| Cohesion 17:33 - Oct 5 with 1315 views | BrianTablet |
The cogniscenti believe it's all about buying/loaning as many 'better' players as cash allows. As if football teams are made by cutting and pasting these into a team.
Maybe it can work, but the power of team spirit and cohesion is so hard to attain, and so easy to lose. Players need to trust what other players will do, which run they will make, whether to go long or come short. This massive overhaul is putting all that we had at risk.
There is very little defensive cohesion, and almost none when we attack. It does take time, but confidence is hard won and once lost, will take a string of wins to get back.
That's a tough feat at this level.
I really hope we get that balance back and not turn to 'we need to buy big in the January window'.
I hope we'll be ok. I trust Kieron's coaching and man-management. Fan patience may be less reliable, but that's football. Beating Everton would help.
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| Cohesion on 17:41 - Oct 5 with 1222 views | badadski |
Phillips was smiling when walking off - looked like he was still playing for west ham and was laxidaisy all game until being subbed - wasn’t impressed at all by him - clarke and hutch were bullied way too easily and too slight for the physicality of wet spam - they defended well against us and similar to Southampton when we got into good positions to cross in the box didn’t make the most of it unlike westham who were clinical when they needed to be - |  | | |
| Cohesion on 19:30 - Oct 5 with 1120 views | Vegtablue |
There were many occasions last season when we seemed to have little defensive cohesion, while against the better teams in the league we sometimes showed little attacking cohesion. Leeds and West Brom away immediately jump to mind as games in which we created genuinely nothing. If we'd kept the same squad we would now be reliving the Leeds away experience on steroids most weekends IMO, as tempting as it is to believe our team spirit would have conquered all. I think I'm right in saying we averaged 1 PPG against last season's top 6 in the Championship, and none of them were a patch on today's West Ham side. The Championship's best player last season isn't good enough to start for them. What you say about improving our cohesion and balance with existing players is very important. I doubt we have the funds to buy a handful of upgrades in January tbh, even if McKenna wanted to. | | | |
| Cohesion on 20:01 - Oct 5 with 1055 views | itfcsuth |
| Cohesion on 17:41 - Oct 5 by badadski |
Phillips was smiling when walking off - looked like he was still playing for west ham and was laxidaisy all game until being subbed - wasn’t impressed at all by him - clarke and hutch were bullied way too easily and too slight for the physicality of wet spam - they defended well against us and similar to Southampton when we got into good positions to cross in the box didn’t make the most of it unlike westham who were clinical when they needed to be - |
Phillips was smiling as the West Fans by the dugout were giving him stick, he was just sarcastically smiling it off. |  | | |
| Cohesion on 08:44 - Oct 6 with 846 views | BloomBlue |
I also viewed it as telepathy. Last couple of seasons with the same players, they built up that knowledge about what each player would do without even having to look. So a Chaplin running towards his own goal just hits a ball hard and to his left and over the opposition defence knowing Burns has already started his run. Burns started his run even though Chaplin is facing the opposite way, because he knows Chaplin is going to hit the ball left/backwards over the top - telepathy.
That's what comes from playing regularly together. Most opposition managers mentioned it last season, the point about how each player knows where the other players will be without even the need to look. That's why we won promotion last season
Most experts have said this season, replicating that with all the new players will be the challenge for KM.
I see what we have is what Forest had when they were promoted a couple of seasons ago and had loads of changes, they struggled but did survive. |  | | |
| Cohesion on 09:20 - Oct 6 with 788 views | WeWereZombies |
| Cohesion on 08:44 - Oct 6 by BloomBlue |
I also viewed it as telepathy. Last couple of seasons with the same players, they built up that knowledge about what each player would do without even having to look. So a Chaplin running towards his own goal just hits a ball hard and to his left and over the opposition defence knowing Burns has already started his run. Burns started his run even though Chaplin is facing the opposite way, because he knows Chaplin is going to hit the ball left/backwards over the top - telepathy.
That's what comes from playing regularly together. Most opposition managers mentioned it last season, the point about how each player knows where the other players will be without even the need to look. That's why we won promotion last season
Most experts have said this season, replicating that with all the new players will be the challenge for KM.
I see what we have is what Forest had when they were promoted a couple of seasons ago and had loads of changes, they struggled but did survive. |
I think telepathy is the wrong word, there is no bogus pseudoscience ability missing. The squad has undergone significant change in the last couple of months and it will take time for new understandings to develop. We probably only have a couple of months left to get the cohesion that the OP desires, otherwise we will be stuck in a bottom four and in jeopardy for the rest of the season. I think we have seen enough against Fulham, Brighton and Villa to hope that McKenna finds enough solutions to progress up the table but remember that every other team in the division will study what we do and seek to break it up. |  |
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| Cohesion on 10:31 - Oct 6 with 717 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Or you could call it blind panic - and a betrayal of players who took the club so far so fast | |
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| Cohesion on 10:40 - Oct 6 with 686 views | wkj |
| Cohesion on 10:31 - Oct 6 by ElephantintheRoom |
Or you could call it blind panic - and a betrayal of players who took the club so far so fast |
A betrayal of players who you also slagged off to have a bit of a moan because your comical bid to buy the club was turned down. Let it go |  |
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