Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Agree with you entirely. In an ideal world, I'd like to see us having 50% plus possession every week, but it's not going to happen with this squad. There has been plenty of proof though in the last few years that you don't need to be dominating possession every game to win trophies, but there surely can't have been many teams that have won automatic promotion to the Premier League that valued possession less than us.
On that point, I'm glad to see one or two others on here sharing my complete bafflement at the tactic when we have possession about fifty yards from our opponent's goal of playing the ball back to Etheridge, whose kicking is the only aspect of his game that gets consistently criticised on here, who wellies it upfield and in nine cases out of ten puts the opposition back in possession with them having done little or nothing to win it back - if someone has an idea of what the thinking is behind this "tactic", I'd be fascinated to read it.
One other thing, I think you mean John Beck with Cambridge United, not John Still.