Are our players technically better than 'hoof ball'?

[the other bob wilson]

I reckon players at our level are pretty adaptable. You’ve got to be a decent footballer to survive and be open to different methods of play, different coaching, different systems etc. Players move from club to club and fall in with the way their new club operate quite quickly and by the same token new managers/coaches join a club and implement their way and the players due to the fact that they’ve made it as a pro footballer take things on board. I’m not too worried about our players being so set in Warnock’s ways that they couldn’t adapt to a different mindset & system.

I take the point that they may have been playing to orders to some extent, but that Fulham game makes me wonder if if we are capable of keeping the ball for concerted periods - we don't keep the ball that well when we're defending single goal leads in the closing minutes either.

[Tuerto]

I take the point that they may have been playing to orders to some extent, but that Fulham game makes me wonder if if we are capable of keeping the ball for concerted periods - we don't keep the ball that well when we're defending single goal leads in the closing minutes either.

I think it's a combination of things, players lack of ability, Warnocks refusal to allow players to break shape, players not allowed to make themselves available for the ball, Central defenders told to hit it 40 yards, midfield by passed and only one midfielder allowed to 'play' and only in the final third. God, it's shit.