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I don’t half miss the days under McClaren when we used to be able to make more than 3 passes without giving the ball away.
Good passing is what opens teams up. 

If all we intend on doing this season is having the wing backs whip balls into the box we’re in for a very long season.

Good teams have many ways to penetrate the oppositions defence, crosses into the box shouldn’t be all we depend on.
Bird is wasted playing where he did on Saturday, his strengths are reading the game, breaking up play and finding the ball the gets us back on he counter attack. We need some creativity behind the two strikers, someone that can run at defenders and creates space for the strikers. I’m sure Sibley can do that.
And on the defensive side of things, when one wing back pushes on the other should drop back to make a 4, over committing players forward like we did Saturday left us wide open to the counter attacks.

I don’t half miss the days under McClaren when we used to be able to make more than 3 passes without giving the ball away.
Good passing is what opens teams up. 

If all we intend on doing this season is having the wing backs whip balls into the box we’re in for a very long season.

Good teams have many ways to penetrate the oppositions defence, crosses into the box shouldn’t be all we depend on.
Bird is wasted playing where he did on Saturday, his strengths are reading the game, breaking up play and finding the ball the gets us back on he counter attack. We need some creativity behind the two strikers, someone that can run at defenders and creates space for the strikers. I’m sure Sibley can do that.
And on the defensive side of things, when one wing back pushes on the other should drop back to make a 4, over committing players forward like we did Saturday left us wide open to the counter attacks.

I don’t half miss the days under McClaren when we used to be able to make more than 3 passes without giving the ball away.
Good passing is what opens teams up. 

If all we intend on doing this season is having the wing backs whip balls into the box we’re in for a very long season.

Good teams have many ways to penetrate the oppositions defence, crosses into the box shouldn’t be all we depend on.
Bird is wasted playing where he did on Saturday, his strengths are reading the game, breaking up play and finding the ball the gets us back on he counter attack. We need some creativity behind the two strikers, someone that can run at defenders and creates space for the strikers. I’m sure Sibley can do that.
And on the defensive side of things, when one wing back pushes on the other should drop back to make a 4, over committing players forward like we did Saturday left us wide open to the counter attacks.

I watched the game back and had a different impression from Saturday.

Derby dominated the first 30 minutes of each half and created chances. No-one played particularly badly.
Two awful mistakes - which you'd like to think won't happen again this season, let alone two in one game. We should have had a pen and a free-kick on the edge of the box in the first half - Lord knows why they weren't given. (There was also that corner we should have had but that's splitting hairs...)
Subs came too late - Fozzie's good chance came on 67 minutes, Wigan scored from nowhere on 72', subs came on 79 minutes. Two or three subs at 60 minutes, straight after the equaliser, would have made all the difference, especially given how dangerous Kane Wilson looked.
It was also concerning that from 80 minutes onwards any build-up down the middle was abandoned and all they did was frantically knock it wide for the cross.
Cashin is being asked to do too much. Nelson looked pretty comfortable coming forward and played some decent attacking & cross-field passes. Cashin can't cross for s*** and gave the ball away too often.
I was pleased their heads didn't drop after conceding the way they did. It was a frustrating game and a disappointing result, but I'm still optimistic for the season. I don't think this is the crisis it's being made out to be.

Lee CFC 
The Korean for me
Na Na Na Na

Pressing as high as we did against Wigan left a massive gap and left us vulnerable to the counter attack. 

I don’t think it’s the formation that’s the problem it’s how it’s being applied. 

3 at the back works, however, when 2 of the 3 seem to have been given permission to join the attack (Cash and Nelson), the MF has to cover when they do bomb on. When they don't cover we are susceptible to quick breaks from the oppo as happened yesterday...

He just doesn’t bother with the blackcurrant pop!
 

Pressing as high as we did against Wigan left a massive gap and left us vulnerable to the counter attack. 

I don’t think it’s the formation that’s the problem it’s how it’s being applied. 

Pressing as high as we did against Wigan left a massive gap and left us vulnerable to the counter attack. 

I don’t think it’s the formation that’s the problem it’s how it’s being applied. 

Pressing as high as we did against Wigan left a massive gap and left us vulnerable to the counter attack. 

I don’t think it’s the formation that’s the problem it’s how it’s being applied. 

Pressing as high as we did against Wigan left a massive gap and left us vulnerable to the counter attack. 

I don’t think it’s the formation that’s the problem it’s how it’s being applied. 

Thank Christ for that 

Ajax (Netherlands, not Belgium) for £17m (not pennies)

He actually signed for Ajax
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66401124

Smith
Waggy
Left back
Battling midfielder 
Sorted

Smith
Waggy
Left back
Battling midfielder 
Sorted

He seems a very genuine bloke.
I think he’s started to put together a very capable looking squad. 
He was playing his cards close to his chest which I don’t blame him for, he’d be foolish if he didn’t. 
He knows as well as we do that we’re probably 3-4 players short of a squad that could go on to compete for automatic promotion. I trust his judgement on picking the right players and like how he talks about them having to have the right character.
 

Stopped reading halfway through, get to the point pal.