Quote Originally Posted by Notts78 View Post
There isn’t a football club in the world that plays in an unpredictable way. You don’t need analysts to tell you how a team plays.
There are too many variables to simply say, our style didn’t or doesn’t work and we should adapt. Watch Man City v Liverpool today. Everyone whose seen them play before knows how they play, and they will play the same way today.
IB was hugely critical of the work rate yesterday. Of the way we didn’t battle. The way we simply didn’t compete. That’s not tactics. It’s not even the managers fault. It’s the players. They clearly think they are better than what they are and didn’t do the simple things close to that expected of them.
I know there will be those who say IB picked the team. He picked the same team that’s done well in recent weeks.
My only real concern is whether that performance yesterday was the players way of showing support to Cal? Assuming there is an issue.
The problem we had yesterday is that we just couldn't pass the ball to our own man. Our movement off the ball was none existent, and we just didn't seem to want to win the game...Whilst the Torquay manager was bleating out instructions throughout, ours just stood there like a spare pri*k at a wedding...