| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? 08:48 - Feb 23 with 7632 views | textbackup |
Doing what we are isn’t working, at all, is it.
Trusts Wolfie to come on at Villa, but not enough to start vs spurs.
If Oshea is playing RB yesterday he doesn’t get beaten like ‘Ben Godfrey is a blue’ does time and time again.
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 08:51 - Feb 23 with 3987 views | FrimleyBlue |
Palmer
Townsend
Wolfenden
Burgess
Oshea
Phillips
Cajuste
Broadhead
Hutchinson
J clarke
Hirst |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 08:53 - Feb 23 with 3985 views | Blue_Heath |
Our two biggest failings are central midfield doesn't work and the way the right back is instructed to defend.
Neither have been addressed all season. |  | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:04 - Feb 23 with 3909 views | textbackup |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 08:53 - Feb 23 by Blue_Heath |
Our two biggest failings are central midfield doesn't work and the way the right back is instructed to defend.
Neither have been addressed all season. |
Delap was pissed off. And rightly so | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:13 - Feb 23 with 3869 views | Blue_Heath |
Godfrey is not a blue, can we terminate his loan early please? Didn't want him and yesterday shows why.
Hyped up and over rated when at Naaridge and likely looked good in a poor team but I wouldn't want him in the championship next season to be honest. Is he really better than Harry 'one of our loan' Clarke? | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:16 - Feb 23 with 3832 views | homer_123 |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 08:53 - Feb 23 by Blue_Heath |
Our two biggest failings are central midfield doesn't work and the way the right back is instructed to defend.
Neither have been addressed all season. |
Small point of order. The centre mid was not the issue yesterday.
Wasteful finishing and Son deciding to turn up for Spurs was. |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:39 - Feb 23 with 3785 views | Blue_Heath |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:16 - Feb 23 by homer_123 |
Small point of order. The centre mid was not the issue yesterday.
Wasteful finishing and Son deciding to turn up for Spurs was. |
I expect centre mids to contribute 4/5 goals a season and a few assists as much as Cajuste/Phillips are loved there has been zero creation. Yesterday Cajuste beats about 4 players and then plays the ball into touch.
Maybe yesterday that wasn't the worst area of the pitch but we haven't controlled any game this season. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 10:53 - Feb 23 with 3670 views | JakeITFC |
Shiit goals to concede but thought yesterday we were actually quite good tbh - another day we score a goal early and it’s different or take advantage of the spell with the disallowed goal where we had them on the ropes for about 20 minutes. 4-1 was a ridiculous scoreline given how the game went.
Our season is pretty much over now with the Wolves result and so you hope that heads don’t dip but I thought it was a strong performance in terms of how confident and front foot we were (looked more like the Ipswich of old). |  | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 11:15 - Feb 23 with 3616 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 10:53 - Feb 23 by JakeITFC |
Shiit goals to concede but thought yesterday we were actually quite good tbh - another day we score a goal early and it’s different or take advantage of the spell with the disallowed goal where we had them on the ropes for about 20 minutes. 4-1 was a ridiculous scoreline given how the game went.
Our season is pretty much over now with the Wolves result and so you hope that heads don’t dip but I thought it was a strong performance in terms of how confident and front foot we were (looked more like the Ipswich of old). |
We should have come out of that first 10 minutes a goal up really, had some good chances and lacked a bit of luck. If Spurs go a goal down early, would they have had the backbone to get back into the game? Would they have left us even more space to exploit? We'll never know as we didn't take our chances and they then punished us twice in their first three meaningful attacks. That's the difference at this level. Defensively we were poor for both goals and that's been a big issue at home, we can't get the balance right between being on the front foot and being solid enough to handle the opposition countering. We've done better away where we can be more compact, defensively we've been much better on the road which is odd for a newly promoted team. |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:19 - Feb 23 with 3540 views | textbackup |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 11:15 - Feb 23 by Herbivore |
We should have come out of that first 10 minutes a goal up really, had some good chances and lacked a bit of luck. If Spurs go a goal down early, would they have had the backbone to get back into the game? Would they have left us even more space to exploit? We'll never know as we didn't take our chances and they then punished us twice in their first three meaningful attacks. That's the difference at this level. Defensively we were poor for both goals and that's been a big issue at home, we can't get the balance right between being on the front foot and being solid enough to handle the opposition countering. We've done better away where we can be more compact, defensively we've been much better on the road which is odd for a newly promoted team. |
We should have, but we didn’t.
