| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt 18:56 - Mar 17 with 4673 views | cbower |
Until the summer when he must get the recruitment right. At the club right now we don't have the strikers to play his preferred system. Norwood is our best bet but even he is significantly better with a partner. Those talking about Oli Hawkins as the lone striker - I can see why and perhaps in the short term he could help bring the three behind him into the game? He is not, however, anywhere near mobile enough for me. The supply line to our attacking players through midfield is rubbish. I just wish we had a few players who will shoot from 20+ yards too. Bobbly pitches and L1 keepers would give us some excitement. |  |
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| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:58 - Mar 18 with 538 views | chrismakin |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:52 - Mar 18 by clive_baker |
Agree with you. Feels like he's trying to force a similar system to Lambert without the personnel for it. Of course Lambert had over 2 years and countless signings to create the personnel for it, which is completely inexcusable. I trust Cook to get it right in time, but as we sit here right now with 8 important weeks ahead of us I think we need a back to basics approach. Step up Norwood, Jackson, Hawkins. |
Problem we have is the volume of players out of contract soon
Paul has no time to see what players are like other than matchdays
We know PC has a system it works for him. He would be daft to go another way after being so successful with that system.
Whilst I appreciate we are 7th. The bigger picture is that Paul needs to find out who from our squad can fit in his plans for the summer and going. Hes pretty much said as such in his post game comments. |  |
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| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 11:13 - Mar 18 with 507 views | clive_baker |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:58 - Mar 18 by chrismakin |
Problem we have is the volume of players out of contract soon
Paul has no time to see what players are like other than matchdays
We know PC has a system it works for him. He would be daft to go another way after being so successful with that system.
Whilst I appreciate we are 7th. The bigger picture is that Paul needs to find out who from our squad can fit in his plans for the summer and going. Hes pretty much said as such in his post game comments. |
I take a slightly different approach personally. Tomorrow never comes in football, we have an opportunity to have a proper crack at promotion in the here and now. Planning for next season can wait until we've finished this one, I don't see this as an extended pre season. Its a free hit for Cook in that if we don't go up it's not his fault, but we should prioritise trying to go up ahead of looking further ahead. If we were midtable that's very different. Cook will still be learning every day, regardless of system. It's possible of course that PC does believe this system is the best option in the short term, which I would respectfully disagree on. For me it's all about doing what we can over the next 2 months to get us to Wembley. The rest can wait. |  |
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| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 11:24 - Mar 18 with 492 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 11:13 - Mar 18 by clive_baker |
I take a slightly different approach personally. Tomorrow never comes in football, we have an opportunity to have a proper crack at promotion in the here and now. Planning for next season can wait until we've finished this one, I don't see this as an extended pre season. Its a free hit for Cook in that if we don't go up it's not his fault, but we should prioritise trying to go up ahead of looking further ahead. If we were midtable that's very different. Cook will still be learning every day, regardless of system. It's possible of course that PC does believe this system is the best option in the short term, which I would respectfully disagree on. For me it's all about doing what we can over the next 2 months to get us to Wembley. The rest can wait. |
Listening to Pompey and Wigan fans, that just won't happen. He's 4-2-3-1 every week regardless of personnel.
I don't believe that we haven't got the players to play it properly, we've just been so poorly coached for so long. Gillingham and Fleetwood we've been rank bad and not turned up at all, I don't think that has anything to do with the system. The week after Pompey will be key, it gives him time to get his ideas across. |  | | |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:27 - Mar 19 with 416 views | BlueWorldOrder |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:52 - Mar 18 by clive_baker |
Agree with you. Feels like he's trying to force a similar system to Lambert without the personnel for it. Of course Lambert had over 2 years and countless signings to create the personnel for it, which is completely inexcusable. I trust Cook to get it right in time, but as we sit here right now with 8 important weeks ahead of us I think we need a back to basics approach. Step up Norwood, Jackson, Hawkins. |
Did he? Most of the players were signed by Hurst and Mick? |  |
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| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 10:51 - Mar 19 with 405 views | dirtyboy |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 11:24 - Mar 18 by tractorboy1978 |
Listening to Pompey and Wigan fans, that just won't happen. He's 4-2-3-1 every week regardless of personnel.
I don't believe that we haven't got the players to play it properly, we've just been so poorly coached for so long. Gillingham and Fleetwood we've been rank bad and not turned up at all, I don't think that has anything to do with the system. The week after Pompey will be key, it gives him time to get his ideas across. |
I really like 4-2-3-1, but unlike how you see it played mostly, Bishop and Dozzell aren't particularly defensive minded and our full backs aren't exactly the quickest moving up the pitch.
So in that respect, I don't think we do have the right personnel at the moment, but Downes and KVY together can rectify that somewhat over what's been available of late.
You're simply back to square pegs in round holes debate again.
I'm not also sure who the best number 10 is, do you put Bishop in there or Judge? Bishop is certainly the player that looks most likely to open things up, but I feel sorry for him in that he's been asked to play in that back two of late and then in the three and that's not ideal when Cook talks about partnerships.
That said, Cook is simply learning still. Once he knows who can do what where, he'll start to settle and bring in the one or two that will make all the difference. |  | | |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 12:07 - Mar 19 with 390 views | Keaneish |
| Cook must play the hand he has been dealt on 19:19 - Mar 17 by Dubtractor |
As well as the lack of a striker able to play the lone role effectively, we seem to have a lack of effective wide players and AM, despite seemingly having bloody loads of them - obviously compounded by our appalling loan business this season.
Its a point made again and again, but our recruitment has been dreadful for a few years, seemingly no real analytical work on the players we sign, who time and again prove unable to do the roles we recruit them for.
Even someone like Kyle Vassell for Fleetwood would dramatically improve our attacking play, vaguely mobile, holds the ball up, brings supporting players in. Rather than our clowns with the first touch of a trampoline and zero bravery with the ball.
Bloody hell it is depressing. |
Kyle Vassell and improvement on Norwood? Not for me. |  |
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