madras Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 we used to have a plan where shearer would stand on the angle of the 6yd box for corners....cleared loads,not because he was alan shearer but because its a bloody good plae to have someone.....simple but effective. we had a few corners today and habib beye (one of our tallest and best headers of the ball) was one of the defensive 2 while duff and barton were in the box trying to win headers...does that make sense ? we have to stop slagging off the back 4 for the defending or the forwards for scoring...we were given a lesson today in the ideea that when you have the ball your whole team is attacking and when the oppo has the ball your whole team is defending. also ...see how many times in the first 20mins they played seemingly blind balls down our cahnnels to turn our defending ? why do we never do that ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmonkey Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 also ...see how many times in the first 20mins they played seemingly blind balls down our cahnnels to turn our defending ? why do we never do that ? We have no pace in the front 6. Duff has a bit of pace, but he only runs slightly fast in useless positions, ie when hes running up to a player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 also ...see how many times in the first 20mins they played seemingly blind balls down our cahnnels to turn our defending ? why do we never do that ? We have no pace in the front 6. Duff has a bit of pace, but he only runs slightly fast in useless positions, ie when hes running up to a player. rooney and tevez don't have pace but have nouse........thats what kills you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 also ...see how many times in the first 20mins they played seemingly blind balls down our cahnnels to turn our defending ? why do we never do that ? We have no pace in the front 6. Duff has a bit of pace, but he only runs slightly fast in useless positions, ie when hes running up to a player. rooney and tevez don't have pace but have nouse........thats what kills you. rooney is pretty fucking fast for someone who supposedly doesn't have pace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Rooney and Tevez both have pace. So does that Ronaldo guy as it happens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 their pace is up top....not on their feet,its not like rooney is a bellamy,granted hes quicker thatn viduka but you wouldnt mark pace as an asset (same for tevez) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Try sticking 11 turtles together and seeing if they get past 11 hares. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Try sticking 11 turtles together and seeing if they get past 11 hares. 11 clever turtles against 11 thick hares.........aesop as the ref...you know the result. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Remember ronaldo is faster than a Veyron Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 we have to stop slagging off the back 4 for the defending or the forwards for scoring...we were given a lesson today in the ideea that when you have the ball your whole team is attacking and when the oppo has the ball your whole team is defending. Not when you have a defender turning his back on a player like Ronaldo as he drives into the area onto a simple pass to score. Or a defender running accross a forward and flayling his legs hopelessly at the ball when he's the last man... Then you blame the defender.. in this case the same defender both times, Forest f****** Gump himself.. Of course you should defend and attack as a team as much as possible, but when you have players who make pathetic individual errors every week it certainly doesn't help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Try sticking 11 turtles together and seeing if they get past 11 hares. 11 clever turtles against 11 thick hares.........aesop as the ref...you know the result. relegation probably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Try sticking 11 turtles together and seeing if they get past 11 hares. 11 clever turtles against 11 thick hares.........aesop as the ref...you know the result. relegation probably. very good come back,short and pithy. but i hope you are wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Tevez & Rooney can ran faster than anyone in our first team bar 2 players. When they get into a good position or a yard of space they will not be caught.. same can't be said for Mr. Owen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 All I know is we are collectively slow as turtles and I predicted Man U would waltz round us as if we were statues in the pre-match thread. Well like night follows day... thats down to movement and nouse....not so much pace. Try sticking 11 turtles together and seeing if they get past 11 hares. 11 clever turtles against 11 thick hares.........aesop as the ref...you know the result. relegation probably. very good come back,short and pithy. but i hope you are wrong. I'm not trying to be funny, but I really do believe that to play Keegan's brand of football you need some legs in the midifield. You make the point in your original post that we need to defend collectively and attack collectively. For that you need midifelders who can get up and down the pitch and forwards in the box when the chances come. When Milner swung in that cross in the first half, where was Smith? Where was Barton? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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