MCLF: HEY! RELIVE THE GLORY!: Match report v Ipswich

Getting hammered now, feeling better. Thank you Bacchus.
Thanks, well written as always, if a little gentle on our team. I like the way you put your pre match and half time thoughts into the mix in such an honest way.
I guess it’s just one of those nights when you wonder why you didn’t just support a big club like everyone else (there might be a lot this season).
Roll on next week.
 
Getting hammered now, feeling better. Thank you Bacchus.
Thanks, well written as always, if a little gentle on our team. I like the way you put your pre match and half time thoughts into the mix in such an honest way.
I guess it’s just one of those nights when you wonder why you didn’t just support a big club like everyone else (there might be a lot this season).
Roll on next week.
Maybe I was gentle, dunno, I'm not into slating them for the sake of it but it's odd. Gabriel was great second half but yet he was probably to blame for 3 of the goals. He probably made most mistakes but also left one of the more positive impressions on me. I thought Ward was the weakest link today but he wasn't *that bad* - just totally innefective as an attacking force. Keshi was poor too in same way. Actually thought Marvin did fine.

It looks like a side devoid of confidence not a side of crap players. It's the risk they're not taking that worries me as much as the mistake they are making.

They pass but without real purpose and go backwards a lot, they invite pressure without pressuring. It's so different from the swarming confident swagger of pre season. I don't think they're not trying, more that they're not sure what they're trying to do.
 
I think it was a mistake to play this game to start with. We were clearly not quite ready for this type of challenge yet. A behind closed doors friendly would have been much more useful IMO.
I am beginning to think this system is not right for the players we have at the moment, and we are probably short of the right type of midfield player and possibly striker.
On the plus side we probably have some great wing backs if he ever decides play three central defenders, and in Turton and Husband two decent full backs for a four man defence, and the window isn’t quite shut.
Not sure the manager is being flexible enough yet, or ever though?
 
I think it was a mistake to play this game to start with. We were clearly not quite ready for this type of challenge yet. A behind closed doors friendly would have been much more useful IMO.
I am beginning to think this system is not right for the players we have at the moment, and we are probably short of the right type of midfield player and possibly striker.
On the plus side we probably have some great wing backs if he ever decides play three central defenders, and in Turton and Husband two decent full backs for a four man defence, and the window isn’t quite shut.
Not sure the manager is being flexible enough yet, or ever though?

Yep, I honestly wish him the best but I think some are over excited about us playing 'how the top teams play'

You should play the way that suits the squad and they aren't getting what to do now.

Yes, time to gel, but perhaps simplify it, get solidity and a bit of confidence. They're not shit players. Keep it a bit simpler and they'll gel quicker.

We might be bottom at Xmas than embark on a perfect 23, who knows, but what I worry is that if he doesn't get something tweaked in the way we play, he lose the squad's belief in what he's doing with them.

It's not about 'abandoning a project' - it's about recognising that confidence needs foundations too.
 
TD. Some good observations again and as you have already said we usually see things similarly but maybe slightly to generous overall. Absolutely agree about Gabriel though.
I've got to keep believing that it's first term at big school with the newly qualified teacher, everyone's nervous and a bit frightened of the bullies in year 11 but that doesn't usually last forever.
 
I'm not sure where I'm generous in that tbh. I think perhaps the bit at the end where I'm trying to be optimistic gives a false impression of my view of the performance. It was flimsy in the extreme.

The fact all I could find to say about Keshi was he tackled himself I think sums it up.

I might try waiting a bit to write the next one and see how it comes out after a bit of time and reflection instead of a more minute by minute thing.
 
Great last paragraph mate ...

Fuck's sake Pool. Sort it out. What else have we got in this shite year of shite years?
Next week. It'll click next week. Maybe they just need a right good bollocking, maybe they need to just go for it, maybe they need some of the new players to get match fit and some of the injured ones to return. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
C'mon Pool. You're better than this.
 
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