Chris_Boro
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Absolutely fine against teams of the same standard but when theres a chasm in class its lunacy
Flipping to a style of play that your entire squad (what's left of it) is not suited for, is as well.
Absolutely fine against teams of the same standard but when theres a chasm in class its lunacy
You can't just lump it either without an outlet, it's just as careless.
The likes of clarke and fry are not suited to the slide rule pass out from the back thats my whole pointPFlipping to a style of play that your entire squad (what's left of it) is not suited for, is as well.
The likes of clarke and fry are not suited to the slide rule pass out from the back thats my whole point
They managed pretty well in the first leg and the goals weren't just down to them Hackney sold Barlaser down the swanny for one, Howson and VDB score OGs. The difference was the intensity of the Chelsea players and their pace to close down quicklyThe likes of clarke and fry are not suited to the slide rule pass out from the back thats my whole point
I'm not sure it is though. It might not have been as pretty to watch but I think playing it into the channels and maybe trying to use Rogers pace against a 39 year old could have been effective and stopped us conceding about 4 of those goals.
I'm a hundred percent behind the way we play generally but tonight I knew beforehand that playing out from the back would be very dangerous. It wouldn't take any coaching for players to play the ball into the channels and go direct, they'll have all played that way before.
I love Carrick he's the best thing to happen to Boro in donkeys years but he's not infallible. We got it wrong tonight.
Intensity is the one thing we don’t have, Saturday was a big example of our lack of intensity.We are so one paced at times and spend time passing the ball around at the back and across midfield,allowing the opposition to regroup.They managed pretty well in the first leg and the goals weren't just down to them Hackney sold Barlaser down the swanny for one, Howson and VDB score OGs. The difference was the intensity of the Chelsea players and their pace to close down quickly
The likes of clarke and fry are not suited to the slide rule pass out from the back thats my whole point
We gave a chelsea team low in confidence gift after gift we gave it to them on a plate. A more pragmatic approach and we wouldn't have got such a thumpingThey are not suited to hoofball either and neither is the rest of the squad.
Imaging an alternative reality where your opinion is a better option doesn't make it so. We could just as easily have been battered just the same.
No doubt with many then making the reverse criticism.
We gave a chelsea team low in confidence gift after gift we gave it to them on a plate. A more pragmatic approach and we wouldn't have got such a thumping
Haven't they just won 8 out of 9 at home?We gave a chelsea team low in confidence gift after gift we gave it to them on a plate. A more pragmatic approach and we wouldn't have got such a thumping
It's this the same Chelsea who haven't lost at home for six games. Is that the Chelsea you mean.We gave a chelsea team low in confidence gift after gift we gave it to them on a plate. A more pragmatic approach and we wouldn't have got such a thumping
Actually.....ultimately no difference between a scrappy 1-0 or a 6-0 battering.
So you're saying that a team should only ever have one way of playing? That they should never, ever try to adapt and use different tactics when their normal style of play clearly isn't working? That they should only ever have a plan A and never a plan B? Sorry, but I don't agree with, or believe in that point of view.Playing out from the back is what we do. To swap and change this because it doesn’t work occasionally is not the way forward. You either commit it 100% or you find a different way to play. I am fully behind this and it will win us more games than we lose. Too many dinosaurs about shouting for us to ‘just get rid of it’. Didn’t work tonight but we do exactly the same against Sunderland please.