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Formation Change

Formation Change

sports rehab said:
I do worry that the first manager to get us top of The Championship for 14+ years and the first manager to keep us in the top 3 for a few weeks since 1964 is suddenly clueless as to formation; tactics and players.... when experienced knowledgeable fans could do so much better...

Clearly AN must have had some sort of 'brain injury' since the end of November to allow such a relegation form decline to the bottom 3 by January !!!
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Something has happened, not just results. The way we are playing is woeful
 
sports rehab said:
I do worry that the first manager to get us top of The Championship for 14+ years and the first manager to keep us in the top 3 for a few weeks since 1964 is suddenly clueless as to formation; tactics and players.... when experienced knowledgeable fans could do so much better...

Clearly AN must have had some sort of 'brain injury' since the end of November to allow such a relegation form decline to the bottom 3 by January !!!
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Or maybe he just over thinks things sometimes!
 
One of my friends has a girlfriend who is a Norwich fan, and I cast my mind back to what she said whilst AN was in charge. He has his favourites who he will play week in week out, even if they are not doing the business!!
 
I don't agree that we're suddenly awful or bad to watch. We were good to watch and dominant at Cardiff, we were excellent to watch for a long spell at Leeds, and we had spells against boro before the unfortunate 2nd goal. First half at rovers was dire though. It just seems that under AN we go on extreme runs of form, both positive and negative. This time we've had a great start so if we get on another good run, we have a great chance of top 6.
 
djwoody said:
Also played well against Fulham.
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Swings and roundabouts I suppose and maybe I am being over critical and looking at half empty instead of half full but Derby, Hull, first half v Rovers, QPR, Reading and Middlesbrough weren't too great tbh. And as has been well documented Rovers away was cross. I just feel that the style of football we are playing isn't great to watch and unfortunately I feel we have been worked out. Not like me to be a pessimist believe me. Hopefully it's a blip and we can snap out of it and get back to winning ways as that's what we all want
 
Thracia said:
I don't think we're easy to play against, but we're certainly easy to defend against.

AN will never change to 4-4-2 though - when his 4-5-1 fails, he'll blame the players (Green etc.), or the opposition for not defending properly by passing it out from the back like they're supposed to, but never, ever his precious system.
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didn’t realise you are Jurgen Klopps prodigy. Apply for the job lad!
 
We tend to raise our game against "better" teams and lower our standards against lower clubs (a case of "#teamlike") who generally then raise their games against us.
 
Baldygit said:
We tend to raise our game against "better" teams and lower our standards against lower clubs (a case of "#teamlike") who generally then raise their games against us.
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I think that it's more that our style of play works better against stronger teams, high pressing and workmanlike performances work really well against teams who come and try to play, especially those who try and pass out from the back, but doesn't really against sides who sit deep and try to contain us.
 
Delaney said:
I think that it's more that our style of play works better against stronger teams, high pressing and workmanlike performances work really well against teams who come and try to play, especially those who try and pass out from the back, but doesn't really against sides who sit deep and try to contain us.
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I don't buy into this. Any team can sit in once they've gone 2-0 up in the 1st half of a game. It's not just about pressing high up the pitch, it's about taking the initiative early on an pressing all over the park, no matter who we're playing an really getting in their faces from the off. We don't do it enough any more an it's our greatest strength
 
Pressing only works when they care about having possession, if they're happy just to boot it long, it doesn't work. Hence we can't/don't do it when teams sit deep and play direct, counter attacking football.

Our issue is that we're currently not a great team in possession- we lack creativity- Gally is meant to be our playmaker, and right now he's off the boil.
 
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