If you play Winnall up front with a strike partner; he will in all probability get 20 goals a season. If you play Winnall up front on his own; he will score less. If you play Winnall up front on his own, you need the midfielders to consistently chip in with goals to compensate for the Winnall goals sacrificed. If your midfielders fail to consistently chip in with goals, you have sacrificed Winnalls goals for no reason. If a goalkeeper makes a at least one mistake a game, which costs a goal, you need to score at least 2 goals to win the game. If you play three midfielders in the middle when you actually only need two; you have to sacrifice a player elsewhere. If you sign a load of loan players, an never use them, you wasted your loans. If you sign a load of loan players, and never use them, you are denying your own, younger players an opportunity. If you sign a load of loan players and never use them, your club looks like a bit of a waste of time for loanees. If you consistently dominate games but fail to score, it isn't working. If you put around 15 top quality balls into the box, you need at least a couple of players in the box to get on the end of them. Lee, please stop this absolute nonsense. Get Davies back in goal. Pick your best 4 defenders, and stick with them. Pick 4 midfielders. Play someone alongside Winnall. Cancel the pointless loans and bring players in that fit the system, not players that we have to change the system to accommodate. It's league One, not La Liga. Our biggest assett is a 20 goal a season striker. Show me a team that doesn't want one of those. Our biggest asset is not our plethora of midfielders. Build your team around Winnall's strengths, and we win far more than we lose. Totally obvious, utterly simple.
you'll be getting banned off here for talking common sense, but LJ won't change anything he's oblivious to our downfalls
On the basis that he has already done so, (23 for S****horpe) and came fairly close last season, (13) in spite of being out/ playing with an injury for a good chunk of the season. If he stayed fit and played the whole season with someone alongside, I think it's a reasonable assumption. On what basis do you make the judgement that Bobby Hassell would make a good manager; yet Neil Redfearn won't?
Well said. I know nowt about tactics but I reckon by keeping it simple on the lines you have outlined we would be higher up in he league than we currently are. You can overthink things. We actually have two 20 goal a season strikers so I'd be playing them both and letting the opposition worry about that.
I don't think the issue is just playing one up front. Many modern teams do this and win. Shelf Utd fans have been moaning that they shouldn't be playing two up front earlier in the season. I think he could try two but who do you leave out. For me has to be Harris. However the problem we have isn't just one up front, its how quickly we can move the ball forward, get midfield up to support. I don't mean hoof it, but we seem happy to stand still to deliver a 30 yard ball than carry it and move it quickly. Last few games i don't think we have been negative, just far far too slow in executing the plan, letting teams get organised behind the ball. We had a lot of attacking pressure vs Donnie and Crewe, much of which came to nothing or was easily cleared. When we did get a chance we missed horribly a la Sams strike. I agree football is simple but for me our plan isn't anything complicated, we just aren't carrying it out with the right execution and tempo.
I doubt that anyone has ever been banned from this BBS just for "talking common sense"... Great post fired, by the way.
As most have commented an excellent post fired The only addition to it I can make would be that if we are to play 2 up front with 3 (central) midfielders then we have no alternative but to play 3-5-2 - I think we have the 2 strikers 3 central defenders and 3 midfielders I think Wabara can play RWB nor so sure about young Smithy playing LWB though
