Quote Originally Posted by TSANHO View Post
You have to ‘turn’ the other teams lines somehow. Passing sideways and backwards, like others said, is so easy to defend against. Palmer and Ruben and JOB, to an extent, have the courage/vision/skill to do that. It’s also Baldwins biggest strong point in my eyes….he can drive forward and turn the oppositions midfield, leaving us with massive overloads further up the pitch. For a while under Burchnall that’s also what Brindley started doing….now a days the ball is a hot potato to him. In fact the whole team look low on confidence, creating a vicious circle where they don’t want to take risks so the fans get on their backs and then the players play even more within themselves….and then Meadow Lane turns into a very dark place indeed.
Scoring goals wasn’t and still isn’t an issue, yes we will have games where we can’t break down teams but that goes for every team in the country.
Palmer is probably the player most wouldn’t want to see see get injured, he’s Mr consistent and basically makes the team tick firing balls around and also works hard to get it back. It was never going to the case we would have someone not in the team that could come in and do that to his level.
We just need to get to Jan and hopefully pick up a few points on the way.
Stockport have spent a hell of a lot of money and got off to a flyer but even their having a bad patch now, we just need to ride it and bring in 2 or 3 and reignite the group.