I didn’t watch

[PSumbler]

Yesterdays game which many will say is a blessing

But having watched the goals this morning it highlighted everything wrong with a Luke Williams team , I’ve seen smaller deserts than the holes in our defence

Russell Martin MK II and a downgraded version at that

 

[Pentyrchjack]

Spot on. Many sides can defend well but are weaker up front, so they park the bus and try and grab set piece goals.

We can neither defend or attack well.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Don't be fooled, we are in a fight to stay in this league, and after yesterday I doubt we have the players with the right minerals to dog it out.

 

[Cooperman]

Yesterdays game which many will say is a blessing

But having watched the goals this morning it highlighted everything wrong with a Luke Williams team , I’ve seen smaller deserts than the holes in our defence

Russell Martin MK II and a downgraded version at that

We are also defending like Luke had his Notts County team defending. The big difference between the two teams though is that they could win 5-4 or 4-3. I am surprised it has taken this long for our defensive frailties to show.

 

[cadleigh]

We are also defending like Luke had his Notts County team defending. The big difference between the two teams though is that they could win 5-4 or 4-3. I am surprised it has taken this long for our defensive frailties to show.

And yet we had the tightest defence in the division for the first part of the season.

I don't buy this 'the players are sabotaging him' line. You only had to see the passion on Liam's face yesterday when he celebrated his goal to know that they care deeply about winning. (Although there was anger there too it seemed to me - reminded me of Michu slamming the advertising hoardings in his second season.)

For all Tymon and Key's shortcomings as FBs (and there are a lot), our current defensive frailty surely comes down to tactics and how Williams is setting up his teams to handle set pieces and counter attacks. Like a First World War General, he keeps chucking waves of men forward on the basis that the last attack failed so let's try more of the same.

 

[ARQS]

And yet we had the tightest defence in the division for the first part of the season.

I don't buy this 'the players are sabotaging him' line. You only had to see the passion on Liam's face yesterday when he celebrated his goal to know that they care deeply about winning. (Although there was anger there too it seemed to me - reminded me of Michu slamming the advertising hoardings in his second season.)

For all Tymon and Key's shortcomings as FBs (and there are a lot), our current defensive frailty surely comes down to tactics and how Williams is setting up his teams to handle set pieces and counter attacks. Like a First World War General, he keeps chucking waves of men forward on the basis that the last attack failed so let's try more of the same.

Depends which way you look at it.

Cullen is always going to care, irrespective of what he thinks of the manager.

Then you look at the goals we conceded and see Key and Tymon give it away cheaply on a couple of occasions and Tymon's gentle jog back for the first one it does make you wonder

 

[sainthelens]

Fair to say Coventry is now the biggest game of the season. Shame there'll be only 7/8 k to see it. But this is where Luke/the board whoever is to blame have put us.
Lose it, then come May...it'll be a fckn disaster.

 

[magicdaps10]

And yet we had the tightest defence in the division for the first part of the season.

I don't buy this 'the players are sabotaging him' line. You only had to see the passion on Liam's face yesterday when he celebrated his goal to know that they care deeply about winning. (Although there was anger there too it seemed to me - reminded me of Michu slamming the advertising hoardings in his second season.)

For all Tymon and Key's shortcomings as FBs (and there are a lot), our current defensive frailty surely comes down to tactics and how Williams is setting up his teams to handle set pieces and counter attacks. Like a First World War General, he keeps chucking waves of men forward on the basis that the last attack failed so let's try more of the same.

He is chucking players forward because we don't have the quality in main ones up top to create and score enough goals.
Get more bodies forward and we will try and make up for the lack of quality from our forward players......leaves big spaces at the back and puts bigger pressure on our defenders to do more work than is required and what they were doing at the start of the season when we were set up more solid.

 

[Deleted member 1454]

And yet we had the tightest defence in the division for the first part of the season.

We did, but, as much as I'm not a fan of the xG brigade, many people who are that way inclined warned that we were wildly over performing on xGA at the time, and there would inevitably be a correction. The Norwich game at home in September was a prime example - we won 1-0, but Vigoroux was MOTM, and we were clinging on for dear life for most of it.

I think it's fair to say that the promised correction has since occurred.

 

[Cooperman]

Fair to say Coventry is now the biggest game of the season. Shame there'll be only 7/8 k to see it. But this is where Luke/the board whoever is to blame have put us.
Lose it, then come May...it'll be a fckn disaster.

I think we will get more than 8k, it’s a traditional Saturday 3pm after all. However we won’t be getting close to 14k.

 

[Jackflack]

We have enough quality (ability wise) in the squad to stay up. Not enough depth though and crucially not enough heart with some of the players.
The manager’s public utterances are increasingly appalling. Own your mistakes and for Gods sake, never ever say “the crowd atmosphere got to my players” again. You are turning them into precious cowards.

 

[T8AD365]

We did, but, as much as I'm not a fan of the xG brigade, many people who are that way inclined warned that we were wildly over performing on xGA at the time, and there would inevitably be a correction. The Norwich game at home in September was a prime example - we won 1-0, but Vigoroux was MOTM, and we were clinging on for dear life for most of it.

I think it's fair to say that the promised correction has since occurred.

I felt like I was banging this drum so many times earlier in the season