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16 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Tindall clearly doesn’t have a clue, man. Lower league wind up merchant, not someone who should be remotely responsible for anything tactical.

I tend to agree. He's the guy responsible for our defensive setup as well I believe?

While other teams are bringing in specialist coaches to focusing on incremental improvement and details, we (one of the most ambitious clubs in the league apparently) are not.

 

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We are such a sloppy team.

 

Currently joint 2nd in the league with 10 errors that have led to a shot. In the entirety of 2022/23 we made 10 errors that led to a shot (4th best).

 

We're also 2nd in the league in number of times dispossessed (12.4 per game). This was 9.55 in 2022/23. 

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6 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

The central point is right though isn't it? Our set pieces are shite, and Tindall is the set piece coach.

 

I thought the central point was that "Tindall clearly doesn’t have a clue," and is a "lower league wind up merchant, not someone who should be remotely responsible for anything tactical."

 

Weird how these people are befitting of these labels now, whilst we've hit some ropey form, not when we were enjoying two of the best seasons in recent memory.

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5 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

I thought the central point was that "Tindall clearly doesn’t have a clue," and is a "lower league wind up merchant, not someone who should be remotely responsible for anything tactical."

 

Weird how these people are befitting of these labels now, whilst we've hit some ropey form, not when we were enjoying two of the best seasons in recent memory.

Decided to pop my head into this thread for the first time since Sunday and thats the first thing I saw. Can't imagine how bad it was Sunday evening, mental takes. :lol:

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1 hour ago, joeyt said:

Everton do that as well but it's more effective as Tarkowski is much better attacking them than Dan Burn who either gives away a foul or has no idea which direction he's heading it in

 

How could I forget them.  Absolute route one merchants! 

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24 minutes ago, Holmesy said:

I tend to agree. He's the guy responsible for our defensive setup as well I believe?

While other teams are bringing in specialist coaches to focusing on incremental improvement and details, we (one of the most ambitious clubs in the league apparently) are not.

 


Well we just employed a director of football and a performance director, and it sounds like we’re doing work on stats as well. Would expect further improvements of the technical staff. 

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25 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

We are such a sloppy team.

 

Currently joint 2nd in the league with 10 errors that have led to a shot. In the entirety of 2022/23 we made 10 errors that led to a shot (4th best).

 

We're also 2nd in the league in number of times dispossessed (12.4 per game). This was 9.55 in 2022/23. 

 

Yeah thats 1 thing that has infuriated me this season. We give up possession 1 way or another far to easily. 

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22 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

We are such a sloppy team.

 

Currently joint 2nd in the league with 10 errors that have led to a shot. In the entirety of 2022/23 we made 10 errors that led to a shot (4th best).

 

We're also 2nd in the league in number of times dispossessed (12.4 per game). This was 9.55 in 2022/23. 

 

Curious to know about 23/24.

 

Assuming that it's somewhere in between, it does indicate that our opposition has found out how to set up and press us. I know Eddie has talked about how they do tweaks and adjustments to the tactics all the time as a counter to when the topic of formations have come up in press conferences, but hopefully he's working on implementing more drastic changes to fix this. It wasn't a surprising stat to see based on how we've played and conceded goals this season.

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Based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I think he’s been used to running everything and that’s how he likes it. There may be an issue with adapting to the new hierarchy / arrangements and that might be being played out in sticking to his guns and being inflexible with tactics and selections and staveley leaving the set up has probably changed the dynamics dramatically in terms of how much agency he has over every aspect of the club. I could also be talking out my arse. 

whatever, the people who own us will inevitably be asking questions about why the money invested so far is not leading to targets being met. While this is not ideal at all I suspect they will be considering his position and options. they are businessmen and they will be thinking like businessmen and will not necessarily be open to the nuances of football and the complexities of it all. 

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26 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

I thought the central point was that "Tindall clearly doesn’t have a clue," and is a "lower league wind up merchant, not someone who should be remotely responsible for anything tactical."

 

Weird how these people are befitting of these labels now, whilst we've hit some ropey form, not when we were enjoying two of the best seasons in recent memory.

 

It was mentioned on Sky that we've had 50 corners without a goal, and apparenly if you add in cup games it's closer to 80. When you have a side of fairly big lads you don't think that's a bit concerning?

