| Amazing what happens when you play your best players 17:22 - Jan 11 with 1423 views | clive_baker |
And in their actual positions isn’t it? Accrington were absolutely awful, but today was chalk & cheese compared with the 1 up front horror show at their place in October.
Let’s hope this is the start of a period of continuity now by way of shape and team selection. We absolutely need to stick with a back 3 with wingbacks, Judge in the number 10 role and a front 2. KVY coming back in for Edwards and an upgrade on Wilson (lad from Everton perhaps) and we’ll be in a good spot. No cup distractions now, just 20 league games and 60 points to play for to get us back up to the Championship. A month today we’ll be playing Wimbledon away, after which we’ll have 13 games left and 9 of them at Portman Road. We’ve potentially got an excellent run in, so hopefully Lambert learns the lessons of the last dire couple of months and we can get going again. Good signs today. |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:31 - Jan 11 with 1353 views | Herbivore |
This is about our second win of the season playing three at the back. It was less about the formation and more about the tempo and intent. Jackson was bang up for it today and kept their defence occupied. Midfield had a bit more urgency. Chambers had his best game in ages. Let's hope this is actually the start of some decent consecutive performances rather than another promising glimpse. |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:45 - Jan 11 with 1280 views | Darth_Koont |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:31 - Jan 11 by Herbivore |
This is about our second win of the season playing three at the back. It was less about the formation and more about the tempo and intent. Jackson was bang up for it today and kept their defence occupied. Midfield had a bit more urgency. Chambers had his best game in ages. Let's hope this is actually the start of some decent consecutive performances rather than another promising glimpse. |
True, but it has the advantage of letting Garbutt come forward and it suits Edwards too. Added to which Judge can be much more of a free man in midfield rather than us losing our shape when he wanders away from the flanks.
We can reappraise when KVY is fit and Bishop is up to speed but really think we should stick with this for a bit now. |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:48 - Jan 11 with 1262 views | Herbivore |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:45 - Jan 11 by Darth_Koont |
True, but it has the advantage of letting Garbutt come forward and it suits Edwards too. Added to which Judge can be much more of a free man in midfield rather than us losing our shape when he wanders away from the flanks.
We can reappraise when KVY is fit and Bishop is up to speed but really think we should stick with this for a bit now. |
I'm not convinced by it, unless we get a ball playing left sided CB which we might in Gibson. I think a 4-3-3 would suit us better. | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:51 - Jan 11 with 1251 views | clive_baker |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:31 - Jan 11 by Herbivore |
This is about our second win of the season playing three at the back. It was less about the formation and more about the tempo and intent. Jackson was bang up for it today and kept their defence occupied. Midfield had a bit more urgency. Chambers had his best game in ages. Let's hope this is actually the start of some decent consecutive performances rather than another promising glimpse. |
This formation allows us to do that IMO. Chambers had the licence to push on because he had Wilson and Woolfy alongside him. Against Lincoln where we played a back 4 we were occupied and on the back foot for the most part, and they could've scored 8. Having an extra body in the middle also allows Judge and Huws to play in their preferred position, with the luxury of Downes in their too offering protection. Garbutt is a good attacking threat too, which that role gives him the licence to do. With the personnel we have at our disposal it's firmly the right approach for me. Tuesday will be very telling, not so much in terms of the result, but if we're making 5 changes and back to 4-4-2 then Lambert really has lost the plot. | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:53 - Jan 11 with 1226 views | Darth_Koont |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:48 - Jan 11 by Herbivore |
I'm not convinced by it, unless we get a ball playing left sided CB which we might in Gibson. I think a 4-3-3 would suit us better. |
Ultimately, yes. But I don’t really fancy our current fullbacks and when Garbutt gets forward we look a lot better. | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 19:06 - Jan 11 with 1076 views | Kieran_Knows |
I thought Wimbledon were by far and away going to be the worst team I saw down PR this season, but wow Accrington were even more woeful than them. How we lost to them earlier in the year is a miracle. |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 19:14 - Jan 11 with 1044 views | Herbivore |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:51 - Jan 11 by clive_baker |
This formation allows us to do that IMO. Chambers had the licence to push on because he had Wilson and Woolfy alongside him. Against Lincoln where we played a back 4 we were occupied and on the back foot for the most part, and they could've scored 8. Having an extra body in the middle also allows Judge and Huws to play in their preferred position, with the luxury of Downes in their too offering protection. Garbutt is a good attacking threat too, which that role gives him the licence to do. With the personnel we have at our disposal it's firmly the right approach for me. Tuesday will be very telling, not so much in terms of the result, but if we're making 5 changes and back to 4-4-2 then Lambert really has lost the plot. |
Fair enough, agree to disagree on the formation. | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 19:27 - Jan 11 with 1006 views | backwaywhen |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 19:06 - Jan 11 by Kieran_Knows |
I thought Wimbledon were by far and away going to be the worst team I saw down PR this season, but wow Accrington were even more woeful than them. How we lost to them earlier in the year is a miracle. |
Their last 7 ...... won 4 drawn 2 lost 1 . |  | | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 20:43 - Jan 11 with 911 views | itfcjoe |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 17:51 - Jan 11 by clive_baker |
This formation allows us to do that IMO. Chambers had the licence to push on because he had Wilson and Woolfy alongside him. Against Lincoln where we played a back 4 we were occupied and on the back foot for the most part, and they could've scored 8. Having an extra body in the middle also allows Judge and Huws to play in their preferred position, with the luxury of Downes in their too offering protection. Garbutt is a good attacking threat too, which that role gives him the licence to do. With the personnel we have at our disposal it's firmly the right approach for me. Tuesday will be very telling, not so much in terms of the result, but if we're making 5 changes and back to 4-4-2 then Lambert really has lost the plot. |
I'm still a 433 man, but hard to argue with how today let us play and if we are going to stick to something then this suits me. Kenlock as a left sided CB would be fine as one of the back up spots in reality |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 20:44 - Jan 11 with 907 views | itfcjoe |
| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 19:06 - Jan 11 by Kieran_Knows |
I thought Wimbledon were by far and away going to be the worst team I saw down PR this season, but wow Accrington were even more woeful than them. How we lost to them earlier in the year is a miracle. |
We made them look poor by totally over powering them and played at a tempo they couldn't live with.
They aren't a woeful side, we were just very good | |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 21:26 - Jan 11 with 837 views | 3_5_2 |
I like 352 and hope we stick to it
I prefer Holy to Norris but that's just me
Think a new left footed CB would work better, moving Wolf to the right of Chambo
With KVY back and Garbutt we have both wide areas sorted, Downes, Huws and Judge as the 3 but plenty of competition / cover there
Up top, Nors / Jackson / Keane plus Sears, plenty of quality there
We have close to 40 professionals which is too many, shed a few / loans etc and we could get the CB we need plus anyone who is better than what we have |  |
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| Amazing what happens when you play your best players on 21:45 - Jan 11 with 786 views | Keaneish |
Fair play to Coleman though. They started with 2 up front, finished with 3 and kept playing out from the back. Plenty of admiration for him. Even when being out classed he tried to rescue something from the game rather than accepting damage limitation. |  |
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