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Confirmed Graham Alexander New Manager, Chris Lucketti as Assistant

Confirmed Graham Alexander New Manager, Chris Lucketti as Assistant

BPIG said:
I agree with you but will caveat that by saying last time we were in League One our cheapest season ticket was £400 and it was £475 in the IPS. I still think we’d sell 10-12k season tickets at the current prices, even in L1
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Yeah, fair point.
 
BPIG said:
I agree with you but will caveat that by saying last time we were in League One our cheapest season ticket was £400 and it was £475 in the IPS. I still think we’d sell 10-12k season tickets at the current prices, even in L1
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We could introduce something like an ambassador scheme to entice fans to buy with say a free season ticket when we get to the premier league.
 
Very, very little mention of tactics post-sacking. Thankfully. But on that note, I’ve not a clue what we’re doing here. Saw it against Millwall, too.

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Doyler said:
Very, very little mention of tactics post-sacking. Thankfully. But on that note, I’ve not a clue what we’re doing here. Saw it against Millwall, too.

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Doubled up out wide to stop the cross as we should, Storey not used to playing central CB so has rigidly stayed within the D (where he'd usually stop covering at RCB) instead of coming another 5yrds across with the runner
 
Bobbage said:
Doubled up out wide to stop the cross as we should, Storey not used to playing central CB so has rigidly stayed within the D (where he'd usually stop covering at RCB) instead of coming another 5yrds across with the runner
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It’s not an ‘as we should’ scenario whatsoever. It represents a marked change to how any team defends in a back five, apart from when they are very deep, when as you say, you would expect to double up. Not when you are 30 yards from goal, and there is no one in the box to cross to.

It’s obviously by instruction; it was literally the first thing I noticed against Millwall.

Edit: Yes @Bobbage you’re objectively right though that Storey should move across. Then the risk just changes from defending a cross to having your back line stretched.
 
Doyler said:
It’s not an ‘as we should’ scenario whatsoever. It represents a marked change to how any team defends in a back five, apart from when they are very deep, when as you say, you would expect to double up. Not when you are 30 yards from goal, and there is no one in the box to cross to.

It’s obviously by instruction; it was literally the first thing I noticed against Millwall.

Edit: Yes @Bobbage you’re objectively right though that Storey should move across. Then the risk just changes from defending a cross to having your back line stretched.
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I'm really not sure what you think you've seen here. It's very standard.
 
Bobbage said:
I'm really not sure what you think you've seen here. It's very standard.
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Nope, not when the ball is in that area of the pitch. ‘Very standard’, for the wide centre half, is this:

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It’s one thing getting dragged out wide to follow a runner, but Hughes stepping up like that, as he did so often against Millwall too, is a very big change in how we’ve been defending.
 
Doyler said:
Nope, not when the ball is in that area of the pitch. ‘Very standard’, for the wide centre half, is this:

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It’s one thing getting dragged out wide to follow a runner, but Hughes stepping up like that, as he did so often against Millwall too, is a very big change in how we’ve been defending.
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And possibly one that needs reverting back based on the goals we’re conceding given that the wingbacks can’t get to grips with it
 
Bobbage said:
I mean... That's pretty much a mirror image of the situation you seem to be saying is now completely different? 🙄

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Apart from the fact it’s not at all?

Hughes is only one yard further inside the pitch. He’s basically on the same line as Small, focusing on the player with the ball.

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Yet in the one you claim to be a mirror image, Storey is comfortably ten yards further inside the pitch, covering the inside channel run:

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So, it’s remarkably different. Quite impressive how you don’t manage to see the difference.
 
Doyler said:
Apart from the fact it’s not at all?

Hughes is only one yard further inside the pitch. He’s basically on the same line as Small, focusing on the player with the ball.

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Yet in the one you claim to be a mirror image, Storey is comfortably ten yards further inside the pitch, covering the inside channel run:

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So, it’s remarkably different. Quite impressive how you don’t manage to see the difference.
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Whatever it is you think you've seen comparing different players in completely different teams in totally different in-game scenarios I'm glad it makes you happy.
 
Bobbage said:
Whatever it is you think you've seen comparing different players in completely different teams in totally different in-game scenarios I'm glad it makes you happy.
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It seems very over simplistic to say as a wide centre back you do this or do that every game. Like every position whether defending or attacking will vary on who you are playing against and how they play and line up.
You just have to hope the players are intelligent enough to adapt and follow different instructions or be able to adapt on there feet which our players don’t seem to be able to do
 
Bobbage said:
Doubled up out wide to stop the cross as we should, Storey not used to playing central CB so has rigidly stayed within the D (where he'd usually stop covering at RCB) instead of coming another 5yrds across with the runner
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Storey plays football? Now there’s a novelty.
 
Yeti said:
It seems very over simplistic to say as a wide centre back you do this or do that every game. Like every position whether defending or attacking will vary on who you are playing against and how they play and line up.
You just have to hope the players are intelligent enough to adapt and follow different instructions or be able to adapt on there feet which our players don’t seem to be able to do
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