It's like Ipswich are playing a group of clothes shop dummies, only the dummies would be more of a threat. Losing is one thing, but losing like this is utterly shameful.
We dominates them at the Valley and was probably one of our best performances of the season.
They’ve dominated us here and is most likely one of their best performances of their season.
Meanwhile both teams are finishing mid table. Tells you everything you need to know - we are not as different as you think.
- apparently we are easy to beat due to the formation, yet this team picks up 19 points from last nine games. Last time we had a bad run of results, Jacko’s tactics got found out but then it mysteriously started working again… when better players came in.
- the deficiencies of our midfielders was horribly exposed in the opening 15 minutes. Those deficiencies are leaving us open to semi-regular bad performances and we are being served one today.
Don’t see how this changes next year, unless we change tactically.
When we are in possession and pushing forwards our two advanced midfielders always seem to peel left and right, with Dobson tending to sit back centrally. This means when we get turned over there’s often massive spaces in the middle of the pitch for the opposition to exploit.
It happens time and time again, and it’s why teams like Hartlepool and even Gateshead were able to get players forward in good attacking positions.
It gets better next year once Gilbey and Morgan are out of the team. They are woeful. Can’t expect Dobson to run around chasing Celina, Chaplin and Bakinson all by himself.
That’s why midfield is the hardest position to play. You have to know when to get forward and when to hold your position, where the man is and where the pass is going. Unfortunately these two don’t have it.
I feel like you’ve completely missed my point here. It’s nothing to do with the ‘technical’ quality of Gilbey and Morgan. I’m talking about how tactically we are so set up to try and get the ball out wide and get crosses into Stockley that there is often massive open spaces in the middle of the park which are very easy to exploit on the turnover.
How does having better technical players rectify that? When often we end up in possession in to corner of the pitch with our WB, Washington and one of the midfielders.
Every tactic you implement is going to leave holes if everyone is doing their own thing with no regard for the team. For me, it always comes back to football intelligence. They aren’t working together. If in this example, one is going wide, the others have to cover.
And have you seen better when Fraser, Lee or JFC played in those advanced positions? Ive not. Funny enough we had the same issue when Bowyer was in charge as well. The issue has persisted with whoever we played in the middle of the park, because we play an awful brand of one dimensional football, and have done for a long time.
Yeah it will work on some days. But over a difficult 46 game season, it’s never going to be enough to get you promoted.
Haven’t seen enough of a fit JFC or Fraser to say with regards to those two.
I will happily put Lee into the same bucket as Morgan and Gilbey. Loves to get forward, doesn’t do enough defensively to play in midfield. None of the three are good enough to start next season.
Im not saying they are, but I think you are being very naive if you think we buy a couple or better midfielders in and all of a sudden we turn into a this fluid passing team, that are able to play through the thirds, create pockets of space for ourselves and also be able to press and defend in numbers. It’s not happening.
I’ve seen enough from Jackson to see the brand of football he wants to play, and sadly I can’t see it being effective over a season.
It's like Ipswich are playing a group of clothes shop dummies, only the dummies would be more of a threat. Losing is one thing, but losing like this is utterly shameful.
This has been said many times this season. We concede, we lose. Look how few draws we have. This surely indicates an inability to get back into games once we are losing.
The commentator talks about the Stockley effort means we would be getting back in the game, It will take a couple of seasons for us to get back into this game.
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Not sure I heard it correctly but did he say Europe in 10 years being the ambition in the pre match interview?
Championship football seems a way of at present.
Losing is one thing, but losing like this is utterly shameful.
We went hunting in the bargain bin after the season had started.