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Bleeding hell. Four days after the season ended and he still hasn’t signed a kick into the stands centre half! We’re doomed. Doomed I tell you.
 
Feb 8, 2005
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Season hasn't ended for four League 1 Clubs!

Let's see who gets promoted and see if they discard one or two of their centre halves because of the big jump up in the league.
 

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Most players contracts run until the 30th June. We could sign a player early on a non context agreement but I’d expect most signings to happen from 1st July.
 
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Always find it odd how we used to curse the "blood and snotters" approach and centre halves who couldn't pass the ball 2 yards to a holding midfielder.

Now we want an old fashioned centre half to hoof it long.

If we want Lowe's style of play then bringing in a no nonsense defender will only hinder us IMO. Opposition will work out who "that defender" is and pressure the other 2 (if we play a back 3) to pass to him knowing that he will boot it long/out of play/halfway to Exeter.

We aren't going to find a strong/speedy/ball-playing well rounded defender at this level.
 
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JannerinCardiff":3dsnreiu said:
Most players contracts run until the 30th June. We could sign a player early on a non context agreement but I’d expect most signings to happen from 1st July.

We do not want to pay wages early in the summer, when finances are so tight!
 

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Adam_R":199n6n9y said:
Always find it odd how we used to curse the "blood and snotters" approach and centre halves who couldn't pass the ball 2 yards to a holding midfielder.

Now we want an old fashioned centre half to hoof it long.

If we want Lowe's style of play then bringing in a no nonsense defender will only hinder us IMO. Opposition will work out who "that defender" is and pressure the other 2 (if we play a back 3) to pass to him knowing that he will boot it long/out of play/halfway to Exeter.

We aren't going to find a strong/speedy/ball-playing well rounded defender at this level.

It’ll definitely need to be a balancing act when it comes to signing CB’s. We can’t do what we’ve done this season, but as you say we also can’t just go and sign ablood and snotter row Z types either.

We need players who are going to fit with the style of play and the formation, but who also have real character and a winning mentality.

Oh for another Sonny Bradley, he had both sides.
 
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With someone like Bradley we might even start scoring at set pieces, not sure if it's height in the box for the delivery or the delivery itself, but where as teams seemed to help themselves at our end we did little at the other so another facet required of one of the 'ball playing' 'row Z kicking ' 'leaders'. Bet you don't get many of them to the pound either.
 

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It isn't so much about whether a defender is a hoof it or pass it player, it is more needing a player who can pass but knows when putting your boot through the ball is the right thing to do at the time.

That's called experience.
 

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As many have suggested, I do think he needs a specialist defensive coach.
I have just listened back to the last fans’ forum in March when Neil Dewsnip was asked about this and he said that we do have one but refused to say who has that role. I did not think he dealt with that question well and, from Sparksy’s follow up question, he didn’t seem to think that he had adequately covered the question submitted by supporters.
Dewsnip seemed to blame the problem on the young, inexperienced defenders which, obviously, was a large part of the problem but, as he is responsible for recruitment, surely, they should have realised that when releasing Canavan and Wootton in January.
I do think that they became complacent in January and February due to a decent spell of results but I think that, regardless of our recruitment success, we will still need to be convinced about our defensive coaching.
 
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Argylegames":3396id9k said:
It isn't so much about whether a defender is a hoof it or pass it player, it is more needing a player who can pass but knows when putting your boot through the ball is the right thing to do at the time.

That's called experience.

.... and (without turning this into a Lowe bashing as Pasoti is generally more than capable of that without me teeing it up for them) coaching/instruction.

Do they not have experience to put their laces through it?
Are they coached not to put their laces through it?
Does smashing it to Row Z get them more of a b&llocking than if they try to play the system and it leads to a goal?
Do they have ideas above their station (John Stones anyone?)

Some teams just arent setup/coached for certain scenarios. Barca never used to pump the ball into the box when they needed a goal with a few minutes to go... they still played their way and hoped to score.
 
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davie nine":31qrrdjn said:
As many have suggested, I do think he needs a specialist defensive coach.
I have just listened back to the last fans’ forum in March when Neil Dewsnip was asked about this and he said that we do have one but refused to say who has that role. I did not think he dealt with that question well and, from Sparksy’s follow up question, he didn’t seem to think that he had adequately covered the question submitted by supporters.
Dewsnip seemed to blame the problem on the young, inexperienced defenders which, obviously, was a large part of the problem but, as he is responsible for recruitment, surely, they should have realised that when releasing Canavan and Wootton in January.
I do think that they became complacent in January and February due to a decent spell of results but I think that, regardless of our recruitment success, we will still need to be convinced about our defensive coaching.

Agree on all that. I noticed in Ollie Tomlinsons interview he said Nance was coaching him all season, so don't know if that means defensive coaching has been thrust on him, or that he just supports the academy players coming through. Either way, I don't think Nance, as good a coach as he is, is really a specialist defensive coach in the making.