Originally Posted by
Balanbam00
For sure many fans are very upset.Yes we are in a free fall.But unlike many I would like to see some first steps made to improve the team.You may know my thoughts, but here again.We are giving the ball away too much!!! That is we do not control the game, the opposing team controls the game much more than we do. So for me, we are playing a stupid game of football! The style we are playing 'hoof' the ball up field is all wrong! It has been said that Pope now feels in a 'comfort zone', but so does S D !
Some point's are:
When Pope takes a goal kick,all our players go up into the opponents half. Even if our players get the ball ,they have 1-3 seconds,to do something with it ,but some fans have said, we are slow, no real skills etc. Then our solution is to open up the field more,to have 5-10 sec to control the ball and do something with it.'Open up the game'! .
The 2 backs have to stay on our goal line,not to advance. Pope must pass the ball to one of the Back line. That means an attacker is 10 yards away at least from our player and ball. If they want the ball come and get it! So the attacker must run 10 yards to attack our player,to get the ball. (Behind that attacker a hole or gap has now been created). Meanwhile the ball can be passed to Pope, he has the choice to pass to the other back,or to pass the ball where that hole or gap has been created. The Half-Back has now much time to do something, and more important, we control the game at this point and the ball is in our possession and we are attacking! ( Much better than hoofing the ball up field and with luck we can do something with it )You may say ,''but that's changing our game ,how we play!'' May I say in the year 1955 -57, Burnley played with a short corner ,simply our forwards were small,they found a solution! Let them try that, if it does not work ,then lets buy new players !
This we must try on the training ground,and perfect it,there is no scope to err!. Some may say, ''that's fancy stuff'' ,no its playing with logic. Of course, Pope can mix it ,by kicking up field ,once or twice ?