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9 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:

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Stop giving free passes out ffs. Rosenior had us playing it along the ground (sometimes frustrating how often the centre backs had it) creating absolute buckets of chances but just unable to take them. With the same squad. 
 

Bird, Knight, Hourihane, McG, NML, Barkhuizen, Cashin, Wildsmith are all excellent players at this level. Let’s not pretend it’s the same as the predicament we were in last season.

It’s not a free pass. It’s reality. Rosenior knew that too, he spoke about the imbalance of the squad and that it would take time. We have no right backs, we only have two aging strikers, all of our central midfielders are pretty much the same type of build and approach to playing the game. 

Your point about Rosenior getting them creating chances is mirrored in what Warne has done with the squad and rather than making your point actually disproves it. Warne has had the squad creating loads of chances and taking them at times this season, and not so much recently. Which sort of reinforces the deficiencies in the squad. Warne has got us winning away from home which is a good improvement on the last few years.

 

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Just now, Caerphilly Ram said:

It’s not a free pass. It’s reality. Rosenior knew that too, he spoke about the imbalance of the squad and that it would take time. We have no right backs, we only have two aging strikers, all of our central midfielders are pretty much the same type of build and approach to playing the game. 

Your point about Rosenior getting them creating chances is mirrored in what Warne has done with the squad and rather than making your point actually disproves it. Warne has had the squad creating loads of chances and taking them at times this season, and not so much recently. Which sort of reinforces the deficiencies in the squad. Warne has got us winning away from home which is a good improvement on the last few years.

 

That simply isn’t true. Our xG was higher than the oppositions in every match under Rosenior. It’s not the case now. 
 

We’ve genuinely had matches where we haven’t had a shot on target under Warne…

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Just now, Caerphilly Ram said:

It’s not a free pass. It’s reality. Rosenior knew that too, he spoke about the imbalance of the squad and that it would take time. We have no right backs, we only have two aging strikers, all of our central midfielders are pretty much the same type of build and approach to playing the game. 

Your point about Rosenior getting them creating chances is mirrored in what Warne has done with the squad and rather than making your point actually disproves it. Warne has had the squad creating loads of chances and taking them at times this season, and not so much recently. Which sort of reinforces the deficiencies in the squad. Warne has got us winning away from home which is a good improvement on the last few years.

 

g help GIF

I don't think your ever going to win this argument! :)

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5 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:

We’ve got some very technically gifted players in this division. We’ve got very little power and even less pace. 
 

Which of the two styles should be leant towards until squad is shaped appropriately. 
 

I’ve not ignored patterns of play. There aren’t any. The general tactic was ‘don’t concede. Give it to McG or NML and hope they beat 2/3 players or do something special’.

Rewatch Monday’s game and you will see Smith sitting in midfield in front of the back 3 breaking up play and doing the simple stuff, then the front 6 passing and moving and creating chances. Hourihane and Barkhuizen combined down the left several times so it wasn’t all McGoldrick and NML as you say.

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Just now, Rammy03 said:

It is. Did you watch any of the games in that long unbeaten run? Saying there was no pattern of play is just wrong. You must have been choosing not to see it.

I wanted to see it. I want him to be a success despite my cynicism. There wasn’t patterns of play. You know this because there’d still be the same patterns of play now but just done more poorly due to low confidence/poor form. This isn’t the case.

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