| the false narrative of too many changes 17:35 - Dec 19 with 353 views | positivity |
when we've made 5-9 changes, we average 2 points per game
when we've made 0-4 changes, we average 1.36 ppg
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| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:24 - Dec 19 with 230 views | EddyJ |
Should be remembered that if you play your first team in match 1, and make 5 changes in match 2, you need to make 5 more changes in match 3 to play your first team again.
Number of changes isn't the issue. Not playing our best team is the issue. | | | |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:38 - Dec 19 with 193 views | positivity |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:24 - Dec 19 by EddyJ |
Should be remembered that if you play your first team in match 1, and make 5 changes in match 2, you need to make 5 more changes in match 3 to play your first team again.
Number of changes isn't the issue. Not playing our best team is the issue. |
what's our best team though? combination of skill, form, fitness level, suitability for opposition?
in which case, it'll change game to game | |
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| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:50 - Dec 19 with 168 views | EddyJ |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:38 - Dec 19 by positivity |
what's our best team though? combination of skill, form, fitness level, suitability for opposition?
in which case, it'll change game to game |
I think we can all agree that any team featuring Akpom and/or McAteer is not our first team.
McKenna seems to be coalescing around a first XI of:
Walton
Furlong
O'Shea
Kipre
Davis
Matisuwa
Taylor
Walle-Egeli
Nunez
Philogene
Hirst
While not neccesarily our best 11 players, that team has looked the most cohesive we have fielded. [Post edited 19 Dec 19:52]
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| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:06 - Dec 19 with 125 views | bluefunk |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 19:50 - Dec 19 by EddyJ |
I think we can all agree that any team featuring Akpom and/or McAteer is not our first team.
McKenna seems to be coalescing around a first XI of:
Walton
Furlong
O'Shea
Kipre
Davis
Matisuwa
Taylor
Walle-Egeli
Nunez
Philogene
Hirst
While not neccesarily our best 11 players, that team has looked the most cohesive we have fielded. [Post edited 19 Dec 19:52]
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And yet, 10 of that “best eleven” were dismal against Leicester. It’s almost like football is a game that doesn’t lend itself to simplistic theories about how to manage. |  | | |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:21 - Dec 19 with 94 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:06 - Dec 19 by bluefunk |
And yet, 10 of that “best eleven” were dismal against Leicester. It’s almost like football is a game that doesn’t lend itself to simplistic theories about how to manage. |
Yep, that 11 lost to Oxford and beat Cov |  |
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| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:32 - Dec 19 with 82 views | EddyJ |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:06 - Dec 19 by bluefunk |
And yet, 10 of that “best eleven” were dismal against Leicester. It’s almost like football is a game that doesn’t lend itself to simplistic theories about how to manage. |
We've looked like a team of strangers all season. Through October and November, we were fielding wildly different teams each game, often dropping/resting players that had done well in the previous match.
The Coventry/Stoke games were the first where we were starting to look cohesive. That coincided with us having a more settled team. Doesn't mean that settled team is going to win every week. Doesn't mean they are the finished article yet. Doesn't mean the team won't evolve, especially with the January transfer window coming up. But if we stick with roughly that team for a period of time, we are going to pick up more points than if we keep changing it.
We really missed Walle-Egeli against Leicester. He had contributed 2 important goals in our previous 3 games. He had often been our biggest attacking threat in those games. He also much more of a team player than any of our other attackers, bar Nunez. Clarke was powder-puff, slow and selfish.
Its almost like football is a simple game, but people want to make it seem complicated by taking one data point out of context. | | | |
| the false narrative of too many changes on 20:43 - Dec 19 with 68 views | Chris_ITFC |
That’s a tad too basic for me, and rather misses the point - sorry!
What would have happened if we’d picked a settled XI each week, building relationships, confidence and cohesion? That’s the comparison, for better or worse. |  |
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