Match Thread vs. Woking 02.10.21 [NL]

[the_anticlough]

Not sure if you comment re Francis is tongue-in-cheek or not. But, one of the issues, in my opinion, yesterday from midway through the 2nd half was how cheaply/quickly we gave the ball away. We actually needed someone to slow the game and just retain possession. Funny that a common criticism of Notts in recent time has been keeping possession without any purpose. This would have been ideal yesterday.

I haven’t seen enough of Francis yet. But I believe in having a holding midfielder (one) home and away. It allows the full-backs to get forward with guaranteed cover behind them. Who was holding yesterday? Don’t believe JOB can do the JOB and it’s a waste of Palmer. That was one of the flaws in the team picked yesterday and I suspect it proved costly in terms of control of the game. Francis doesn’t have many fans, but my guess is that he’s better than no natural holding midfielder at all

[Killerkline]

I haven’t seen enough of Francis yet. But I believe in having a holding midfielder (one) home and away. It allows the full-backs to get forward with guaranteed cover behind them. Who was holding yesterday? Don’t believe JOB can do the JOB and it’s a waste of Palmer. That was one of the flaws in the team picked yesterday and I suspect it proved costly in terms of control of the game. Francis doesn’t have many fans, but my guess is that he’s better than no natural holding midfielder at all

Palmer played deeper and, although he’s more than capable of playing that role, we lose something going forward.