Random thoughts. If the teamsheet lists three in midfield, then to me we lose. Shore up midfield (a four or a five) and first and foremost, go for a clean sheet and we will have a chance of nicking something. Anything else and I imagine Bristol breaking too fast and too skilfully for us (we all know what Josh Brownhill can do). If that's too random, then Second Thought should go in at Lingfield (4.10). He has won all six of his outings on the all weather and trainer William Haggas is 2 wins from 5 runners (40%) in the last 14 days. 5/4 with Hills and Padddy. Those who are greedy could chance a Trixie (three doubles, one treble, four bets) with Deep Intrigue (2.20 Bath) and Nyaleti (3.55 Newcastle). COYR!!!
Tried that under Heckingbottom and look how it panned out! We need wins, appreciate we aren't going to go gung ho just yet but what if say he did go 4-5-1 and we find ourselves 2 or 3 nil down.. (who'd be a manager TBH? Whatever he does do if we lose the game he will get hammered on here!) If we don't pick up a win in say the next 3 games we may have no option but to gung ho, draws aren't going to be good enough.
In 2 of our previous games under JM we didn't manage to hold out beyond the first 60 seconds. Not sure it's the answer setting up not to loose
yes need to have a go , rather go down swinging, get into them they are not as confident as they were early on in season may as well get down there throats from the off
All this ‘tried it under Heckingbottom’ is irrelevant because he didn’t have McBurnie & Moore. Take Heckingbottom’s tactics of shoring the side up with the added quality of McBurnie in the final third & Moore’s hold up play which Hecky didn’t have & we have a chance. Play 4-3-3 with McBurnie on the left of a 3 & we’ll just get ripped apart like we did against Millwall & the second half against Norwich
Hecky wouldn't have done anything had he got those players at his disposal anyway, we'd still be in pretty much the same position we are now. The player recruitment recently has been woeful but Hecky didn't exactly help matters by telling all the new recruits they were shi*t on that pre season tour, that's a great welcome isn't it.
Moore has a touch like an elephant so not sure his hold up play would have helped the Coward so much It’s as though we’ve never lost under him
I don’t think that happened. I think he told them exactly what they knew which was that they were all young players who were looking to improve & that we were a club that do that & give chances to young players
Coward? Really? Greedy maybe but certainly not coward. If he was a coward he’d have gone January 2017
We were safe in Jan 17 so he couldn’t get a blemish on his record Been touting himself all season - not that I blamed him after all that had gone on but it’s another one where new owners pay for mistakes of the last
You can be the most tactical aware manager/coach in the world but at the end of the day its down to the players.
