the whole team is slow, but no one is slower than Madine
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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
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
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.
Now we've been relegated, now Warnock has gone, we're realising how able our players are.
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
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.
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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 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.
Crossing yesterday was abysmal.
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.