Next up, Friday night away to Alloa

[Noddydog]

Last night definitely disappointing. Delivery in final third definitely poor, but possibly made to look worse because we rarely made the transition into the final third quick enough, so Alloa time pack out defence and make it difficult to find a telling ball. I think in these situations you either need a lot of pace to turn their defence, or players with good close control and good creative passing ability to cut a way though. We fell between two stools. With no McMullan or Appere, which might gave given us more pace, we needed creativity, which having 2 defensive mids failed to give us.

[Eamons_lost_wig_04]

Last night definitely disappointing. Delivery in final third definitely poor, but possibly made to look worse because we rarely made the transition into the final third quick enough, so Alloa time pack out defence and make it difficult to find a telling ball. I think in these situations you either need a lot of pace to turn their defence, or players with good close control and good creative passing ability to cut a way though. We fell between two stools. With no McMullan or Appere, which might gave given us more pace, we needed creativity, which having 2 defensive mids failed to give us.

pretty much my thoughts.....our tempo didnt help everything was so slow and predictable.

3 mids but not one of them can create or find the telling pass in behind,none looked like they wanted the ball either...and we were sat so deep when the might Alloa pressed us! Our onLy real "wide man" keeps coming inside which gives opposition defenses time to set themselves as they see the ball and the men in front of them.
We lack pace down the flanks for sure and relying on our full backs may work some of the time in this league but wont if we do make it up a level with the full backs we have.Games lIke this make me wonder why we let Stanton go now.
Our best team is decent but without them on the pitch we dont have much on the bench to change games imo especially pace/width/creativity.
With a striker like Shanks in the box it was criminal the standard of crossing and wide play....and yes he should have scored the header at least but the guy cant bale us out all the time.

Massive game on Friday now!!Lose and its bottle time......

ps manager needs to waken up with his selections and formation to....frustrating as...!!

[Arabknight]

Will wait and see what happens fri. Get beat ICT will gain confidence, ours may plummet and we could well just limp over the finish line. Win confidence will be up and any aspirations teams below have of catching us will well and truly be dented/lost. Last season did we nt end up collecting more points than county between January and end of season? there’s still a long way to go though and team tactics/formations needs to be better.