Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
Take out Vargas
Move Kanta into midfield
Bring in Crazy George
Move Hoff up field
Roll the dice with Jackson
Play Joey instead of McGree.
Use Pato off the bench.

We will win. Not much to fix.

Team has become defensive and Ernie moving Kanta to CB has signalled vulnerability to oppositions. We got where we are being fearless in attack and not giving a **** about leaking a few goals.

We need to think and play that way again.

Experiments failed Ernie. Lets go back to what was working.
This.
Right now we have NTS throwing long balls at their defenders and Kanta passing to their midfielders. We've seen this before. All of our clearances - fkn all of them!!! - go straight to the opposition, this creates a lot of pressure and frustrates the team.
Vargas is a burden atm: Pato had a positive impact on the game, at least he runs. Sorry for Vargas, but he's not fit and he's still scared: trial games are over, I wouldn't even put him on the bench in the next 2 games. Ernie had to give him a chance and I agree with the experiment, but that's enough thanks.

I don't think we can afford to bring Hoff forward: Vujica is underperforming, we need Geo and Hoff in defence.

The whole tram looked very slow, we were outran in all the areas: we looked like a preseason game - the only explanation could be a heavy load at training in preparation for the finals.