Biggest changes needed for next season

[Father Dougal]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

Does this person exist. Do you think the owners of Liverpool, man city and Man utd are football fans.?

Do you think Sheikh Mansour had a poster of Tommy caton or Imre Váradi or his bedroom wall?

Hard not to be jealous of Wrexham at the moment. That's as close to perfect as you can get.

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

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I've had a bit of time to calm down now so I'll try and be a bit more objective.

I didn't think there was any lack of effort yesterday, just a whole lot of misplaced effort. The Jacks are an unusual team, I don't think there's any other team in the championship that plays like they do. I'm guessing the plan would have been to let them have the ball and hit them in the break but that went in the bin once they scored early. That made the lack of any change in the tactics completely bizarre and that's on Morrison. We looked totally unable to coherently press them, our forward players were going in ones and two allowing the Jacks to simply pass around them. What was needed was for the midfield three and the wing backs to push much higher up but that simply didn't happen.

Taking a wider view, I think the biggest concern for next season is that our main attacking threats are Drameh and Doyle both of whom are on loan. For me it makes it all the more imperative that Morrison uses what's left of the season to find a way to accommodate Colwill in the team.

That brings us on to the manager. For me yesterday's defeat is entirely on our poor tactics. However I think at the moment, given the upturn in form we've seen in the last few weeks, I'd be prepared to give him a bit more time. I have genuinely enjoyed quite a few of the games prior to yesterday which I haven't been able to say in a while. I just think he needs to have a bit more belief in our ability to play on the front foot and go out and attack teams.

Good post, agree with it all. We also showed we have limited techinical skills among the players, poor ball control and passing yesterday was akin to what it was under mccarthy.
Spedger

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

There were five players in our starting eleven that were under 21….

Incorrect. Three of the starting eleven were under 21.

[DubaiDai]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

Perhaps Ralls isn't the golden boy Morison thinks he is either.

Not sure it’s Morison. The majority of posters on here think we should build a new team around him.
I am not even sure he should be guaranteed a starting place

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

Without trying to be too reactionary to today's 'effort', it has to be midfield. Wintle looks a class above anyone in the middle at the moment. We don't have a midfield that can control a game.

We don't have a team that tries to control the game. The tactics are simple. Get it into Hugill, or run Davies/Harris in behind. That's it. All our attacks come from that, with the exception of a burst from Drameh. When we defend, we sit back and let teams come onto us. Swansea must have been in shock, we just let them play. They've been dire recently because teams press them from the front. We're going to lose at least 7/8 of our best players in the summer. Next season is going to be hugely difficult. We have to be more adaptable and flexible.

Set pieces need to get fixed, they're embarrassingly bad at the moment. The one thing we could do, we now can't. No matter how crap you are, if you can organise and get good set pieces, you can be a threat all over the pitch and they happen all the time. Nobody is saying play for them but if you don't know what to do when you have them, that's a complete failure of management. It happened time and time again yesterday.

For the rest of the season, he has to get Colwill and Davies as many minutes as possible. They're inexperienced and make mistakes but the only way around that is to play.

Re Ralls, he had a bad game. Everyone did. He's not the first, and he won't be the last. He's done more than enough in the last few months to prove how good he is. Ralls is not the biggest issue we've got, far from it.

[LeningradCowboy]

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Perhaps Ralls isn't the golden boy Morison thinks he is either.

Ralls is still a decent box-to-box midfielder at this level, but he does seem to be allergic to playing against Swansea.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

We need a new wealthy owner who is interested in football

This would be my preference.

[goats]

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Without trying to be too reactionary to today's 'effort', it has to be midfield. Wintle looks a class above anyone in the middle at the moment. We don't have a midfield that can control a game.

I don’t think Ralls is up to it, just let him go. He has the odd good game but just disappears if we come up against anyone with a decent midfield. Wintle could become far better. Hope we keep Doyle too but doubt it…..

[Hilts]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

We need improvements everywhere from goalkeeper to up front.

Hopefully Denham can stake a claim for a place in the coming months but we still need another centre half.

We need to sign some wide players and obviously quality in the middle.

Hugill will go back and Uche so 2 new strikers as well. Its a huge rebuild.

Id still offer Ralls and Smithies contracts but after yesterdays performance if they dontqqq sign this week then withdraw them. We are safe. The out of contract players should be left out and those who will still be here need to be played to show what they can do.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

We need a new wealthy owner who is interested in football

I'd like to sign Haaland, Pedri and Gavi if we're asking for this.

