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Biggs":1nycdy9e said:MarkMatthews":1nycdy9e said:PL2 3DQ":1nycdy9e said:And yet, in December, Adams changed his whole tactical mindset and formation to enable both Carey and Lameiras to fit into the team which has resulted in good attacking football and good results.
Exactly. And how long had (the then) anti Adams, (and now turned pro) section of the fan base been calling for that?! We would be in the playoffs IMO, if that had been adopted when first called for by a significant proportion of the fan base.
Or the foundations had been built and confidence to play League One football was sufficient enough to be more expansive. Plus we'd been doing very well before Lameiras came into the side, and as I said before, Graham Carey has been expressing himself ever since Adams arrived.
It's such an incredibly simplistic view to just say that he should have listened to fans earlier. If he'd just adopted more attacking tactics in League 2, would we have been promoted? Would we have done so well against Liverpool?
I very much doubt it. Football tactics are like a see-saw, one push too far either way and the side becomes unbalanced. When things change as they have recently (our confidence, Toums, Lameiras finding form), you have to adjust and push it the other way a little.
Adams has done that, and it's really bizarre that people find a way to criticise it.
It will be very interesting to see how things develop from now on post Toumani and whether the plain truth is that the addition of a midfield player of some pedigree and goal scoring ability was behind the upturn in results rather than any tactical or style shift.One point from two games, no matter how much pretty passing football was played during a 3-1 home defeat, would suggest [albeit at an admittedly early stage] that there may well be a major problem in replacing the contribution made by TD.