Is there something to take from the loss of late goals in the games against Ross County, Celtic and today at St Johnstone?
Under Levein we would keep fighting until the final minute, however I don't get the feeling we have the fitness and concentration under McNamarra, our away form is also pretty poor and we have slipped up against Kilmarnock and Motherwell, the Kilmarnock game we just didn't turn up for.
I like McNamara and like the style of football we play but we either need to kill teams off earlier or increase fitness levels, under Levein I felt we were the fittest team in the league.
Thoughts?
Fitness
posted on 28/12/14
I like McNamara and like the style of football we play
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As do I mate............
posted on 28/12/14
Interesting point and there might be something in it. Although we're maybe not at Levein-era fitness levels, I think the reason we concede late on is more tactical and probably mental than physical. Too often we fall back and sit on our 18 yard box and invite teams on to us, which we really aren't good at. The Ross County game was the perfect example of a game that was killed off but rather than simply keeping possession and controlling the game we sat in and let them get chances.
As for McNamara, I do buy into what he's doing but I get very frustrated at many of his decisions. Yesterday for me was his fault in the sense that he had to make changes and didn't. His decision to not bring off a couple of players was baffling.