| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today 19:17 - Oct 15 with 2875 views | textbackup |
Harness, really not sure based on last few weeks, running towards goal he’s decent, back to it, frustrating
If our 2 x 10’s aren’t doing it we are very much a pass pass pass pass team without a final product.
Need to stop this waiting until the second half to play too, not a great look. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 19:21 - Oct 15 with 2603 views | FrimleyBlue |
The more games we play regardless of result. The more that the signings of some don't quite seem to match what we try to do with the ball.
Ladapo isn't able to use his power as in previous years as he's facing away from goal more than towards it.
JJ.. I still don't actually know what sort of player he us other than a runner.
I guess it's all about potential.. but I don't see any of them being good enough at champ level with us if we get there. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 20:18 - Oct 15 with 2483 views | Garv |
Wonder if it's worth adding a striker and sacrificing one of the 10s sometimes, like when we had Bonne and Norwood up front.
I dare say Norwood would have poached a goal if he was playing up front in that last 10 minutes. |  |
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| I actually think Harness was far more effective then Chaplin… on 20:30 - Oct 15 with 2471 views | unstableblue |
… and carved out chances
He just didn’t have his shooting boots on.
I would have Harness in my staring 11 week in week out and give him those run of starts…
The issue was us not breaking the lines and pulling defenders off Chaplin and Harness, Ladapo getting no service, and Evans was too deep to distribute well.
If Burns was playing as well as Davis, we’d also carry far far more threat.
Donacien had a rare bad day at the office and that made our right side completely ineffective |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 20:38 - Oct 15 with 2445 views | ArnieM |
The difference in the second half was that we brought players on that ran at defenders causing them to commit and our subs had pace. We need some of this throughout the whole game not just the last 20mins - every game. Oh s as bf taking out chdd as beds might help out chase. It’s been the same all season. This is more of an observation, and something we need to change or adapt to.
I have faith in our club to push on in the second half of the season , and I fully expect another striker to come in. We don’t batter defenders like we should , and try more often than not to outwit them in a game played almost like Dutch teams would play : almost like a game of chess. The excitement tends to come when we ramp up the pace and become more direct in our play over the last 20mins. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 21:59 - Oct 15 with 2264 views | textbackup |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 20:18 - Oct 15 by Garv |
Wonder if it's worth adding a striker and sacrificing one of the 10s sometimes, like when we had Bonne and Norwood up front.
I dare say Norwood would have poached a goal if he was playing up front in that last 10 minutes. |
No he wouldn’t.
Pinning for him everytime we don’t score isn’t the one | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 22:03 - Oct 15 with 2251 views | pointofblue |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 21:59 - Oct 15 by textbackup |
No he wouldn’t.
Pinning for him everytime we don’t score isn’t the one |
But I do think we should look to sacrifice a number ten and put two up front at times. |  |
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| I actually think Harness was far more effective then Chaplin… on 22:35 - Oct 15 with 2174 views | Dubtractor |
| I actually think Harness was far more effective then Chaplin… on 20:30 - Oct 15 by unstableblue |
… and carved out chances
He just didn’t have his shooting boots on.
I would have Harness in my staring 11 week in week out and give him those run of starts…
The issue was us not breaking the lines and pulling defenders off Chaplin and Harness, Ladapo getting no service, and Evans was too deep to distribute well.
If Burns was playing as well as Davis, we’d also carry far far more threat.
Donacien had a rare bad day at the office and that made our right side completely ineffective |
Donacien is mr dependable usually, but it was definitely an off day for him today, first half especially. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 22:35 - Oct 15 with 2169 views | textbackup |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 22:03 - Oct 15 by pointofblue |
But I do think we should look to sacrifice a number ten and put two up front at times. |
That we do.
I’ve not seen a second half like today before. So many shots, so much possession, but at no point didn’t we look as though we’d score.
2/3 of our attacking players mikes off it. I’m putting it down to just one of them things.
But that first half smelt of morcambe away. We don’t just deserve a goal and to win, need to be smarter and quicker | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 22:58 - Oct 15 with 2087 views | DinnernotTea |
On Friday -
Jackson in for Burns
Edwards in for Harness | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 23:54 - Oct 15 with 1979 views | Garv |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 21:59 - Oct 15 by textbackup |
No he wouldn’t.
Pinning for him everytime we don’t score isn’t the one |
That's the first game we haven't scored in, so there actually hasn't been much (any) pining. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 02:51 - Oct 16 with 1854 views | bournemouthblue |
We definitely need a plan B if teams stop our system working
You could go 3412 rather than 3421 but that probably needs a big man pacey man combination potentially?
Today was crying out for someone to be dropping deep and either flicking on or helping balls around the defender, whilst runners went ahead
We did it once with Ladapo and it almost worked but never did it again
Chaplin was particularly guilty of this, passing back when he was in a position to turn and go |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 08:44 - Oct 16 with 1672 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 20:38 - Oct 15 by ArnieM |
The difference in the second half was that we brought players on that ran at defenders causing them to commit and our subs had pace. We need some of this throughout the whole game not just the last 20mins - every game. Oh s as bf taking out chdd as beds might help out chase. It’s been the same all season. This is more of an observation, and something we need to change or adapt to.
