Originally Posted by
nw6pie
Well, I think from Tuesday and today combined, we may have had 1 shot on target (though I'm actually struggling to remember if we had that many). There's been a complete lack of zip and energy to our play, as if the players are trying to remember what they should be doing rather than just doing the basics that should be second nature to them.
Contrast that to Harrogate and York, who had game plans and stuck to them. Makes you wonder what the hell we're doing in training. We managed to give York a closer game last season even after all the chaos of the summer!
There was an interesting story on the Football Weekly podcast this week about Roy Hodgson and how his training is all based around repetition - so that when it comes to match day it's just drilled into you what to do. Watching us attempting our tika taka and intricate flicks today, it struck me that we were making it up as we went along - hence the fact that so little came off.
Players were popping up in the most unlikely areas - I too couldn't understand why Enzio was "challenging" their player when a hopeful cross came in for the first goal. Makes you wonder if it was Neil Cox who worked more on drills and coaching with the players than NA. Alas, our efforts at total football ended up as total crap football.