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If they’re not a left winger or a right back he’s not really interested.
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It should have been 4-3-3 Rene as we have 5 or 6 wingers.
Hang on they all want to play on the left.
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But if we get any kind of a win or even a draw Iron-Awe coming on here to scold you naughty Butler out boys is a banker.
Well seeing as I appear to be living in several posters heads rent free this gives me options when to mention it again, thanks for your paranoia guys
We’re extracting the urine I-A.
Feck promotion let’s set a record for the most left wingers and right backs in a squad.
Together with either of the chuckle brothers surely we can field 10 from those positions by now.Still pleased to have him back. He’s probably the best of the bunch. Does he know he’ll be playing wing back?
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The defence made 2 schoolboy errors.
They allowed a long ball from the keeper to run through unchallenged into a scoring position. You would get a bollocking for that in the lower reaches of Sunday League.They also allowed attackers to take 20 yard pot shots without a hint of a challenge. This one they repeated 4 or 5 times.
Apart from those fundamentals we probably just about matched them.
At the heart of both of these issues was an “after you Claude” mentality which seemed to affect the back 5 (Evans apart) and Richards and Rowley.
Coaching/tactical issue but quite common at our level when teams play 5 at the back without being properly drilled and prepared to play it properly. Even at higher levels the same thing cost Amorim his job at Manure. The same players sure looked a lot better when they switched to a system they were comfortable with.
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Seems like we were mighty unlucky not to win against Carlisle, an xG of 4.48 normally sees you win.(Against Carlisle’s 3.93)
Evans wins 11 out of 12 Ariel duels, Barrow’s was a standout. Jones 8 saves from 12 shots.
And Their goalie basically played a blinder.
Would seem best to stick with Ironawe’s we’re gonna score more goals than you and all will be well.
Obviously the game that I watched on Da Zone was an AI generated spoof.
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Iron-Awe pretends he doesn’t care.
PD pretends he does.
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Lewis Jones?
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Like every other season we have to settle for what we get.
What we’ll get is whatever Butler and his boys can give us. Based on the last 60 odd years I’ll be there whatever and support the team fully while the effort is there. Haven’t seen any lack of effort yet this season.I will come on here and give my opinions when I think we do the wrong things. In my view most of this seasons problems lie with the coaching team rather than the players. I don’t want Butler out. I just want him to make better decisions.
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Unless there is a significant and fairly rapid improvement we are going to be in a relegation battle.
It’s been quite a few seasons since we’ve done mid table mediocrity.
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I’m not putting it forward as an ideal solution Awaywego.
That would have been to skip a random right back and/or left winger and sign a goalkeeper whose had at least 2 seasons as a first choice at this level or better. Whilst letting go of one of our current 2.
None of our 4 keepers from last season have ever achieved that.
Just saying we currently have a choice of 2 and the guy that got first dibs isn’t working out too well.
Seen Campbell play once albeit against Stoke kids and a couple of 45’s pre season.
Didn’t look a world beater but played confidently.
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Scunthorpe 12 shots 7 on target
Carlisle ( bigger club, bigger budget, better players, better manager )
24 shots 12 on target.Rene it’s not rocket science it’s football mate.
Allowing 24 shots and 12 on target is nothing to do with budgets.
It’s down to poor defensive and midfield organisation.
It’s down to players being uncomfortable in or failing to understand their roles.
It’s about being more concerned about shape without the ball rather than spotting danger and closing it down.A makeshift Villa team with a fraction of the budget hardly allowed the best team in the Premier League a shot last night.
Different levels of player but the basics of football don’t change.
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But for some poor finishing even Solihull should have had 2 or 3.
It’s an old hobby horse of mine but trying to play 5 at the back without players suited to the formation is ridiculous.
The centre backs play “after you Claude” except Evans who gets understandably frustrated with the lack of closing down in front of him so ends up charging out of position committing fouls and risking cards.
Rowley and Richards are both naturally space coverers rather than tacklers and don’t get me started on the lack of any genuine wing backs.We need 2 centre backs playing their natural games in their natural positions. Either play JB with Evans or if he really can’t hack it as Andy seems to believe then get someone in that can.
Not a fan of 4-4-2 generally but it does give a defensive solidity and we need to stop teams having between 5 and 10 good chances in a game. Jones makes occasional good saves but if he worries the defenders as much as he worries the crowd then it’s time to give Campbell half a dozen games to see what he can do. If he hasn’t improved since early last season then a proper goalkeeper needs to be found.
This is already not about catching up the play off contenders. It’s about getting away from and staying away from the bottom 4.
As an example of what we could do to stop the rot:
Campbell
Ogle JB Evans Horton
Jones Richards Rowley Butterfield
Gale HoweJones seems to have the discipline to do the defensive midfield stuff and the energy to still offer a threat.
Butterfield can give us an hour then Beestin can come on fresh.
Howe and Gale have the energy to still be a threat with limited support.
Stop the bleeding for 6 or 8 games and if the back 4 settle we can think about going back to 4-3-3 or it’s variations.We’ll do none of this of course because everything’s OK in planet Butler.
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Most optimistic post from Alcy since his return.
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When you start a season with 3 centre backs, one of whom you’re not prepared to play there then you might (do) have a problem.
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No goalie on the bench will upset a few.
Would probably have been on second half.
5 at the back certainly racks up the clean sheets.
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