Morning
After another aweful game in which we look hopeless and reading peoples comments in recent weeks its got me thinking about how to survive and prosper.
Right now survival is our real aim as our nice cushion on all the teams below us is eroding quicker than a sumerset riverbank. We still have 7 points but given our form Im not very confident of avoiding another nail biting last day again.
I am starting to seriously doubt Robins as he is in a bad way and something is not right in the club. However I dont think sacking him is the right thing to do (before the end of the season anyway) and so we have to work out how we can survive.
From what I have seen we are slow with the ball and dont chase it down enough when we dotn have it. We love to pass around our defence (who are the least technically able players we have) and often put ourselve under massive pressure by doing silly mistakes because of it. We have no pace and movement and when someone has the ball all our players are standing expecting a ball played to them, not making space and creating a good chance. This makes us predictable and teams are easily working us out and letting us keep the ball in undangerous areas. It then tends to go back to a defender who lumps the ball up to noone and we start all over again.
So my long winded rant is about Robins having some balls and realise that he is going to have to take risks and he could be out of a job in May anyway so he doesnt have a lot to lose. Holmes isnt the finished player yet and makes mistakes but still is the only midfielder we have who looks to take a ball and move forward with it and do something with it. To me we should build our team around that as that appears to be our "philosophy" and if we dont give him enough games he can never have the chance to prove it or not. I wouldnt mind seeing Holmes trying to feed some throughballs to Wells or spray them to Hammill or Dixon on the wings as this would be to feet and we always do better when we play like that.
We could go for this approach and put another man upfront (a striker not a winger) and still lose but I would be happier and I think our fans would too. Its not the losing that hurts, its the lack of effort and the fact that you know they are taking the michael out of us waiting for their summer holiday.
So in short...Robins have some balls
Who Dares Wins
posted on 9/4/14
7 points off the bottom 3
17th Town 46pts -7gd
22nd Millwall 39pts -30gd
23rd Barnsley 36pts -28gd
24th Yeovil 35pts --25gd
So you might as well say it's 8points needed to overhaul us with such a poor goal difference for the bottom 3
I still say we are safe
posted on 9/4/14
a bit harsh Darn.
Good points mbwb (welcome back)
posted on 9/4/14
This time last year we were winning at Wolves, Bristol City, thrashing Millwall, We wouldn't get a point against that lot this year !
posted on 9/4/14
How much are tickets at derby and can we pay ont day?
posted on 9/4/14
Wow Darn you are a little worked up today!
Its like they say though...opinions are like a-holes......Australia has a lot of them!!!
posted on 9/4/14
posted on 9/4/14
Fantastic article. I applaud.
Holmes does, and is very good at, passing the ball. The difference he brings is that he also beats players and we have no-one in the midfield who does this (exlcuding Hamill - a winger). That means we get all clogged up and predictable in midfield and just seem to go nowhere if the opposition mark up adequately.
As soon as you have a player, like Holmes, who takes opposition players out of the game by beating them, everything opens up and the passes look loads better because they suddenly go to free players as he draws more opponents towards him.
I'm a Robins man - still - but I am hugely dissapointed at his reluctance to play a game-changer over the likes of the dull and average Norwood.
posted on 9/4/14
I would play Homes from the start, but give him a free role. There was comment about him being sent back from Yeovil because he didn’t ‘tackle back’. See http://youtu.be/J7msGQPd4g8 Brian Clough being interviewed by Big Ron.
Clough: “I used to look at what they’d got, and I was a great believer in getting out of them what they‘d got. I never harped on about what they hadn’t got…”
Football in England could learn a lot from that… but it won’t, unless it changes its attitude to young players. I read recently that Brendan Rodgers encourages his players to express themselves, and that he wants England, the FA and those involved in developing players to take off the straitjacket. Apparently, he reckons that many young players have had the talent coached out of them or have been simply stifled.
posted on 9/4/14
All........
All tared with the same brush then
posted on 10/4/14
After their defeat by Atlético Madrid, and their exit from the Champions League, is it possible that FC Barcelona will now do us all a favour and stop playing like FC Barcelona?
Hope springs eternal!