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I will always love super tommy clarke, and i am NOT a player basher....however, Darnel and Raff give so much more going forward and possibly also now in defence also. I think its poss easier to step into centre back and perform such as hunts does, but left and right backs now often face tricky wingers in this league and a lack of pace in these spots can massively cost

i think my point is, i would have played Raff over Super Tommy C yesterday, and poss would moving forward should fish be out
 
I think AN has now started Clarke 5 times in a row v Millwall.

The famously detailed and meticulous pre-match tactical dossier perhaps needs updating, or at least a bit less copy/paste.
 
Thracia said:
I think AN has now started Clarke 5 times in a row v Millwall.

The famously detailed and meticulous pre-match tactical dossier perhaps needs updating, or at least a bit less copy/paste.
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Out of interest, how many of them have we won?
 
Don't think TC playing full back made any difference to the result .
Most of our problems came from our midfield & forward player trying to play to much football & our build up was far to slow & constantly trying to play through them. How many times in good positions to cross a ball did it end up going back to Rudd
 
So Millwall attacked up our Right with Bodvarrson; Wallace the LB and Cooper the LCB..... all of them 6' plus and bigger in Coopes case - and yet we expect Raff could handle that ?

TC won lots of headers.... what he cant do is use the space in front to press forward and play good passes.... We could have had a good attacking RB and been 3 down, or a clean sheet and no attacking FB....
 
I'd have started Fisher if he was fit but I think Clarke over Rafferty may have been the right thing yesterday.

I like Rafferty's effort and determination etc, but has he ever actually played well at right back?

He’s not a terrible full back but you'd think he's a world beater the way that people were crying out for him at half time yesterday. In general, is he a better full back than Tom Clarke? Probably yes, but bringing him on for Clarke would've been a waste of a sub.

sports rehab said:
So Millwall attacked up our Right with Bodvarrson; Wallace the LB and Cooper the LCB..... all of them 6' plus and bigger in Coopes case - and yet we expect Raff could handle that ?

TC won lots of headers.... what he cant do is use the space in front to press forward and play good passes.... We could have had a good attacking RB and been 3 down, or a clean sheet and no attacking FB....
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Rafferty is also an incredibly limited full back, so he wouldn't have done much of that either.
 
Sounds like we need better full backs all round - but we've all known that for a while now.

Also sounds like we set up at home to "handle" the opposition's attacking threat first and foremost, rather than focusing on our own attacking threat.
 
bowlandwhites said:
Don't think TC playing full back made any difference to the result .
Most of our problems came from our midfield & forward player trying to play to much football & our build up was far to slow & constantly trying to play through them. How many times in good positions to cross a ball did it end up going back to Rudd
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Fisher constantly bombing on, joining in with attack and being able to get to the byline regularly gives us another dimension to our attacks. Another option for our midfielders and forward players when trying to break teams down.

Aggressive, attacking fullbacks make a massive difference to a teams offensive play, as I believe Fisher would have done yesterday.

Sacrifice that for a far more defensive player in Clarke, and it's no surprise that we didn't look as threatening as we can be.

Yeah we shouldn't rely so heavily on this option and the players that did play should shoulder the responsibility, but what I'm saying is, Fisher would have undoubtedly given us greater impetuous going forward.
 
I think Browne should concentrate on making the Right Back spot his own. In my opinion while he's a fit lad who gives everything every game, I think he's technically limited compared to other midfield players and slows the game down too much. His ability in the air and tackling could make him an ideal fullback - better than anything we have or could afford to buy. From an attacking perspective he could be far more effective on the overlap and chip in with goals too.
 
Thracia said:
Sounds like we need better full backs all round - but we've all known that for a while now.

Also sounds like we set up at home to "handle" the opposition's attacking threat first and foremost, rather than focusing on our own attacking threat.
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I‘ve been saying we need better full backs for quite some time. The best teams have attacking full backs/wing backs and it was a big disappointment that we failed to land Max Lowe imo. Fisher is ok going forward but we do need to have more attacking full/wing backs to take our game to the next level. Just when we look to have improved our away form, our home form has taken a knock. AN gets his tactics right more often than not, but we do seem to set out a bit more negative for home games than what we need to do.
 
Tom Clarke was poor yesterday. But he was one of many poor performances. Hughes was just as poor at left back as an example. Yet the way some people were going on yesterday, Clarke single handedly cost us the game yesterday. Which he certainly didn't.
 
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