Decent display today, Hobo, without doing anything spectacular.
Looked like a team again and showed some signs that we might be getting our old United back soon.
Can't have any complaints today and it all turned out easier than I thought it might be despite the rough-house tactics from the opposition.
Happy for J McN getting a win in his first match in charge.
Don't think anyone can argue that the new gaffer got his tactics correct after winning 3-0 however for me I still think there's a lot of hard work ahead if JMc.
Firstly if we're gonna continue to play with one up front and shell high balls to Daly then its vital we get players at least expecting him to win them and look to run off him. Too many times today he was isolated and lost possession.
Secondly can anyone explain to me why a full time premier player in his 20's can't sprint? Daly appears to be towing a caravan and has done since he joined us !!
Lastly but probably most importantly I agree with the first post in that Rankin and Armstrong both attacked and when we lost the ball there was far too much space in the middle of the park which would have been better exploited had it not been for the fact we were playing a pub team.
We lacked a real sense of urgency today to get the ball wide and utilise our biggest asset in GMS.
Hopefully all these points have been noticed by our new gaffer and will get to work on Monday during training.
All in all though a great start to his new post. Just hope he keeps it going.
It's funny though, Jon Daly was typically slow & cumbersome and not much use on ball, but he got 2 assists and a goal.
Most importantly our defence was rock solid. I thought Keith Watson at right back was immense and dealt with their only threat fantastically well. I thought Gunning and Dillon looked back to their old selves (Dillon was even spraying the passes about like Baresi!) and Douglas was solid enough.
As I said the other day, the job for McNamara is to sort the defence out. If he does that then we'll win games because we do have the firepower to score goals.
I do agree with what you said about the subs though. I thought they came at the right time and helped consolidate what we had. Good management.
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posted on 2/2/13
Decent display today, Hobo, without doing anything spectacular.
Looked like a team again and showed some signs that we might be getting our old United back soon.
Can't have any complaints today and it all turned out easier than I thought it might be despite the rough-house tactics from the opposition.
Happy for J McN getting a win in his first match in charge.
posted on 2/2/13
Don't think anyone can argue that the new gaffer got his tactics correct after winning 3-0 however for me I still think there's a lot of hard work ahead if JMc.
Firstly if we're gonna continue to play with one up front and shell high balls to Daly then its vital we get players at least expecting him to win them and look to run off him. Too many times today he was isolated and lost possession.
Secondly can anyone explain to me why a full time premier player in his 20's can't sprint? Daly appears to be towing a caravan and has done since he joined us !!
Lastly but probably most importantly I agree with the first post in that Rankin and Armstrong both attacked and when we lost the ball there was far too much space in the middle of the park which would have been better exploited had it not been for the fact we were playing a pub team.
We lacked a real sense of urgency today to get the ball wide and utilise our biggest asset in GMS.
Hopefully all these points have been noticed by our new gaffer and will get to work on Monday during training.
All in all though a great start to his new post. Just hope he keeps it going.
posted on 2/2/13
It's funny though, Jon Daly was typically slow & cumbersome and not much use on ball, but he got 2 assists and a goal.
posted on 2/2/13
Most importantly our defence was rock solid. I thought Keith Watson at right back was immense and dealt with their only threat fantastically well. I thought Gunning and Dillon looked back to their old selves (Dillon was even spraying the passes about like Baresi!) and Douglas was solid enough.
As I said the other day, the job for McNamara is to sort the defence out. If he does that then we'll win games because we do have the firepower to score goals.
I do agree with what you said about the subs though. I thought they came at the right time and helped consolidate what we had. Good management.
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