Our £90m striker 👀 didn’t hit the target, and god knows what happened on that first attack.
Powder puff in attack, piss weak at the back. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:26 - Feb 23 with 3502 views | pointofblue |
That's two weeks in a row where he decided that Woolfenden needed to come on at half time. He could have easily decided to bring on Godfrey and Johnson respectively.
Saying that - and one reason I didn't like it yesterday - I don't think Woolfenden is strong enough in a back four. He did ok yesterday, fourth goal aside, but he's more comfortable in a three. But I think we, as a team, look better in a three too. Especially if we get the right players in front of them, which we've failed to do for too long. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:27 - Feb 23 with 3495 views | Whos_blue |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:39 - Feb 23 by Blue_Heath |
I expect centre mids to contribute 4/5 goals a season and a few assists as much as Cajuste/Phillips are loved there has been zero creation. Yesterday Cajuste beats about 4 players and then plays the ball into touch.
Maybe yesterday that wasn't the worst area of the pitch but we haven't controlled any game this season. |
You didn't see the incredible ball from Phillips into Clarke for Hutch's goal?
Whilst we haven't seen enough of it, that was class. |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:37 - Feb 23 with 3432 views | DavoIPB |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 08:51 - Feb 23 by FrimleyBlue |
Palmer
Townsend
Wolfenden
Burgess
Oshea
Phillips
Cajuste
Broadhead
Hutchinson
J clarke
Hirst |
What? Why would you start Hirst? Our team yesterday was fine with what we had available except swap Davis out for Townsend. We were just unlucky that we had enciso and Tuanzebe out | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:54 - Feb 23 with 3366 views | Len_Brennan |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 09:04 - Feb 23 by textbackup |
Delap was pissed off. And rightly so |
Delap has been amazing for us, but his lack of teamplay at times has cost us too.
Don't get me wrong, I've always like an arrogant, selfish striker, who backs himself when a chance comes, but the kind of quick interplay & cutback, from Phillips -> Clarke -> Hutchinson for our goal yesterday, has been noticeably missing from our games this season.
Omari is guilty of overplaying & running into too much traffic, or releasing a weak, improbable shot too, but Delap wants to do it all himself far too often for my liking.
Of course it resulted in important goals when he wins possession, turns his man & bears down on the goal, but the ones he gets in around the box, with others around him, often offer better opportunties for links, lay offs & smart passes. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 13:17 - Feb 23 with 3298 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:37 - Feb 23 by DavoIPB |
What? Why would you start Hirst? Our team yesterday was fine with what we had available except swap Davis out for Townsend. We were just unlucky that we had enciso and Tuanzebe out |
I've explained why in other threads.
But we've spent two seasons where we didn't rely on our striker to score our goals. They helped to bring others into the goal scoring table aswell as contributing to it themselves.
For all the goals he's scored. Delap is a battering ram.
We concede alot of freekicks from his battles. He rarely picks out a simple pass to spread play or help keep the ball and hes a selfish striker ( think back to philogene v southampton)
That is not in anyway belittling what he is. He is a developing young striker who will become one of the worlds best. However at the moment it isn't imo helping our cause of trying to stay up.
With all the changes we have seen around the playing squad this season, I find it amazing that we haven't given hirst a run in the side. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 13:29 - Feb 23 with 3286 views | Pioneer_Blue |
If he's going to play four at the back then really need three in midfield and play with two 10s. But we've not recruited with that in mind and most of the midfielders we do have are made of glass so not going to happen. Meaning the alternate is a 5 which leaves us too deep and inviting pressure.
