Quote Originally Posted by Derbymiller View Post
An awful first 45 mins, I think they were scared to play football and hoped to keep it tight until the second half. All three goals were mistakes and shocking marking, we desperately need a left back Bramall is not championship level, unfortunately mt doesn’t think we do, so we will how long before the penny drops. That was not a captains performance by Morrison, absolutely awful, his own performance and that of his organisation skills. 3 at the back doesn’t suit us. Midfield looked like a load of blokes that just met in the car park, Cafu had a poor first 45 mins but improved after the break, he was unlucky to be dismissed, however his style of play means that will happen a few times. Hugill needs to look in a mirror, if he thinks that is what is needed from a centre forward then god help us, Kelly caused them more issues than Hugill would have done if he was still playing. The lad from wolves was good and we were better second half, but that was the only highlights. The bench was very poor, this squad is six players away from not being beaten like that a lot. Hall was missed a lot as our set piece defending was terrible, what has the new coach been teaching them. Also why oh why do we kick every ball from the goalie long, numerous times today a simple pass to a defender was on, to play out from the back. We have to improve a lot and try to create something to score a goal from open play, we look shocking going forward today. 45 games to go but that squad is relegation and I think we all know that, three players will not be enough.
I'd agree with all of that DM except I'd push back the LB comments-
Bramall had a reasonable game yesterday except the silly yellow card
The first goal was admittedly scored by Stoke's RB but Bramall had been pulled over to mark someone else and there was an overload because neither Wiles nor Cafu got back - this was actually a problem too much of the time but Bramall stood up pretty well
When we switched things second half and Fred played on the left for a bit, we actually matched Stoke (except for Cafu getting sent off)
But the second and third goals and the cross for the first goal all came from us not having a RB - Fred & Haks were constantly out of position and torn wide open - I don't blame them - they clearly had no idea what they were doing and weren't properly prepared
When Peltier was on the pitch, we had a RB and somehow Stoke didn't look nearly as dangerous

So I think that 3 players would do the job if MT does his job - for me yesterday was all about really, really poor management

For me, we need to go 4-5-1 (I thought this before Stoke & now I'm more certain than ever)
Viking (obvs)

Peltier/Dexter - Perm any 2 fit CBs- Bramall (we need to sign cover, unless we can rely on Bola)

Fred - Ollie - Cafu - Jamie - Green

Georgie


midfield will hopefully have Tiehi for back up - Wilesy could be a sub but we'd do better to get any cash that we can
Up front try to move on Hugill or Eaves (I don't see much difference between them TBH) and keep the other to warm the bench with JJ

That line up would have done better yesterday (OK, you'd have had to play someone else instead of Jamie but at least people would have been in positions they know & not, as you rightly said like a load of blokes that just met in the car park)

I know it's heresy but we don't play a system that suits Wilesy - we should take whatever is on offer for him...