There can be no messing from this game onwards. No place to hide for any player.
Get back to a stable set up and rebuild from it. We have to start with 442, we have to put square pegs in square holes. Can this be done with our squad ? Yes it can. Other clubs play 17 or 18 year olds because they have to, we have to. For one Charlie Barks CB would be fine alongside Manny for a few games while the others realise the team doesn’t revolve round them.
But the priority is getting the basics right. Trap a ball / Control the ball / Pass the ball with pace. Then players give options by movement off the ball.
Criticise players when they don’t perform in their OWN positions.
Both Rowe and Butroid are fit and have been for the last month. So why aren’t we trying to settle at least one line. That line is in a 4 4 2. I fully endorse a youth policy. But they have to be of a good standard and I don’t believe some of these are coping well with full time coaching and expectations.
We are at it again squares in round holes and opponents do their homework and know where a weakness may be.
Management on-field 0 don’t deserve a mark if you don’t put a RB where a RB should be.
Management off-field 0 – their master plan on recruitment, about as confused as you can get.
how to go from league 1 playoff contenders to National League Premier League in 3 seasons.
Also having Matt Gilks, Conor Townsend, Murray Wallace, Duane Holmes, Hakeeb Adelakon, Paddy Madden, Neil Bishop and Josh Morris at that time and look what we have now, I don’t think I have seen us have a close season before were I haven’t heard of any of the new players before.
The rot started with the departure of Paddy Madden. The other were destined for higher divisions. Our signings now resemble the plan of ‘Nearly Headless Nick’.
