Quote Originally Posted by ncfcog View Post
Match stats analysis and a closer look at Aidan Stone …

https://www.ncs-news.co.uk/read/stat...ford-city-a-l2
We're winning, so it's working. Even so, I don't enjoy Stone's long balls OG, and I think you're a wee bit too positive about it in the report.

'Stone's distribution not only adds another dimension to Notts build up play but is also accurate with over 76% of his passes finding a team mate.' That means 24% don't. So 1 in 4 going awry and the figure includes all the short passes that always find a Notts shirt. I'd say that's quite a lot of giving it away, and it shows when the watching the game. There are a lot of punts going straight to the other side.

My read of it is LW is going for a pre-emptive disarming of other teams plans to mug us in our own half. If you can't play all that much, it seems like an easy way for teams with more brawn than guile to create chances.

Both Coleman and Wood boasted that they succeeded in making us hit it long. But I suspect they were disappointed with it, if so, that's 1 up for LW. Those sides don't seem capable of receiving the ball deep and putting together a great move all the way from back there. But if we get into this bad habit, we'll run into sides that can. I really don't think you can bring Didzy in at 35 and use him as some sort of target man.

My guess is that LW has been bitten so much by the mistakes at the back that he's reluctantly gone away from how he really wants his team to play. While we're winning though, we'll carry on. We might have stumbled across a winning approach - a possession team that boots it to the other team and then takes it from there