I have faith in our club to push on in the second half of the season , and I fully expect another striker to come in. We don’t batter defenders like we should , and try more often than not to outwit them in a game played almost like Dutch teams would play : almost like a game of chess. The excitement tends to come when we ramp up the pace and become more direct in our play over the last 20mins. |
Do we over rely of the 5 subs? |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:10 - Oct 16 with 1623 views | LankHenners |
Yeah thought the bigger problem than needing another striker was Chaplin and Harness having off days and not being creative enough around the edge of their box.
Harness in particular very wasteful - the one where he took a shot first time on his left and skied it when he had time for a quick touch to set then shoot from about 8 yards was really poor I thought. Then had one where it fell nicely to hit first time on the edge of the box but took a touch and Lincoln threw about 3 players in the way. Has had some good clinical finishes this season but also wasted a few good opportunities.
The one player I thought we really could have done with was Celina. You know he would have been trying little clipped balls, taking on shots, dribbling around them to move them out of position etc. Shame we couldn’t get that one done. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:19 - Oct 16 with 1596 views | Dyland |
Harness and Chappers seem to be looking for their mojos.
Don’t think there’s a worrying theme here though, except as loads have said including McK we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point.
One of those days innit. A mixture of bad luck and too many under par performances, and Lincoln successfully doing what they came to do.
The ref was very odd…. wasn’t watching things a lot of the time.. he was acting like he was stoned. And irritatingly wasted time talking to players about time wasting.
EDIT: we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point... meaning the first 25/30 minutes be far better than we sometimes are [Post edited 16 Oct 2022 12:09]
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:47 - Oct 16 with 1515 views | Steve_M |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:19 - Oct 16 by Dyland |
Harness and Chappers seem to be looking for their mojos.
Don’t think there’s a worrying theme here though, except as loads have said including McK we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point.
One of those days innit. A mixture of bad luck and too many under par performances, and Lincoln successfully doing what they came to do.
The ref was very odd…. wasn’t watching things a lot of the time.. he was acting like he was stoned. And irritatingly wasted time talking to players about time wasting.
EDIT: we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point... meaning the first 25/30 minutes be far better than we sometimes are [Post edited 16 Oct 2022 12:09]
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Yes, other than those mentioned already Evans wasn’t on it yesterday either. We took far too long to get going, not enough in the first hour and then made so many bad choices after that (the Harness one that Henners described in particular). Another day we still get at last a draw or if the same performance but there are a so many things we have done much better this season.
On the ref, it wasn’t that he got much wrong - non-corner late on aside - but he booked Evans for the first foul we made and just accepted similar fouls, dissent and time-wasting from Lincoln without a card. Just odd and made the day even more frustrating. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:52 - Oct 16 with 1493 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 02:51 - Oct 16 by bournemouthblue |
We definitely need a plan B if teams stop our system working
You could go 3412 rather than 3421 but that probably needs a big man pacey man combination potentially?
Today was crying out for someone to be dropping deep and either flicking on or helping balls around the defender, whilst runners went ahead
We did it once with Ladapo and it almost worked but never did it again
Chaplin was particularly guilty of this, passing back when he was in a position to turn and go |
I lost count of the times a player could have turned and driven forward into space but it wasn't only Chaplin. |  |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:56 - Oct 16 with 1471 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:19 - Oct 16 by Dyland |
Harness and Chappers seem to be looking for their mojos.
Don’t think there’s a worrying theme here though, except as loads have said including McK we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point.
One of those days innit. A mixture of bad luck and too many under par performances, and Lincoln successfully doing what they came to do.
The ref was very odd…. wasn’t watching things a lot of the time.. he was acting like he was stoned. And irritatingly wasted time talking to players about time wasting.
EDIT: we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point... meaning the first 25/30 minutes be far better than we sometimes are [Post edited 16 Oct 2022 12:09]
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Missed heaps by following the ball I suspect. Actually though having just remembered the X2 restart with their keeper you are probably correct to say he was stoned. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 10:06 - Oct 16 with 1454 views | LankHenners |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:47 - Oct 16 by Steve_M |
Yes, other than those mentioned already Evans wasn’t on it yesterday either. We took far too long to get going, not enough in the first hour and then made so many bad choices after that (the Harness one that Henners described in particular). Another day we still get at last a draw or if the same performance but there are a so many things we have done much better this season.
On the ref, it wasn’t that he got much wrong - non-corner late on aside - but he booked Evans for the first foul we made and just accepted similar fouls, dissent and time-wasting from Lincoln without a card. Just odd and made the day even more frustrating. |
Glad someone else has the same opinion on Evans. Was surprised to see him get so much praise from the EADT in particular afterwards.
