Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
As I mentioned, the way we played suited Moore who did well in what I'm pretty sure was my first look at him, but Waite was anonymous, Spence missed a couple of decent chances and was not seen much otherwise, Coxe didn't get forward as much as usual and although Patten did some good defensive work in preventing a four on two for Sheffield from producing a goal, he was pretty subdued overall - we certainly weren't playing to their strengths.
What's confusing me is that we seemed to be doing away with all that by the end of last season. I saw a couple of games where we shifted to a back 3/5 with the full backs bombing on to give width, it seems a logical system as that's similar to how the Academy play and with the personnel available (Mayembe excluded maybe) there's not much point in trying to replicate the first team's set up. Here was my upbeat summary of the last game against Bolton.

http://www.ccmb.co.uk/showthread.php...=1#post4966208

Maybe there was an expectation that Warnock wouldn't be around this season but even in the knowledge that he is the under-23s seemed to be playing some good football pre-season. It was all Tomlin initially, then all Waite. I guess some of the opposition wasn't that great but, even so, I would've thought it hard for those two to be running games if the ball was continually being kicked down the channels. Hard to understand what's going on.