The goal on Saturday was laughable. Drag Clarke up the pitch, ping it in the space behind him and score.
Re: the defensive line, I think this probably was Fry playing to instruction. Wilder has always favoured this approach although admittedly players should have the intelligence to react to on-pitch situations.
The big issue for me in playing a high line with this squad is that we haven't got the legs in midfield and defence to win the ball back quickly, putting the deepest defenders under immense pressure.
Time and time again this season we've been caught up by opposition turning over the ball a long way from our goal and within a couple of passes they're clean through. Our pressing has a lot to answer for.
It's one of the reasons I'm cooling on Corberan - he played an even riskier press at Huddersfield (albeit with a young squad full of pace and energy) - if we tried that we'd get battered every week.
Yes, don't get me wrong, the tactic is to press play up the pitch with a high line when we have the ball, but when we lose it we can't be stood on the half way line, it's basic common sense.
Their lad had a long time on the ball before anyone reacted, even look at the highlights, the string for that highlight shows them in possession the entire time, it doesn't show us losing the ball which gives a good example of how long it took us to react.
Fry only made it back between half way and our goal in the entire time it took them to win the ball, run with it, play the pass and for Gyokeres to run through and score. There was enough time there to block that route off or stop the ball going through if we hadn't been asleep as a back line, and that's the defender's job to react. Wilder wasn't telling them to hold the line at halfway, if we had lost the ball and they were in possession.
Whoever was organising the defence (Fry?) dropped Dijk in it, by basically saying we're holding this line, you get over from RCB to cover LCB, and if they play a ball over the top it's your problem. It's poor, we shouldn't have had a line at halfway with one LCB up the pitch and Gyokeres operating on the LCB's side.
Agree on the lack of legs in midfield, this is where Tav used to bail us out box to box, and also pressing like mad.
High pressing works great, but the defenders need to be clever and switched on, and if they're not quick they need to step off 5-10 yards to narrow the gap between defensive line and where the keeper can realistically sweep out to.