Exorcising the Valley of Doom

AFKABartram

Blame a lame crowd as much as you like, 13 points out of 30 is simply not good enough at home for the squad we have, in both talent and wage bill.

So short of getting a Thamesmead witch in to provide some ceremony to remove the ground of its demons, how do the manager and players get things back on track ?

Heath Hero

Might be time to freshen things up a bit, e.g.

Moutaoukil for Mills
Bougherra for Fortune
Racon/Semedo for Holland & Zhi
Give Reid and Iwelumo a rest - see what McLeod and Varney look like together up front? If Iwelumo isn't there we can't keep lumping it up to him.

Chirpy Red

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leftbehind

cant be any harm in a change see how things go, that way a few get rested and when we change back they should be refreshed

oohaahmortimer

the 4 games i've not been to we've picked up 10 points , i'm not going saturday providing my vets team has a fixture

AFKABartram

4 changes on Saturday though could of been seen as 'freshing it up', and that didn't work !!

For me, we need to put a lot of pressure on the two wide midfielders to perform, either Sam/Moo2, and THomas on the left, and get Mills overlapping as much as possible. Make it our ploy to play with as much width as possible and try and turn their full backs. By doing so, it will free up whoever the two is in the middle to play (and two from Semedo, Reid or ZZ CAN play), but also means that any high balls for Iwelumo are received from angles, rather than aimless humps to him with his back to goal.

We need to get at teams more, and have more desire and intensity in our attacking play.

AFKABartram

And in turn, if the crowd see us really trying to go at a side, they will respond.

oohaahmortimer

saw thomas b4 the game on saturday and he was limping pretty gingerly so not to sure how long that could keep him out for

AFKABartram

then we need to find another option there, because Reid just cannot play left mid for me, it makes us to narrow and and not fluid enough.

kigelia

[quote][cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]And in turn, if the crowd see us really trying to go at a side, they will respond.[/quote]

I think this is the key. We need to give it a go at some real high tempo football for the first ten minutes or so, not long ball, but running at defenders, quick passing, early shots on goal (although not from Zheng), also I would play towards the north stand first half as well (although that didn't work well on Saturday)

razil

I think we need to rest Reid and Iwelumo tomorrow night they clearly need it big time, get some pace 4-4-2 with a solid midfield, I wouldn't change the back four although perhaps give Fortune a breather and put Mills in the centre, thought Magic looked good as a going forward full back.

So possibly


Boughera Mills Sodje Powell
Sam Holland ZZ or Semedo Thomas
VMcLeod Varney

AFKABartram

[cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]And in turn, if the crowd see us really trying to go at a side, they will respond.

certainaly seemed the case today ! Decent atmosphere throughout