Why do we keep passing the ball backwards and square it does not hurt teams it gives them a chance to regroup and get men behind the ball. This then makes it hard for us as we do not have the ability to make killer passes to open teams up. This today lead to there opening goal by going forward turning back trying to play a silly square pass that got cut out and they broke and scored.
We need to be more forward thinking by going backwards towards your own goal your not going to score or beat teams its rubbish and boring to watch.
Why play racon on the left where hes non existant and does not go down line just cuts back onto his right, he needs to be in middle in his correct position and reid on the left and Mc shit dropped he offers us nothing.
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Our players are in a lose-lose situation: if they play the long ball, they get booed. If they play it around and play the patient game, they get booed? It makes me ashamed that our fans can do that.
Spot on. I was impressed with the attempts at retaining possession and building up patiently. Ok there was no end product but it is better than the hit and hope style which is often equally as fruitless.
Think encouraging players to play football instills the right mentality.
Those booing it dont have a fucking clue about football or supporting a team. Absolute muppets.
Thats not what I am saying...the moron expected us to play like barca, move the ball around like them etc...he also made loads of other very stupid comments and quite clearly has never kicked a ball in his life.
Spot on. I thought that once we got relegated from the premiership, we would have got rid of some of the morons, but we clearly have not.
Another guy near me kept saying wright-phillips shouldnt be playing and scoring goals is not enough to get him into the team. (in fact, he was calling him bart-williams most of the time, shows you how much he knows). When I pointed out the fact that goals win games and that he hasnt going to chase everything down because he has a dodgy knee, he just muffled something to himself and shut up.
But you have to be patient. They played very deep and had 10 men behind the ball most of the game. Thus, the forward pass is not always on, so the players have a choice of tryng a very complicated forward ball that is unlikey to pay off or play it safe. You have to play it back and square to move the ball around and therefore creating the space etc. All good football teams (arsenal, barca etc etc) play the ball around the park, they dont always try and go forwards, because they realise that its not always possible.
Our fans booed because no one was moving about and plus it's all very well passing about but we have to take some risks. We were just too careful today and we did not get many shots.
The Tranmere players had a tactic to use is when we pass back hassle our defenders which they did for their goal. The more pressure we put on them the more chance we would of have scoring but we did not push on enough especially when we were counter attacking.
A team of 8 year olds can play keep ball in their own half. Especially against a team that have lined up to defend a lead. The second we tried to move forward we gave the ball away.
But when they take risks, and try and so something creative and it dosnt come off....they get booed....its a lose-lose situation for them. And I disagree, there was movement, but due to our players being league 1 standard, the man on the ball often didnt pick it up (its much easier to see runs etc when your sitting in a stand and have an overview...players on the pitch dont have that perspective....thats a major diference between good footballers and great footballers: vision
Lack of confidence.
Well I certainly think McOxo is playing above his station. There isn't a fwd pass between Oxo Racon and Semedo and until that changes we are going nowhere. I love Semedo for his attitude, commitment, work rate etc but he is part of the problem and I'm not sure we'd be worse off without him.
Movement in the second half was much better and it was reflected in the performance.
It's something that I was hoping would improve greatly with Damien Matthew involved, but obviously hasn't happened yet.
I do though think that it is possible to play simple football quite easily, all we are asking for is a little pass and move, and I think any professional player should be able to do that. Kids can be taught how to do that so why cant this set of players?
1. It allows you time and space to build a better attack where you have less chance of losing the ball and more chance of scoring.
2. It allows you to move the ball around, simultaneously building confidence in your own team whilst tiring the opposition who have to work harder trying to get it back.
3. If you're in the lead (I appreciate this isn't what we're discussing here) it its a good defensive tactic as they can't score if you're in possession.
There are two reasons for not doing it:
1. If you're running out of time and need to score, you might need a more direct approach.
2. If your fans are impatient idiots with the attention span of goldfish who think they understand the game better than the professionals who have spent a lifetime training to play it, they are likely to get impatient very quickly and start booing. Booing is a bad thing as it gives a slightly negative air to the match.
1. It allows you time and space to build a better attack where you have less chance of losing the ball and more chance of scoring.
2. It allows you to move the ball around, simultaneously building confidence in your own team whilst tiring the opposition who have to work harder trying to get it back.
3. If you're in the lead (I appreciate this isn't what we're discussing here) it its a good defensive tactic as they can't score if you're in possession.
There are two reasons for not doing it:
1. If you're running out of time and need to score, you might need a more direct approach.
2. If your fans are impatient idiots with the attention span of goldfish who think they understand the game better than the professionals who have spent a lifetime training to play it, they are likely to get impatient very quickly and start booing. Booing is a bad thing as it gives a slightly negative air to the match.[/quote]
Sorry.........but thats just bollox.
Football is a very easy game. To win a game of football you have to score more goals than the opposition. To do this you have to get the white round thing (called a football) between the three white posts (called the goal). As the three white posts (called the goal, remember) do not move, and are stationed at either end of the pitch ( an area of grass which the game is played upon) then it is usually a good idea that you do not keeping passing the ball between yourselves and try to get it going FORWARD.
In the words of that bl**dy meercat.............Simples !!
It is also usually a good idea to keep possession!