Signing Backgrounds

[Bridg4d_Pie_]

This. I think it's the system. I mentioned Effiong the other day - 17 goals last season at Dover, including proving himself a difficult customer against us.

He comes to Notts and says he is having to learn the new system, new runs to make and new places to be, and now he looks a shadow of his former self.

The manager is slavishly devoted to his system, trusting the processes and the patterns of play he always speaks about, but then in his post match interview against Kings Lynn laments how they brought a big man on up front and put our centre halves under pressure and almost inevitably got a goal.

So why is it that when we put our (objectively decebt) big man on, instead of making a goal inevitable he can barely control the ball or stay on his feet?

Tactics are interesting message board fodder but maybe we are over complicating things. We've got good players for the level - does anyone really think performances and results would be any worse if in the dressing room before a match we gave them a simple but effective game plan and wound them up?

Moot point really as we will persist with filling their heads with algebra and 'calming them down'.

Well you are missing a point about Roberts for sure, he has played in the Premier with Newcastle.