Realitycheck82 wrote:If we aren't dominant in the middle of the park, home or away we are struggling! We have no pace up front or in defence and the better teams will exploit that!...defo 2 points dropped tonight, 1 of the poorest teams I've seen at league 2 level for a while
Costastag wrote:It was a poor result against a poor team ,but we played some great football for the best part of it,mistakes were punished but we need to move on .I think swan has to start tonight ,but who do you drop to fit him in ?certainly not lapslie
BH_Stag wrote:adamstag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:arsene wengers coat wrote:Conker wrote:I don’t think the manager can be blamed for our players assuming at 2-0 it was done and dusted, the complacency was embarrassing.
Yeah agree with the complacency. But that is the management's fault. The 1 up top who didn't do anything also a bad decision.
I don't mind doing stick with a winning team. But the team that won at crewe weren't the team that started at crewe. So by that logic he should have started with the team that won at crewe not started at crewe, where we were equally as poor infront of goal and didn't make it count.
But it’s not a one up top really is it. Lapslie and Akins pretty much play on the same line.
give over.
Lapslie is playing as 1 of 2 forwards.
There was nothing wrong the tactics or starting 11 tonight for me. We were miles better than them in every aspect for 60 minutes up until individual errors changed the game and the way we just let our performance go to pot after the first rather than just keeping calm against a side we were far better than was concerning.
BH_Stag wrote:S7AGS - So we were miles better than them but the tactics from the start were wrong - strange one.
Akins was always going to play last night. He is seen as a focal point and a target to hit. His hold up play last night was generally absolutely fine but whenever he has a bad touch he’s hammered for it (show me a target man in league 2 that has a perfect touch on every occasion?). He’s not a 20 goal striker and is guilty of missing some chances (like every striker at the club has this season by the way) which is why he has another player with him up top. That was a toss up between Lapslie or Swan and Lapslie got the nod.
Lapslies output in that area since being played there has been good, scored goals, made assists, won penalties. If he was signed as a striker everyone would be raving about what a good striker he is! We put a ridiculous amount of crosses in the box which is what Lapslie thrives on getting on the end of. The first half was frustrating that we didn’t score but in the end it paid off and Lapslie scored from a cross.
I assume the popular choice would be to see Swan and Lapslie up top. Might work a dream, maybe Clough thinks it could be a bit lightweight?
I agree to an extent that Curles roll of the dice helped to change the game and we buckled but it was largely of our own doing! If we don’t give away that gift I have no doubts we’d have won 3 or 4-0. It was no masterclass by Curle, he just had to change something as they were 2-0 down. It was the goal more than anything that lifted them and it wasn’t through any good work of their own. No problem with questioning our subs either. I just don’t particularly subscribe to the idea that the tactics were wrong to start with.
NEStag wrote:Very disappointed but I'm making myself feel better by reflecting that at 1 0 down with 5 to go at Crewe we'd have snatched your hand off for 4 points from these two games. We could easily have lost that Crewe game and won this and ended up with fewer points. (I know we still let a 2 0 lead slip).
Stoney wrote:NEStag wrote:Very disappointed but I'm making myself feel better by reflecting that at 1 0 down with 5 to go at Crewe we'd have snatched your hand off for 4 points from these two games. We could easily have lost that Crewe game and won this and ended up with fewer points. (I know we still let a 2 0 lead slip).
Exactly what I said walking down Quarry Lane last night. I don't understand the meltdown.
Yes it's disappointing but I took lots of positives from last night. People need to chill out.
Akins is getting some right undeserved stick in this thread. I'm clearly on my own here but I thought he had a really good game.
adamstag wrote:Moving away from the result but once again what a great crowd for a friday night!
Even 2/3 years ago it would have been unheard of to get these crowds.
slowly but surely moving in the right direction.
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