking style. Right now some of the players he has are just bang average.
I said a few days ago a lot of the players look like they're struggling with the workload because we didn't have a summer of focusing on this type of game so right now we're seeing players fall back on things they were doing under Bruce because that's what they're fit enough for.Ads made a good point as well which is teams are letting our defence have the ball. I would add though that they are also having the odd rush at Chester and Taylor because they can both be harried into basic errors at the moment.
Quote from: paul_e on January 20, 2019, 12:56:46 AMI said a few days ago a lot of the players look like they're struggling with the workload because we didn't have a summer of focusing on this type of game so right now we're seeing players fall back on things they were doing under Bruce because that's what they're fit enough for.Ads made a good point as well which is teams are letting our defence have the ball. I would add though that they are also having the odd rush at Chester and Taylor because they can both be harried into basic errors at the moment.Which isn't helped by Kalinic consistently trying to pass to them when they're under pressure.
As we've seen both the good and the poor performances under DS, are we really saying that when he is able to rebuild the squad we will not see more of the good performances? If this means staying in this division for a while longer, until we have proper recruits for all positions, is that not a better proposition than mix & match, scraping through and winning the play-offs and getting battered in the premier league, (as we have more room for error where we are now)?
The youth ranks probably haven't been used because they are not up to it. Grealish was one that forced his way in because he was a stand out, it is do possible if you are good enough.
Unfortunately under previous managers we've always bought and not pushed the youth, understandably in a way because they take time to nurture, so now we've got players like Sulliman who is 21 this week and hasn't played a game for us. They should be being blooded at 17/18/19 imo. If you're going to go with the youth you have to start much earlier with them, give them a decent run of games, be a lot more ruthless in discarding those not up to the grade and realise its not consistent with a promotion challenge. I'd be up for it, but i'm not sure the novelty wouldn't wear off quickly for some of us.