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I know this has been done to death but there are EIGHT potential senior starters who are out injured. Unreal.
We played a team who played that game far better than Ipswich 7 days ago.
No spark tonight. Maybe playing a containment strategy and hope we can nick one but sadly, couldn't get on the ball enough or press enough. Rowe nor Martin able to effect the game enough but Ipswich are a good well drilled team with a couple of tricky players. We were perhaps too one dimensional especially towards the end when we could have mixed it up a bit with either Agard and or Dodoo but midfield didn't seem to have the energy to press anyway.As said before, I would have glady taken a point but nothing lost, still 8 points difference and we move on.
The goal tonight was a microcosm of why we are going down.Fundamentally we don't operate as a team. We are a rag bag assortment of 11 individuals.For 30 seconds before they scored, we had individuals sprinting out of position to fill gaps, only to leave other gaps that they exploited. Often we make heroic blocks or tackles, but when you are as uncoordinated as that, eventually you get hurt. That's what happened with the goal. They inevitability worked a bit of space for the cross and a bit of space for the header. But the real problem was that we had been pulled ragged for 30 seconds before that.It's the same going forward. Regular punts to an isolated striker with no structure around him. No supporting player. No-one making runs through the line. So that even if he gets a touch, it's not going to fall for us.The attacking throw ins are glaring examples of this lack of structure. We have zero plan. We wait for someone to do something then throw it in their general direction and hope. We have no form if bog standard tactic where a couple of players make zig zag runs to try to work a little space. We look like a disorganised bunch waiting for something to happen. It's been like that now for 12 months. We look like players meeting for the first time. I don't know if it is poor players or poor management - I suspect it's been both.Contrast with Kidderminster on Saturday against West Ham. I assume that man for man their players are not as good as ours (although ...). But they were superbly organised. They defended and attacked as a unit. Players breaking in support when attacking. Players knowing where to slot into defensive gaps when a defender stepped up to pressure the opponents.This should be a bare minimum. We were so much better organised under Moore, for all his faults. It is frankly shocking that we haven't had any semblance of that sort of disciplined structure for 12 months.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on February 09, 2022, 12:03:50 amThe goal tonight was a microcosm of why we are going down.Fundamentally we don't operate as a team. We are a rag bag assortment of 11 individuals.For 30 seconds before they scored, we had individuals sprinting out of position to fill gaps, only to leave other gaps that they exploited. Often we make heroic blocks or tackles, but when you are as uncoordinated as that, eventually you get hurt. That's what happened with the goal. They inevitability worked a bit of space for the cross and a bit of space for the header. But the real problem was that we had been pulled ragged for 30 seconds before that.It's the same going forward. Regular punts to an isolated striker with no structure around him. No supporting player. No-one making runs through the line. So that even if he gets a touch, it's not going to fall for us.The attacking throw ins are glaring examples of this lack of structure. We have zero plan. We wait for someone to do something then throw it in their general direction and hope. We have no form if bog standard tactic where a couple of players make zig zag runs to try to work a little space. We look like a disorganised bunch waiting for something to happen. It's been like that now for 12 months. We look like players meeting for the first time. I don't know if it is poor players or poor management - I suspect it's been both.Contrast with Kidderminster on Saturday against West Ham. I assume that man for man their players are not as good as ours (although ...). But they were superbly organised. They defended and attacked as a unit. Players breaking in support when attacking. Players knowing where to slot into defensive gaps when a defender stepped up to pressure the opponents.This should be a bare minimum. We were so much better organised under Moore, for all his faults. It is frankly shocking that we haven't had any semblance of that sort of disciplined structure for 12 months.The throw ins are awful, aren't they? Very amateur. We did, for once, put one or two decent corners in though, as well as some bad ones. Would have loved to see, I think it was Seaman, try to score direct from one in the second half when their keeper & defence were strolling around in no man's land having a natter. Instead he played it short & then was given it straight back in an obvious offside position, d'oh !!!