Also notable that no one has really replicated the unique Luongo inside-left-deep-midfield role which helped give the cover / license for Leif to bomb on so much last year. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 13:31 - Feb 23 with 3274 views | sjg |
Adapting didn’t get Kompany a move to Bayern in the summer | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 13:32 - Feb 23 with 3255 views | textbackup |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 13:31 - Feb 23 by sjg |
Adapting didn’t get Kompany a move to Bayern in the summer |
Yep… I hear ya. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 16:38 - Feb 23 with 3021 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 12:19 - Feb 23 by textbackup |
We should have, but we didn’t.
Our £90m striker 👀 didn’t hit the target, and god knows what happened on that first attack.
Powder puff in attack, piss weak at the back. |
Why do you hate ITFC so much? Genuinely, you seem to take absolutely zero joy out of supporting Town and haven't done for years. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 16:52 - Feb 23 with 2954 views | badadski |
I think a few more vertical snowballs Won’t go a miss and try and pick up the second ball. We are missing a midfield any way and even yesterday our goal game from picking up the second ball from a defensive header, a couple of nice touches and good finish. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 16:56 - Feb 23 with 2931 views | LankHenners |
In what way?
We adapt all the time - don't know why this season people think we play a very rigid system and are tactically inflexible when in reality it's completely the opposite.
If anything it's almost the opposite in that we've struggled to find the balance between 'being ourselves' and keeping the other team out, but that's largely down to the quality of the opposition.
It's the classic football fan reaction of just thinking that *something else* would have worked better than whatever did happen and they'll always be right in their own mind about it. |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 16:57 - Feb 23 with 2917 views | ibbleobble |
The disappointing for me with KM yesterday is that he set-up the same as we did at West Ham when that was arguably our worst performance this season. He was also bewilderingly naive to the threat of Son given we all know how he likes to play, no matter his form.
KM and Pert used to be able to change a game at half time. I’ve seen little evidence of it this season and we’re now 5 pts worse off against the sides we’ve played twice so either they’ve improved or we’ve got worse.
We won promotion with an enormous amount of points; we’ve spent £140m give or take and have one of the brightest young coaches in the game. If that achievement, momentum and investment isn’t enough to keep us in the PL, then the system is broken, we’ve messed up somewhere or some things aren’t as good as we’d like to believe. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 17:02 - Feb 23 with 2874 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 16:56 - Feb 23 by LankHenners |
In what way?
We adapt all the time - don't know why this season people think we play a very rigid system and are tactically inflexible when in reality it's completely the opposite.
If anything it's almost the opposite in that we've struggled to find the balance between 'being ourselves' and keeping the other team out, but that's largely down to the quality of the opposition.
It's the classic football fan reaction of just thinking that *something else* would have worked better than whatever did happen and they'll always be right in their own mind about it. |
We adapted from our last game against Villa to this game against Spurs. We've adapted quite a bit this season, I don't think that's our main problem. | |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 17:14 - Feb 23 with 2838 views | JackNorthStand |
Maybe this is a bit old school, out of fashion or lower league… but why not bring Hirst on alongside Delap when needing a goal instead of switching them like for like? I find it baffling. But then again, I am not a premier league football manager. | | | |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 17:16 - Feb 23 with 2817 views | Swansea_Blue |
The right side has been a bit of a continuous issue hasn’t it? Does anyone know if Townsend has played on that side at all/much? He’s defensively sound and knows the role. |  |
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| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 17:19 - Feb 23 with 2771 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone think he should adapt a bit? on 17:16 - Feb 23 by Swansea_Blue |
The right side has been a bit of a continuous issue hasn’t it? Does anyone know if Townsend has played on that side at all/much? He’s defensively sound and knows the role. |
I don't think he's ever played there and as a left footer, I'm not sure he'd be comfortable there. We've not been helped by season ending injuries to Ogbene and Burns, both of whom can get up and down that flank to support the full back while also giving us an attacking outlet. Johnson just hasn't looked up to it despite having good Prem experience and Godfrey looks hopeless thus far, so we've been very reliant on Axel who is one of the unluckiest men in football. | |
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