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Changes for next week
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If you tried every combination in defence and you still conceding set piece goals I would suggest that it doesn't matter who we pick.
I'm afraid we just don't have the players to play possession football and we certainly don't have the defenders who know how to defend. Unfortunately, tough times ahead.
Best example I can give currently of how difficult it is to make changes to this team, is Riley. Shouldn't be anywhere near this RWB role given how ineffective he has been. A complete waste of space. Going forward he doesn't have a scooby doo what to do with the ball. That right hand side of our team needs serious TLC but who do you put there from the current squad?
I'm afraid we just don't have the players to play possession football and we certainly don't have the defenders who know how to defend. Unfortunately, tough times ahead.
Best example I can give currently of how difficult it is to make changes to this team, is Riley. Shouldn't be anywhere near this RWB role given how ineffective he has been. A complete waste of space. Going forward he doesn't have a scooby doo what to do with the ball. That right hand side of our team needs serious TLC but who do you put there from the current squad?
cheshiregreen":lgemrb2m said:
5-2 I recall, Stevie Castle hat-trick. One of the best games of football I’ve ever seen. Shame there were only about 80 Argyle fans to see it.
Metal_Green_Mickey":3hy6qeh8 said:
Totally agree RWB is our biggest problem to me.. most teams know we are good on the left but have nothing down the right. If we had equal attacking threat on both flanks we would be really hard to deal with. Byron Moore RWB? Maybe this will happen when Telford is fit.?
JannerinCardiff":2duoqmnh said:
I have always maintained I think things will get worse, before they get better. Its almost like he feels it will come good but I've afraid sometimes you have to adapt if you
a). don't have the players at your disposal
b). opposition managers have figured out weaknesses in your tactics
It bothers me that he thinks we played well in games I watched us squeak by in. Carlisle at home is a prime example. We really struggled and if they had anything about them going forward we could of lost those 3pts easily.
I'm not sure the penny is gonna drop until we have lost a few more games unfortunately because when I listen to Lowe I don't hear a manager looking to change and adapt anytime soon.
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There are two things that Ryan Lowe is too faithful to in my opinion. I think both need some adapting given our personnel and to avoid teams figuring us out so easily.
1) "Playing through the thirds" - i.e. passing it out from the back: Our defenders are not good enough on the ball to do this. I know he wants to be like Man City and Liverpool, but we just can't do it and we put ourselves under too much pressure. The work has to be done off the ball here to give a nervy defender good passing options. Our back line are too static once it has come out and a little bit of a press and it all too often gets lumped forward anyway. Exeter pinned us back today by identifying Edwards is the pivot in the middle between the defenders and attacking players. Law just sat tight on Edwards for most of the game when we had the ball at the back and we did not have an outlet. Any scout that saw Law do that will now advise any opposing manager to do the same, it suffocated anything coming from the back.
2) Getting to the byline for low balls across the box: Taylor's goal at Home Park from this very move early in the season has helped to justify what is usually an ineffective tactic. There have been a number of times where McFadzean and Mayor in particular, have an option to pass or drive into a central channel or take the ball outside and get a low cross from the edge of the box. They are drilled by Lowe to look for the latter as a first option, all to often not coming to anything. We seem so much more dangerous when we bring the ball directly into what the Americans would call the 'red zone'. See McFadzean's goal in the week or the goal we keep watching from Mayor at the top of this page. Grant and Sarcevic driving through the middle with options either side to pull the defenders about is often when we look most exciting. For all the good possession we have, it seems to be wasted far too often trying to get down the outside for a low cross that never comes off or is smothered/cleared at the near post.
I am not saying completely ditch these two aspects of our play, but I think to so stubbornly stick with them makes us predictable and feels like a slightly naive approach to League 2 football.
1) "Playing through the thirds" - i.e. passing it out from the back: Our defenders are not good enough on the ball to do this. I know he wants to be like Man City and Liverpool, but we just can't do it and we put ourselves under too much pressure. The work has to be done off the ball here to give a nervy defender good passing options. Our back line are too static once it has come out and a little bit of a press and it all too often gets lumped forward anyway. Exeter pinned us back today by identifying Edwards is the pivot in the middle between the defenders and attacking players. Law just sat tight on Edwards for most of the game when we had the ball at the back and we did not have an outlet. Any scout that saw Law do that will now advise any opposing manager to do the same, it suffocated anything coming from the back.
2) Getting to the byline for low balls across the box: Taylor's goal at Home Park from this very move early in the season has helped to justify what is usually an ineffective tactic. There have been a number of times where McFadzean and Mayor in particular, have an option to pass or drive into a central channel or take the ball outside and get a low cross from the edge of the box. They are drilled by Lowe to look for the latter as a first option, all to often not coming to anything. We seem so much more dangerous when we bring the ball directly into what the Americans would call the 'red zone'. See McFadzean's goal in the week or the goal we keep watching from Mayor at the top of this page. Grant and Sarcevic driving through the middle with options either side to pull the defenders about is often when we look most exciting. For all the good possession we have, it seems to be wasted far too often trying to get down the outside for a low cross that never comes off or is smothered/cleared at the near post.
I am not saying completely ditch these two aspects of our play, but I think to so stubbornly stick with them makes us predictable and feels like a slightly naive approach to League 2 football.
PMPilgrim":35iabiu1 said:
Clocks have just gone back. I've had a look and saw that we're 10th, and as it stands, 5 Points off an automatic promotion spot and 13 Points off the solitary relegation one.
Not quite mid Table mediocrity and a long way off getting relegated.
It's not beyond the realms of fantasy to clinch a playoff spot, or, dare I say it, a top 3 spot, and a good time to reflect that losing to a Club that just a week or two ago were apparently of no concern as a worthy rival to us, has not relegated us or definitely denied us promotion and there's another 30 Games to go yet.
One terrible performance and a few bruised egos, we can be better than that surely ? I wont let it define my Season.
Certainly not.This is a discussion forum.I think too many cooks are spoiling the broth.Balham_Green":29ojd84m said:
It will be a while until josh grant gets a game I would imagine. We need Baxter and Telford back soon and to stay injury free. Rudden can also have a stint on the bench in my opinion.
