Ross and Harvie are two players that should be getting game time, instead of Consi****ingdine, Tansey, GMS etc etc
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Yesterday was the mother and father of total shambles.
Fair enough, Motherwell started well and had a few chances early on. That's not unusual for us - witness nearly every home game in the last few seasons where we start slowly and then take over and win. However, what happened yesterday was unforgivable. From minute 10ish onwards a procession of players were called to the touchline and given an instruction. From the looks on their faces as they trotted away, you could tell they hadn't a clue about what they were being asked to do. The game plan was out the window.
By phannying about, changing the formation after 10 minutes to counter the other team we end up creating absolutely nothing because a negative mindset takes over. We tend to get our best results playing 4-2-3-1 every game. I agree with the comment about McInnes tending to get the tombola out, especially after international breaks. Normally, he realises he's f@cked up and we go on a run. Hopefully, this is repeated after this mess.
One point that hasn't been mentioned yet .... in amongst the wreckage of that performance it's worth observing that we were still able to fashion 13 or 14 attacking set-piece situations - 8 corners and 5 or 6 free-kicks. I think I read somewhere that we were up there - 1st or 2nd for number of goals scored from set-pieces. Yesterday, the delivery was, not for the first time this season, absolutely woeful. Christie, Tansey, May; neither of them were able to deliver to an Aberdeen player on any occasion. Even though we were a complete mess yesterday, we could, and should, have made more of those set-pieces.
"They (Motherwell) played a system that we didn't expect them to play, that threw us a little bit at the start of the game..."
Outsmarted again and again and again.
I really don't know when last we've had such an over-hyped manager, mostly by Wegia.
Milne seems to absorb it & dish out unnecessary extensions IMO
& maybe McInnes himself has let it influence him.
There are more people on here that go down the "folk have short memories,McGhee, Patterson et al" route rather than that McInnes is very naïve tactically and has been found out a lot in his tenure. Yes we know hes a step up on McGhee, but we are where we are and we surely want to get better. We have a good squad on paper but it is not being used to its strengths. We are second when we have been poor on the whole. Play our team to our strengths with no tombolas or brain farts and we could have won more cups and pushed Celtic harder. But in big games he has a poor record due to appalling tactics especially against the pigs