Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Blimey. they DOMINATED the game after 15 mins.
We weren't great today but..
Blimey. they DOMINATED the game after 15 mins.
We weren't great today but..
I know steve, from deals I did with players moving to Crawley and he is actually ok, he knows his football and his
Brother Gee is a very good scout they do their homework.
Did there scouting too, as soon as the game started they pushed right up on Dunk and Greer so they couldn't play any side ways passes and had to resort to hoofing it upfield
Did there scouting too, as soon as the game started they pushed right up on Dunk and Greer so they couldn't play any side ways passes and had to resort to hoofing it upfield
Correct. Strange how other managers seem to do their homework. Amazing what can be achieved with average players if your manager is clever
Same chat we had after. We appear to currently have a manager who has a system he likes to play - irrelevant who his players are.
Now Sami may well have been dealt a poor hand with our transfer dealings, but I just feel a manager worth his corn would start playing to their strengths. I've got friends who didn't like Garcia, but are now singing his praises in that at least he got his team competing and basically had them playing to their strengths.
We're now neither very good defensively or offensively. I think Greer's form has nose dived with the added pressure of covering vacant fullback positions. Our defending is a mess at times. They're all decent players, but the roles they are being asked to do are incredibly challenging that in a game there isn't any real respite for them. If we're doing well, then we're left with 2 at the back and no defensive width.
Bennett is excellent going forward, but very slow in getting back. Calderon is an adequate Championship full back - he is a long way short of a marauding wing back and is being asked to do a job he simply shouldn't be asked to do. Let the guy do what he's best at - defending, with the occasional overlapping run.
'Overlap' is not a tactic being used by us at all as it happens. We've got no one running between the lines, dropping back in to let someone run beyond. We're very square in the way we play, making it easy to organise against.
I'm really lost with what Hyppia is trying to achieve. I defended Garcia as I thought he had a system that could evolve into something better, and there was an organisation there that for the large part worked, despite being a bit dull at times. We look poor in comparison at the moment and the second season running we've gone backwards.
He said they dominated the 2nd half and we played well for the first 20 mins...He was pretty much spot on as rotheram were robbed of 3 points.Blimey. they DOMINATED the game after 15 mins.
We weren't great today but..
Did there scouting too, as soon as the game started they pushed right up on Dunk and Greer so they couldn't play any side ways passes and had to resort to hoofing it upfield