[Lawnmower]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

We need improvements everywhere from goalkeeper to up front.

Hopefully Denham can stake a claim for a place in the coming months but we still need another centre half.

We need to sign some wide players and obviously quality in the middle.

Hugill will go back and Uche so 2 new strikers as well. Its a huge rebuild.

Id still offer Ralls and Smithies contracts but after yesterdays performance if they dontqqq sign this week then withdraw them. We are safe. The out of contract players should be left out and those who will still be here need to be played to show what they can do.

I see a lot of sense in this thread and also some understandable knee-jerk reaction.

In fairness we’ve been doing pretty well until recently and Morison has a new contract so I feel we have to accept that this was a bad day but not over react on one game and back him in the summer.

His recruitment has been fairly decent and gives me at least a bit of hope that he knows what he’s doing.

Bearing in mind we can’t drop all the loan players we need to build the side for the rest of the season around the players who are going to be here

Phillips ( providing he’s not going too).. maybe even the odd run out for Ratcliffe

Ng, McGuinness ( although I’d rest him for a game or 2 for Denham), Nelson ( assuming he’s calmed down now). I’d also give Semenyo and King a few games.

Wintle and Bagan, Davies, Harris and Colwill must all be given a decent run. Don’t know what’s happened to Bowen, but get him in and also give Watters a run when he’s fit.

We need then to establish if any of these youngsters are up to it before working out who needs to come in

Of course if any senior player commits then they can be included in this.

It’s a fairly clean slate for next season- in some ways that’s exciting- as there will be a huge amount of talent out there to choose from. In other ways it’s a worry as I’d we get it wrong it could be another dismal season.

[billy.ronson]

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After Watters “liking” a post by Martin on Saturday evening, I doubt we will see him play again for us …..I can’t believe that would have gone down well with Morison and fans aren’t going to be in a forgiving mood either

[Rjk]

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I’m afraid I have to agree. The game was lost before kick off yesterday, due to the formation, tactics and team picked. He never made any adjustments and when he made the substitutions, he pulled the wrong player. It was like no preparation or study had been done and what the Jacks did and worse were allowed to continue to do was a surprise.

what formation would you have played?

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

I've had a bit of time to calm down now so I'll try and be a bit more objective.

I didn't think there was any lack of effort yesterday, just a whole lot of misplaced effort. The Jacks are an unusual team, I don't think there's any other team in the championship that plays like they do. I'm guessing the plan would have been to let them have the ball and hit them in the break but that went in the bin once they scored early. That made the lack of any change in the tactics completely bizarre and that's on Morrison. We looked totally unable to coherently press them, our forward players were going in ones and two allowing the Jacks to simply pass around them. What was needed was for the midfield three and the wing backs to push much higher up but that simply didn't happen.

Taking a wider view, I think the biggest concern for next season is that our main attacking threats are Drameh and Doyle both of whom are on loan. For me it makes it all the more imperative that Morrison uses what's left of the season to find a way to accommodate Colwill in the team.

That brings us on to the manager. For me yesterday's defeat is entirely on our poor tactics. However I think at the moment, given the upturn in form we've seen in the last few weeks, I'd be prepared to give him a bit more time. I have genuinely enjoyed quite a few of the games prior to yesterday which I haven't been able to say in a while. I just think he needs to have a bit more belief in our ability to play on the front foot and go out and attack teams.

Nicely summarised.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Biggest changes needed for next season

I've had a bit of time to calm down now so I'll try and be a bit more objective.

I didn't think there was any lack of effort yesterday, just a whole lot of misplaced effort. The Jacks are an unusual team, I don't think there's any other team in the championship that plays like they do. I'm guessing the plan would have been to let them have the ball and hit them in the break but that went in the bin once they scored early. That made the lack of any change in the tactics completely bizarre and that's on Morrison. We looked totally unable to coherently press them, our forward players were going in ones and two allowing the Jacks to simply pass around them. What was needed was for the midfield three and the wing backs to push much higher up but that simply didn't happen.

The plan was horseshit. We needed to press them high up the pitch and force mistakes out of them, not let them have the ball and hit them on the break. Given the amount of possession they would have, the pressure on us to make the most out of the rare breaks we might get would be telling. One poor touch, one slightly misplaced pass and the whole tactic was null and void. It's not easy playing on the break, particularly in a high stakes game like the derby.