Quote Originally Posted by jackal2 View Post
Great point. I saw and thought that too. What we saw yesterday might well have been a team beginning its transition to a more pragmatic style in terms of reducing the amount of time spent with the ball in defensive areas, and not yet confident in what it was doing. These things take time to get right, but it doesn't mean the plan is wrong. First half defensively I thought we did okay, hence the clean sheet at half-time, but in the second half both the players and the Head Coach seemed to have a collective seizure!
I’m not so sure. I think it stems from Stone being far more reluctant to play a short pass. Then as the game went on, the pressure came from the stands to gerrit forward.
It reminded me of the dark years where players would so scared to make a mistake, they wouldn’t take risks.