⚽ Match Thread vs. Chesterfield FC 20.08.22 [NL]

[Notts78]

Obviously what he wants and is justified is to have a better team, squad than Chesterfield, for a club of our size, standing.

Chesterfield can probably afford a better squad than us after saving money through furlough.
My gut is that we are being ran to a budget whilst Chesterfield and Wrexham throw money at it.
Yesterday and to a large degree the season to date, we have under performed. Yet we remain unbeaten. The squad we have can’t play the system being implemented IMO. We don’t have wing backs, yet play a full back and a winger in what is a specialist position. I put in another thread about the system, and with the current squad the system that IMO would suit us more (4-3-3). How we have a player like Ruben and we can’t him on the ball enough is beyond me.

[nw6pie]

Chesterfield can probably afford a better squad than us after saving money through furlough.
My gut is that we are being ran to a budget whilst Chesterfield and Wrexham throw money at it.
Yesterday and to a large degree the season to date, we have under performed. Yet we remain unbeaten. The squad we have can’t play the system being implemented IMO. We don’t have wing backs, yet play a full back and a winger in what is a specialist position. I put in another thread about the system, and with the current squad the system that IMO would suit us more (4-3-3). How we have a player like Ruben and we can’t him on the ball enough is beyond me.

Exactly this. You play 5-3-2 when you have exceptional wing backs who can defend and attack equally well. I like Chicksen's attitude, but I've yet to see an attack-minded wing back in him who makes things happen. Nemane, conversely, is a winger who struggles with the defensive side of the game. Taylor blows hot and cold, and who knows what Toby is like.

There can be something very passive about 5-3-2 when you don't have the right players for it, which we clearly don't. I'd go for a flat back four, midfield three of Palmer, Rodrigues and the hard-running, ball-winning midfielder we still don't have (and I don't think Vincent is the answer either), and a fluid front three of Langstaff, Scott and Austin.

[the_anticlough]

The squad we have can’t play the system being implemented IMO. We don’t have wing backs, yet play a full back and a winger in what is a specialist position. I put in another thread about the system, and with the current squad the system that IMO would suit us more (4-3-3). How we have a player like Ruben and we can’t him on the ball enough is beyond me.

Exactly right. The playing and recruitment philosophy is the club's, but I don't think that would extend to formation. 3-5-2 with wing-backs is trendy and the EFL/NL are copycat leagues, so I think it's the choice of successive coaches (the players picked it for NA!)

The mystery comes when the club as a whole fails to accept that we've failed to recruit for it to a promotion-level. Our Head Coaches are then like kids at Christmas, who have the Play Station but only a couple of rubbish games to play on it and the money's run out for any new ones. They'd be better off going back to the train set until there's enough to buy a decent game or two.