O4tonygreen
Well-known member
Firstly, like most I am delighted where we have got to, and I love Neil Critchley and what he ha done for us as a team, and as a football club. Giving us back our pride in our team
However, he is not above criticism, and Saturday, but even more so today he and the team need to accept that this is just not good enough. No shots on target and a total lack of creativity (even no yellow cards too) is just not good enough for fans in our biggest local derby of the season.
I just don't get our tactics sometimes. Pass, pass, pass and getting nowhere. We had 60+ % possession but it was all in our own half. Dougall never looks for a forward pass and turns backwards all the time. Robson looked out of sorts, or out of his depth.
CJ and Bowler were woeful (Again for the 3rd match in a row), Madine is too slow.
I think that for the next 4 or 5 matches he needs to experiment, and give a few of the players a kick up the arse. Try Yates and Lavery upfront together and play a pacier game. I would happily accept £5m for Bowler in the summer and invest in a couple of quality attacking midfielders. Virtue would be good to look at over the next 4 or 5 games to see if he can add that edge.
Look to next season. Can we play without Bowler and Madine, Try Beesley, think of buying Clarke-Harris from Posh.
I'm trying so hard tonight to not be angry, and look at positives, but that was truly awful, which would be annoying at the best of times, but against a very poor PNE team it is even more galling
However, he is not above criticism, and Saturday, but even more so today he and the team need to accept that this is just not good enough. No shots on target and a total lack of creativity (even no yellow cards too) is just not good enough for fans in our biggest local derby of the season.
I just don't get our tactics sometimes. Pass, pass, pass and getting nowhere. We had 60+ % possession but it was all in our own half. Dougall never looks for a forward pass and turns backwards all the time. Robson looked out of sorts, or out of his depth.
CJ and Bowler were woeful (Again for the 3rd match in a row), Madine is too slow.
I think that for the next 4 or 5 matches he needs to experiment, and give a few of the players a kick up the arse. Try Yates and Lavery upfront together and play a pacier game. I would happily accept £5m for Bowler in the summer and invest in a couple of quality attacking midfielders. Virtue would be good to look at over the next 4 or 5 games to see if he can add that edge.
Look to next season. Can we play without Bowler and Madine, Try Beesley, think of buying Clarke-Harris from Posh.
I'm trying so hard tonight to not be angry, and look at positives, but that was truly awful, which would be annoying at the best of times, but against a very poor PNE team it is even more galling