Ronald

[IAN05]

I’m not sure it’s a case of ‘forgoing defensive duties’. I think it’s a conscious tactical decision for the wingers to tuck in when the ball is on the opposite side of the pitch to help with our press and win the ball back higher up the pitch. The downside is it opens us up to cross field passes.

Pros and cons and I’m sure it’s something that both our coaches and the opposition have picked up on.

It is tactical, Sheehan explained it in the fans forum. My 12 year old pointed out the obvious risk of it and the response was that not many players had the quality to expose it.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

It is tactical, Sheehan explained it in the fans forum. My 12 year old pointed out the obvious risk of it and the response was that not many players had the quality to expose it.

All tactics come with an element of risk.

Personally I’d rather us take gambles with and without the ball at the top end of the pitch, than in our defensive 3rd as we’ve done with a couple of recent managers!

He’s probably right about the ‘quality’ comment at Championship level, but it has caused us problems in a few games this season. Sure it’ll be tweaked as the season progresses.

 

[J_B]

Wingers tucking in and arriving at the back post when an attack develops on the opposite side is a fairly standard positional tactic. If Sinclair hadn’t done that and stayed on his wing he wouldn’t have scored the second goal against Reading at Wembley in 2011.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

Wingers tucking in and arriving at the back post when an attack develops on the opposite side is a fairly standard positional tactic. If Sinclair hadn’t done that and stayed on his wing he wouldn’t have scored the second goal against Reading at Wembley in 2011.

Agreed.

I was talking about when the opposition have the ball, which is where we’ve been caught out by the opposition switching play and leaving Key/Tymon 1v1 and sometimes 2v1

 

[Colin-swansea]

I’m not sure it’s a case of ‘forgoing defensive duties’. I think it’s a conscious tactical decision for the wingers to tuck in when the ball is on the opposite side of the pitch to help with our press and win the ball back higher up the pitch. The downside is it opens us up to cross field passes.

Pros and cons and I’m sure it’s something that both our coaches and the opposition have picked up on.

I would have thought that any footballer of the calibre as Hull's Giles for producing telling crosses into our penalty are would have come under far more scrutiny than what we gave him. There's tucking in, but to continually leave one defender on his own and inviting the opposition to switch the play is just asking for trouble.