 

 

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1 hour ago, joeyt said:

Dan Burn who either gives away a foul or has no idea which direction he's heading it in

Can't believe how poor his attacking headers are. Actually crazy how few goals he's got for us considering the damn size of the bloke

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44 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

:lol:

 

Anyone think Newcastle might be a bit out of form atm?


The set pieces have been tragic for a long time, I’ve said this for months.

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5 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

It was mentioned on Sky that we've had 50 corners without a goal, and apparenly if you add in cup games it's closer to 80. When you have a side of fairly big lads you don't think that's a bit concerning?

 

Obviously it's a concern, what do you think I'm debating here? Us being deficient at set pieces doesn't mean our staff are lower league cloggers.

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5 minutes ago, Mahoneys Tache said:

Based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I think he’s been used to running everything and that’s how he likes it. There may be an issue with adapting to the new hierarchy / arrangements and that might be being played out in sticking to his guns and being inflexible with tactics and selections and staveley leaving the set up has probably changed the dynamics dramatically in terms of how much agency he has over every aspect of the club. I could also be talking out my arse. 

whatever, the people who own us will inevitably be asking questions about why the money invested so far is not leading to targets being met. While this is not ideal at all I suspect they will be considering his position and options. they are businessmen and they will be thinking like businessmen and will not necessarily be open to the nuances of football and the complexities of it all. 

If that does happen then the people in charge are completely clueless. What targets should we meet considering where we were and how much has been invested? From an investment point of view we are where we deserve to be. 

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10 minutes ago, Conjo said:

 

Curious to know about 23/24.

 

Assuming that it's somewhere in between, it does indicate that our opposition has found out how to set up and press us. I know Eddie has talked about how they do tweaks and adjustments to the tactics all the time as a counter to when the topic of formations have come up in press conferences, but hopefully he's working on implementing more drastic changes to fix this. It wasn't a surprising stat to see based on how we've played and conceded goals this season.

 

16 errors leading to a shot last season (0.42 per game). This season is 1.11 per game.

 

Dispossessed 10.5 times per game, which was 4th worst.

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5 minutes ago, macphisto said:

If that does happen then the people in charge are completely clueless. What targets should we meet considering where we were and how much has been invested? From an investment point of view we are where we deserve to be. 


In fact we’re ahead because we’ve already qualified for the champions league. 

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15 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

It was mentioned on Sky that we've had 50 corners without a goal, and apparenly if you add in cup games it's closer to 80. When you have a side of fairly big lads you don't think that's a bit concerning?

 

 

Are they only counting corners that are headed directly in goal? I have a vivid memory of a short corner move that ended up with Gordon whipping in a cross from the edge of the box that led to a goal at the end (or second half) of last season...? Or was it a free kick?

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Unforced errors, players missing passes and shots that they would normally bury in their sleep, being caught out of position.

 

There are too many examples and too many players guilty of this for it not to be in part linked to the tactics. We're talking the finest of margins in many cases and players not being comfortable with the shape and tactics will lead to these margins falling the wrong side. It's one of the reasons for the new manager bounce, they tend to come in and bring it back to being really basic.

 

I genuinely want to be wrong on this, but there are just too many things hinting towards Howe having peaked with us.

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1 minute ago, Conjo said:

 

Are they only counting corners that are headed directly in goal? I have a vivid memory of a short corner move that ended up with Gordon whipping in a cross from the edge of the box that led to a goal at the end (or second half) of last season...? Or was it a free kick?

 

Don't know the ins and outs of it, just heard it mentioned on Sunday then repeated on one of the social media channels. But even that example you gave there....it would be nice to see some inventive short corners mixed in given the balls lobbed towards Burn are inevitably going to end up skewing off his head into the stands.

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The thing with Howe imo is that he seems exactly the type of manager to review, tweak and improve his systems and playstyle, he seems very intelligent, thoughtful and intentional, imagine having a chat with him, asking him about if he'd consider something different as evidence is showing something not working 

 

And him just saying 'no'. Just doesn't add up

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33 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:


Well we just employed a director of football and a performance director, and it sounds like we’re doing work on stats as well. Would expect further improvements of the technical staff. 

Hopefully. I think it'll come down to whether Eddie wants one or not though, and the fact we don't currently have one suggests he doesn't? 

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