A very good passer but way too slow for this team.
Personally think Bacuna makes up for his lack of legs and think the right combo will be Ralls and Bacuna when Ralls fit
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A very good passer but way too slow for this team.
Personally think Bacuna makes up for his lack of legs and think the right combo will be Ralls and Bacuna when Ralls fit
the whole team is slow, but no one is slower than Madine
Pack has given the ball away several times. He's not very good at passing the ball forward and only seems to find his man passing sideways or backwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by WJ99mobile
as does most of the team tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
Slow slow slow slow
He’s not a bad player, but there is so little movement around him. Much better when Ralls plays.
His passing was shite at times today, not the only one mind
Who moves? Glatzel and the wingers just stand still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
One of our early games (maybe Arsenal at home last season) Ian Wright was a pundit on MOTD2. He said exactly the same thing. Nobody had any cute movement, we just stood and waited for the ball to come towards us without looking to create space. That's a coaching thing. That's also a player thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Now we've been relegated, now Warnock has gone, we're realising how able our players are.
I’ve noticed this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
His immediate instinctive response is to pass backwards first.
I mean, I know that he is supposed to be a CDM, but that is a poor excuse. Backwards and sideways. Very little forward incision.
We were very good at doing what we did. We now are not good at that or any other style... We've also got a decent squad of decent players, that cost an awful lot of money that aren't bad but aren't good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
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Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
There were blokes today screaming, pass forward, pass forward. My response, and I imagine Pack's would be, "to who?"
So many times that was the case, but the way we set up doesn’t help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
I wonder if we need to go to 3 at the back with 2 wing backs
3-5-2 maybe
Tomlin has to play, which then gives us a problem. Richards and Bennett could be wing backs, which actually helps mask their defensive lapses, while Peltier could play on the right of the back 3, as I still think he's our best defender. We have to find two strikers mind :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmower
Tomlin could be 1 .. or leave him as a midfield 3 .Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Ward deserves to be 1 of the strikers, then any 1 of Madine, Glatzel , NML or Tomlin... maybe Vassell who is apparently getting close to full fitness
I think Bogle will be gone in Jan
When everyone is fit, I don't think we should play Pack and Tomlin in the same team, because then we just don't have enough dynamism in midfield. Either we use Pack as a deep-lying playmaker with Ralls and Bacuna playing in front of him, or we use Tomlin as an advanced playmaker with Ralls and Bacuna playing behind him.
https://www.buildlineup.com/shared/5...8c092e24aec136Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Push Tomlin up so it would look more like a 3412
Swap players as you please, originally had Ward in for mobility then remembered we hoist it up quite a bit so swapped him.
Big man centre of the back 3 with slightly more mobile men either side.
I don't think Pack is very good at anything by this division's standards and I'm not sure where the idea that he is originated from. He's not a terrible player by any means, but he always looks bang average to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by WJ99mobile
I don’t think he’s a great passer, plenty go astray, but I also agree we don’t offer up a lot of options.
Watched the first half of Leeds game yesterday and Preston looked really good, they all knew where to run. What do we get? Wingers that don’t know they can cut inside and become a passing option, that decide to stay stuck to the white line and **** up most of our attacks. If I see Hoilett debate mid movement what he’s gonna do with the ball mid attack next game I think my heads gonna go. And someone tell NML it’s not a grenade and he can control it first time.
NML is so frustrating. He does step-overs, and rolls his boot over the top of the ball... the kind of things top players do; the ones who are comfortable on the ball and who the basics come natural to. Yet he cannot do the basics, like pass to a team mate or control the ball with his first touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
Crossing yesterday was abysmal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
For the life of me I can’t get my head around pro players not having the hunger to improve, ok you’re not gonna get many Ronaldos that stay behind hours after training, but surely Etheridge can ask the coaches to work on his kicking and decision making (passes/throws and speed of both) NML could stay behind and work on his first touch and other bits of his game.
We could list them for every player, I’d do it constructively but you know it would end up a bad slagging off session of the players.
Been away but managed to catch the last 30 minutes on Sky red button. We're so unlike any other team out there. It's as if they've all just woken up from a ten year coma. They're so bad it's almost comical.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
The coma comment is a good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
That is just how they seem 🙈