Only watched 20minutes in the first half last night and was totally uninspired. This is Bruce's 2nd close season and I couldn't see any progress and certainly no new ideas. What does he or his coaches do in training? In those 20 minutes we were pedestrian and lacking in movement. There was too much interplay between the back 4. We went a goal down and knew there was no way back. Even against Kiddy we went a goal down and still failed to turn it round for a win. Players like Bree and Kodjia were struggling to do the basics. It was painful viewing against West f-cking spam. Never mind that's friendlies for you.
I thought we played ok for long spells. Nothing really concerned me from last night given the oppo and the circumstances.
Wonder what we can learn from that match? We are still mostly gash...
Quote from: maigrait on July 25, 2018, 09:32:13 PMWonder what we can learn from that match? We are still mostly gash...That any money we are allowed to spend has got to go on defenders. Even if Chester stays were well light at CB's. With all the money we have spent how have they managed to neglect the defence so much? Elmo,Bree, RDL,Taylor all not good enough if were aiming top two imo. Hutton has been immense for us but is an ageing force. And we need to replace Sam Johnson too.
Quote from: The Edge on July 26, 2018, 11:51:27 AMQuote from: maigrait on July 25, 2018, 09:32:13 PMWonder what we can learn from that match? We are still mostly gash...That any money we are allowed to spend has got to go on defenders. Even if Chester stays were well light at CB's. With all the money we have spent how have they managed to neglect the defence so much? Elmo,Bree, RDL,Taylor all not good enough if were aiming top two imo. Hutton has been immense for us but is an ageing force. And we need to replace Sam Johnson too.How you can say Elmo, Bree, RDL aren't good enough and then claim Hutton has been immense is quite something
My concern from the game last night isn't that we lost, it's that scored 3 of the easiest goals they'll score all year, 3 times they ran through us like we were cones on a training field. We need to fix that because there's plenty of teams in the championship with a quick striker who'll happily carry the ball through gaps like that, they won't be as clinical but we can't let our keeper be exposed so often.A couple of days ago I posted a team I thought we should go with (largely based on no signings) where I went with us rotating through Lyden, Doyle-Hayes and Clarke in midfield. Watching last night I'm more convinced that we need to go that way, JDH and Grealish were like 2 professionals thrown into a pub team. However the slight change I'd make is that I'd prioritise getting a proper left wing-back so we can push Green up to 10 and then have a midfield of Jedi, JDH and Jack.
Quote from: paul_e on July 26, 2018, 10:05:39 AMMy concern from the game last night isn't that we lost, it's that scored 3 of the easiest goals they'll score all year, 3 times they ran through us like we were cones on a training field. We need to fix that because there's plenty of teams in the championship with a quick striker who'll happily carry the ball through gaps like that, they won't be as clinical but we can't let our keeper be exposed so often.A couple of days ago I posted a team I thought we should go with (largely based on no signings) where I went with us rotating through Lyden, Doyle-Hayes and Clarke in midfield. Watching last night I'm more convinced that we need to go that way, JDH and Grealish were like 2 professionals thrown into a pub team. However the slight change I'd make is that I'd prioritise getting a proper left wing-back so we can push Green up to 10 and then have a midfield of Jedi, JDH and Jack.I still think we might see Jedinak as part of the back three if we continue with that formation.