The passing game - should The Albion maintain this?

[LamieRobertson]

ah yes, a moron. Seen you're other shite posts on various threads tonight.

Perhaps you should scream at the players they're playing like a bunch of DAGOS. Gus, Tanno, Calderon, Vicente, Reyes, They'll all love that eh?

Lol..ye I've seen the same drivel ...so seconded!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yes

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

No, I want to watch us play like West ham did tonight.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

This, totaly agree.

We are not Barcelona and until we have a squad that is as good as the best in the division we need to be a bit more savy.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

BBC news weather at 7 am this morning had it pissing down from 6 pm so what happened

 

[the right footed denilson]

No, I want to watch us play like West ham did tonight.

Innit. What's so sad about that is that they have the likes of Collison, Noble, Nolan, O'Neil, Lansbury, and Taylor, all lovely, cultured players, and Fat Sam still insists on that crap.

 

[We're the Stripes]

Whole heartedly YES, we've gotta persist with it, I don't give a shit if this season is a complete write off. Give this side a seasons experience in the championship, learn what works and what doesn't, experience the lows that come with the mistakes that we are making and have a season of playing together as a unit and I'm convinced we'll b a top 6 team next season...

I'm happy to sit back and enjoy the ride

This. Well and truly this.

 

[GT49er]

The passing game? - yes please. It's what the best teams play, like Spain and Barcelona. But the higher up we go, we will be faced by teams with better players, who do it better and faster than we do - and we'll come up against teams (think Stoke away last season) who are very good at counteracting that style.
We're not Barcelona, we haven't got Messi and co. - we need to carry on gradually improving the squad; of course it won't hapen overnight - our entire annual turnover is probably less than a Man City player's basic wages!

 

[GT49er]

Ah yes - the long ball tactic. Hoof-ball. Really worked for us when Ankergren hoofed at 3-2 against Leeds.

Having said that, occasionally it would be good to surprise the opposition...........the 'long ball' as played by Stevie Gerrard wouldn't go amiss occasionally..............

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Playing an attractive style of football will also give us more chance of signing decent players such as Vincente, CMS and Reyes.

 

[ArcticBlue]

Absolutely yes. But the midfield needs to be able to do it a higher tempo. If we could play the way we do with one or two touches, it'd be devastating. At the moment, maybe through a slight dip in confidence, I think we dwell on the ball a fraction too long when there's a break on giving opponents the chance to get bodies back. But that was a good performance - just lack a cutting edge. If we were a little bit more clinical, we wouldn't be in this difficult spell.

Yep.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

yes they bloody should. Patience people. Patience.

 

[NMH]

Yeh... lets not try to play the barcelona way... just hoof it!! If it works for England it must work for us...

You are wrong, and you are a wrong-un. And you are banned because of that

 

[TKC]

99% Yes. Although it seems as though in most games we'll pass in a dangerous position and someone will mess it up. Maybe a 1% increase of not what I'd call hoofing it, but playing intellegantly and getting rid in dangerous positions.

 

[nevergoagain]

Some of the passing football last night was a joy to watch, absolutely the right thing to continue doing. That said though there were times last night when the ball was going between the back 4 and midfield that you could see a pass was going to be underhit or intercepted and cost us, which it did. If we could cut out those mistakes then we will be absolutely fine. Also thought that we should shoot more, last night anything could have happened on that pitch but didn't seem to want to have a go from the edge of the box.

 

[NMH]

As an outsider, your tactics will lead you to win more than you lose. Although having a plan 'B' would make it a lot harder for the opposition to work out how to neutralise your strengths

Agreed, we'd test ...and succeed against clubs with worse defences than West Ham (which most of the division are). But your second point is most telling - we need to have an alternative or other strings to our bow during a match. One save from their keeper is illustrative of something being ineffectual when we are the home side with most possession and playing quite well on the night.

A comfort if any is to be found, is that West Ham will likely win the division this season, on that showing.

 

[Questions]

Personally I'd rather see more of Buckley for us..... and if anything happened to Noone we'll be sorry too.

You will see Buckley when he is fit.
But only from the comfort of your armchair it seems.

 

[alan partridge]

The plan 'B' that people keep going on about should BE (hurhur) and knowing Gus probably will be;

Get better at what we are doing already : We will

Buy better players who are better at doing what we do : We will.

we'll BE fine

 

[alan partridge]

This thread reminded me of one I started about Gus' philosophy and the CL final and Barcelona's style of play. Had a look at it again and who should be there, the charming mr Pork Pie. Enthusing about the 'dago' way no less.

Last night's game and Gus' football philosophy

 

[crodonilson]

If I have a criticism of us it's that we are too predictable. West Ham came and did a job on us, closed down our midfield as soon as they received the ball and that lead to the goal. We certainly need to have a plan B and shouldn't be too proud to revert to a more direct game if nothing else is working. This is why I wanted us to sign a big, bustling striker in the Summer, at least to have a different option from the bench.