He was given free reign to have a lot of the ball but I thought his use of it was as poor as it’s been in a while. Too slow to move it forwards at times and several of his cross field sweeps were under hit. A bit too keen to get on it as well, thought he’d have been better off letting Woolfenden carry it forwards as when he did that it seemed to open a bit more space. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 10:14 - Oct 16 with 1433 views | ArnieM |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 08:44 - Oct 16 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Do we over rely of the 5 subs? |
We have the players to unlock things , and McKenna’s tactic is clearly to use them against a tiring defence. This to date has appeared to work. But it’s a tactic that is very well known. I don’t think we over rely on the 5 subs, more than we over rely on the use of them in the last 20 mins of a game. You have to wonder what would have happened had they been brought on at say half time for a change.
That aside, we do, in my humble opinion, need to stamp out these soft goals to opponents who are often not even in the game, when they are gifted these soft chances. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 10:39 - Oct 16 with 1399 views | Steve_M |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 10:06 - Oct 16 by LankHenners |
Glad someone else has the same opinion on Evans. Was surprised to see him get so much praise from the EADT in particular afterwards.
He was given free reign to have a lot of the ball but I thought his use of it was as poor as it’s been in a while. Too slow to move it forwards at times and several of his cross field sweeps were under hit. A bit too keen to get on it as well, thought he’d have been better off letting Woolfenden carry it forwards as when he did that it seemed to open a bit more space. |
The ball back to Evans becomes the default option too often, his crossing is decent so is fine to use that but we played through him far too much yesterday. As you say, his use is the ball want good enough and was well below that at the start of the season.
The cross-field ball behind Davis that lead to the corner and then their goal was particularly poor. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 11:48 - Oct 16 with 1296 views | BudapestByBlimp |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:19 - Oct 16 by Dyland |
Harness and Chappers seem to be looking for their mojos.
Don’t think there’s a worrying theme here though, except as loads have said including McK we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point.
One of those days innit. A mixture of bad luck and too many under par performances, and Lincoln successfully doing what they came to do.
The ref was very odd…. wasn’t watching things a lot of the time.. he was acting like he was stoned. And irritatingly wasted time talking to players about time wasting.
EDIT: we have to come out firing better against teams looking for a point... meaning the first 25/30 minutes be far better than we sometimes are [Post edited 16 Oct 2022 12:09]
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Morecambe and Lincoln's tactics were to press hard and quick on Harness and Chaplin stopping most of our creative play. It was noticeable they were only able to sustain this for 35 minutes in both games and then we started to get a foot-hold. Even then most of our joy came from wide areas. I think we'll see most lower teams employing this against us now as it makes it very hard for us to have a quick start which kills off the poorer teams.
I think Chaplin in particular struggles a bit when pressed, his first touch is similar to Alan Judge's where the ball will often bobble-up. Give him a yard or two of space and he's great.
McKenna addressed that by getting our defenders to push up and Morsy play much higher helping to maintain our high press. I think yesterday was a combination of being tactically out-manoeuvred initially, followed by determined defending by Lincoln, poor finishing and of course a little lack of luck. We really did dominate 60 minutes yesterday and had plenty of shots, most times we win that game. |  | | |
| Either that or tripping on 12:11 - Oct 16 with 1251 views | Dyland |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:56 - Oct 16 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Missed heaps by following the ball I suspect. Actually though having just remembered the X2 restart with their keeper you are probably correct to say he was stoned. |
nfft | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 12:12 - Oct 16 with 1250 views | Dyland |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 09:47 - Oct 16 by Steve_M |
Yes, other than those mentioned already Evans wasn’t on it yesterday either. We took far too long to get going, not enough in the first hour and then made so many bad choices after that (the Harness one that Henners described in particular). Another day we still get at last a draw or if the same performance but there are a so many things we have done much better this season.
On the ref, it wasn’t that he got much wrong - non-corner late on aside - but he booked Evans for the first foul we made and just accepted similar fouls, dissent and time-wasting from Lincoln without a card. Just odd and made the day even more frustrating. |
I though the Evans card was fair enough, pretty much a pro foul non? But the lack of cards elsewhere I agree made it annoying. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 12:14 - Oct 16 with 1248 views | Dyland |
| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 10:06 - Oct 16 by LankHenners |
Glad someone else has the same opinion on Evans. Was surprised to see him get so much praise from the EADT in particular afterwards.
He was given free reign to have a lot of the ball but I thought his use of it was as poor as it’s been in a while. Too slow to move it forwards at times and several of his cross field sweeps were under hit. A bit too keen to get on it as well, thought he’d have been better off letting Woolfenden carry it forwards as when he did that it seemed to open a bit more space. |
Could say similar for Morsy... both of them were too slow moving the ball... maybe caused in part by lack of space given to the no 10s. Ladapo was alright but also looked leggy. Just one of those days innit. How we come back on Friday will be interesting, could be a cracking game under the lights. | |
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| Jackson was actually by far our biggest threat today on 13:29 - Oct 16 with 1144 views | Bobsthename |
Thought Chaplin was off against Morcombe and off again yesterday i’m thinking we could of done with a Carrol type striker good in the air and knows where the net is we need a plan B when we can’t break teams down .
Maybe that was in Mckenna s mind when we signed Ahadme but injury put pay to that i say invest heavily in a striker loan or permanently. | | | |
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