![]() But the absolute positives are how we attacked. Defensively Mullarkey is a liability and he doesn't appear to fancy Efete at all. ![]() Be interesting to see how quickly the new lad finds himself in the starting eleven but also who else Artell brings in this week. I've defended our backline a bit this season saying that they were good players lacking confidence, but I'm at the point of just thinking they're not up to it. They often had time to control the ball (owing to a lack of a challenge) but instead just took the easiest option, put it into the midfield area and gave possession back. So why Rodgers and Maher opted nearly every time to put free headers in those areas I don't know. With two strikers dropping deep into midfield they overloaded us an awful lot. He was everywhere and doing everything at manic pace. Not quite sure why I thought it but I had in my head that he was just a poacher. Crowley is incredibly underrated and I was genuinely surprised by Langstaff's game. McGoldrick dropping deep is an asset above this level. But their jobs were made so much harder by the amount of needless second balls that were put up for challenge in the middle. I thought our midfield was magnificent on Saturday with Conteh and Clifton back to their best with Andrews showing the type of form from earlier in his loan spell. The last thing to do is show him on the outside and give him space to whip a cross around you.įirst time is poor, the second is criminal and by the time he's done it for a fourth time you're just lost for words.Įven after those crosses there was opportunities to clear the lines and we didn't. The lad barely uses his right leg to stand on, so show him inside and make it difficult for him. So the simplest thing you do is put him on it, which we did time and time again. His left foot is a proper proverbial wand, it's difficult to defend against. Jodi Jones is an incredible player at this level. They were a result of just sloppy and poor defending. With the possible exception of the first goal (Mullarkey bombs on, goes too early and gets caught out) were any of the County goals a result of an attacking display. It doesn't matter to me what formation or style we adopt, you cannot defend like that and hope to get away with it. ![]() However, that defence cannot be the one that we move forward with. It's very much up in the air and we're as open at the back as we are entertaining going forward. Equally so that we just need to accept and perhaps enjoy this transitional period. We're picking up enough points and there's more than enough quality to avoid a relegation scrap. I said a few times last week that our really bad displays have largely been infrequent, matched by the really good displays. No prizes for guessing he's gone with Option 2. Roll the dice a little that enough of the squad can adapt and it'll be more than enough to see us reach safety AND get a bit of a head start for (what we all hope will be) a promotion push or at least significant improvement next season. Option 2: Take the bull by the horns, install a new approach and see who can adapt to it. Option 1: Take stock of the immediate, focus on just staying up and working to what suits the current squad best and then look to implement a new style in the summer. But he has two choices here, both have been advocated by a fair number of posters on this forum in the last two or three weeks. What is glaringly obvious is that he doesn't have the players to that, certainly defensively. He wants us to win but with style and entertain. You can clearly see what Artell wants to do. ![]() For me, having found myself losing a bit of my interest and enthusiasm for Town over the last 18 months at various stages, that's so welcome! I simply didn't want that game to end and wouldn't have grumbled had the ref just let it play on forever. I think I've just about got my breath back!įirst of all, that was just fantastic entertainment. ![]()
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