DavesaRam

I’m glad you didn’t use the phrase “young boys”!

Collins is the wide player. Unless he is in midfield!

Collins to start, then.

I didn’t know we’d signed Elder’s mate? Was it recent? Or a recommendation from one of the players (presumably Elder), like Waghorn was?

Is “the integrity of the competition the reason it gets called “The Nobody Cares Cup”?

Nope - sorry. Tactical nouse? Sorry you’ve got me there. What is it? - Paul Warne (allegedly).

Someone said on another thread that hoping things will improve given the evidence do far is like waking up knowing that your house is on fire and staying in bed and hoping that the fire will go out by itself.

Actually, at the “meet the players and coaches” forum Hourihane said “if you don’t play Paul Warne’s way, you don’t play”. In other words the players gave to do what they are told. As he is the manager, telling the players how to play is part of his job. And when there is a clearly identifiable pattern of play (in our case get it wide and sling it in) it is obvious that the players are being told to play like that. And saying so is not beyond the bounds of what is permissible.

We did have an on-form striker. But he was sat on the bench while we brought an out-of-form striker on instead.

He’s smoked ya!

I shouldn’t laugh at that, but it is really funny! 👍

So Paul Warne thinks we were “smoking them”, whatever that means, but if we hadn’t equalised they would have “smoked us”. Well actually Warne has “smoked us” instead. As I said earlier lots if people on here think we played well, with many thinking we played “on the floor football”. The truth is he got us playing football into midfield, at which point we reverted to type by going wide and flinging crosses in, to a single striker who is shorter than all the defenders. At least Warne realised, and replaced him with Collins, who is only taller courtesy of him wearing his hair in a quiff at the front. 🙄 We allegedly had an absolute feast of shots on goal, but I must ask how many saves did their keeper have to make? And how much of our apparent good play was actually our good play? And how much was it that Crewe let us play like that obecause they knew that as sure as eggs is eggs and Paul Warne is Paul Warne and we would revert to depending on crosses which his gargantuan defenders would cope with easily? Or: can’t score for toffee? I know what: let’s leave who, in Warne’s own words, is the best finisher at the club on the bench, only reluctantly bringing him on because Nyambe got injured. Our strikers struggling against giant defenders? What about Browne? He knows what it is like to score regularly. And if you could convert him into bricks, you could build a very impressive outside building of a certain type! But no, lets go with the shorties instead. Yes we did keep the ball on the floor towards the end, which is when we finally started to threaten. But even then we were taking too many touches before trying to feed the ball through, so we were still letting their defence get into place before trying to create something. And when Sibley did get on, we didn’t give him the ball and ket him run at the defence. No, it was still going out wide to be crossed in. But Sibley did get an assist, steering the ball to Hourihane when it would otherwise have run through to yet another Crewe defender. So in his last 3 or 4 games Sibley has scored 2 goals and got 2 assists. So why is he still getting dumped to the bench? After Tuesday night we were all full of beans, not because of Warne’s tactical genius, but because he let the players do what they are good at. Maybe he had finally got the message and the corner had been turned. I had my doubts at the time, and was right to do so because today was same old, same old. Albeit with a slightly different coat to make it look like football, but it was still Warne-ball. DAMM!

Which game was he watching?

Yes. We got a variation on “whack it wide and lump crosses in to no-one”. This time it was play football for the first two thirds, then sharp right or left to whack it out to the wings to lump in crosses to no-one. So nothing mew really, apart from Paul Warne outdoing people on the forum for tactics, because loads of people think we played a possession-based game of football played on the ground. The two main times we kept the ball on the ground resulted in the two goals. That’s about it, really. Nothing has changed.

No quite a lit go to the far post where we also have no one, or they go right out to the far wing. Where we have no one.

That wasn’t a foul by Smith but actually I don’t care

Only because Nyambe was injured

We must work on that on the training ground, because Cashin is great at heading the ball over from crosses and corners.

Cashin coming on. That should open the floodgates.

Our body language is terrible

Ward for Nyambe, Wilson for Smith Sibley for Barkhuisen

A bit like Crewe do.

Tell him we need to play football through the middle

It is almost certain that Collins will come on. We need another guy out on the wing!

It won’t need a second Crewe goal for that. Thousands of pointless crosses are whst we do, all by ourselves