renno
30-07-2017, 08:07 AM
Not posted for a while. Yesterday was the first preseason game I've been able to get to
The biggest thing I noticed is we seem to have lost our identity - this was evaporating at the back end of last season as well. We no longer seem to get the ball into the channels quickly , press teams high up the field and run ourselves into the ground. You can do this without having an abundance of championship quality players. We seem to have resorted to the modern method of overplaying the ball and frankly it doesn't suit us. Also, if you don't have the quality for it you will get punished even more at this level.
PH is the brightest manager we've had in many a year but I think we need to do less of the tippy tippy stuff as we'll be having 70% possession and still losing!
I think the score line flattered Rotherham to a degree - it highlighted our lack of backbone if nothing else.
The post match interview highlighted PHs frustrations but I think it was also some much needed mind game buck your ideas up call to players. Had we won 2 or 3 nil we would have gone into next weeks game as fans thinking everything was hunky dory. The result could be a blessing in disguise.
The biggest thing I noticed is we seem to have lost our identity - this was evaporating at the back end of last season as well. We no longer seem to get the ball into the channels quickly , press teams high up the field and run ourselves into the ground. You can do this without having an abundance of championship quality players. We seem to have resorted to the modern method of overplaying the ball and frankly it doesn't suit us. Also, if you don't have the quality for it you will get punished even more at this level.
PH is the brightest manager we've had in many a year but I think we need to do less of the tippy tippy stuff as we'll be having 70% possession and still losing!
I think the score line flattered Rotherham to a degree - it highlighted our lack of backbone if nothing else.
The post match interview highlighted PHs frustrations but I think it was also some much needed mind game buck your ideas up call to players. Had we won 2 or 3 nil we would have gone into next weeks game as fans thinking everything was hunky dory. The result could be a blessing in disguise.