Hold up everyone. We are all jumping the gun.
Deans was on the wireless today saying it's only 1 game out of 27 so it's no big deal.
Phew, that makes me feel better.
Hold up everyone. We are all jumping the gun.
Deans was on the wireless today saying it's only 1 game out of 27 so it's no big deal.
Phew, that makes me feel better.
Well in the rag today Dutchy has basically said Chillie out and Bridges in with Burns going right. This is a better setup IMO but if Burns and Goodwin play as wide as they did why do we have overlapping fullbacks? Do they need a forward to hold their hand going forward so they don't get lost and are there to offer advice and direction when we loose the ball?
Overlapping fullbacks are fine IF:
1) The defensive midfield actually cover them rather than leaving us exposed
2) The "winger" or whatever you want to call him moves into the channel to offer something other than just someone to applaud if the overlapping back actually gets a cross in.
Apparently in the pre-season the thing we had to work on was getting other players in and around Heskey to offer him support. Now I know Heskey wasn't in the centre Taggart was but did anyone tell the forwards that? They seemed to want to stay as close to Heskey in the stand as they could not play in closer to Taggart!
By the time you get an overlapping back, a winger and an out of position defensive midfielder out wide, if you can manage to drag your number 10 out there as well then you have 4 guys manning the sideline. U12's could defend a cross in that situation.
Apparently the forward third need to "work on their positioning" a bit. WTF have they been doing all pre-season? Working on their ****ing hair dos?
auto response from Deans/GVE
Games 1-9 - "we're only (x) games in, theres no need to panic"
Games 10-18 - "mathematically we're still in it so as long as we make the finals anything is possible"
Games 19-27 - "this gives us a good building block for next season and gives the young blokes some exposure and a full pre-season to develop their game".