Corberan and ‘Southgate’ football

[Bombers right foot]

Totally predictable, slow, boring no cutting edge, this type of ‘football’ bores me to tears, we are so easy to play against, teams watch Albion videos and see Plan A, player A passes to player B who passes back to player A who then passes to player C, rinse and repeat, Corberan has no plan B, todays game was a prime example, whilst we are playing 10-15 passes in our own half the opposition are back in shape, why not go to route 1 for 10-15 mins, or even speed play up, yes we have 16 points but apart from Leeds and Boro we’ve played nothing yet, Corberan needs to shape up and find a plan B, at the moment it’s too cautious and conservative and Mr Shileen might think so too, every manager has their limits, Corberan in my opinion has nearly reached his

[Grand Wazoo]

We ain't worth watching at home at the moment. Awful keep the ball but no forward thrust at the end of it. 2 goals in 5 games at home says it all. You can telegraph what pass comes next. Then when someone does make a good run no-one is alert enough to spot it because they have already made up their mind where they are gonna pass it, invariably sideways or backwards. One pass in the entire first 45 minutes split Millwall's defence and it produced our one and only half chance. Millwall defended like demons. Why on earth was Diangana left on for so long as he was having a mare. Blown off the ball so easily and then when he did get away from the player he played the wrong ball or gave it away. I felt for sure Millwall would rob him in the centre and break away and score at some stage even though they created practically nothing themselves they still had the best chance of the game in the first half when the guy completely missed a wonderful cross. To sum it up, it was sh*te.

[baggieal]

We ain't worth watching at home at the moment. Awful keep the ball but no forward thrust at the end of it. 2 goals in 5 games at home says it all. You can telegraph what pass comes next. Then when someone does make a good run no-one is alert enough to spot it because they have already made up their mind where they are gonna pass it, invariably sideways or backwards. One pass in the entire first 45 minutes split Millwall's defence and it produced our one and only half chance. Millwall defended like demons. Why on earth was Diangana left on for so long as he was having a mare. Blown off the ball so easily and then when he did get away from the player he played the wrong ball or gave it away. I felt for sure Millwall would rob him in the centre and break away and score at some stage even though they created practically nothing themselves they still had the best chance of the game in the first half when the guy completely missed a wonderful cross. To sum it up, it was sh*te.

Got to agree with you! It’s painful to watch! Quality spilts 10 opposition players behind the ball open! We can’t even pass properly unless it’s side to side.

It’s crap Carlos! Thought Dobbin looked decent when he came on but Racic and Wallace are a waste of space. Get rid of Wallace and Diangana in January and bring in a quality player who can dictate the game. We need another Pereira or Krov alongside Mowatt!

Johnston surprisingly looks really poor too!

[Dubbag]

May be the break might benefit us this time. No win in three.....time for a regroup.

[mickd1961]

We had 79% possession today but the problem is that most of it is outside the final third of the pitch.

Too many pointless passes backwards and sideways in our own half.

The fullbacks were both far too deep for most of the game, they need to get forward to allow Fellow’s and Johnston the space to play inside and create havoc, the obvious pass out wide to Fellows and Johnston was too easily defended.

I don’t think we play the ball into Maja’s feet enough, he’s plenty capable of playing with his back to goal and bringing runners onto the ball but at present, if he’s not on the end of a cross or a cut back he’s pretty much null and void.

I know this, Swift is part of our best eleven.

I also know this, Diangana isn’t!

[Bombers right foot]

Might be good to stop passing the ball to Bartley, the guy slows play down at every opportunity to do his arm waving

[Prando]

Frustrating game today. We continued our painful sideways and back passes and clearly lacked any alternative plan to pick the pace up.
Millwall were well drilled in how to play against us and we lacked creativity.
Whilst I am pleased to be within the top 6 after 9 games, the recent performances are showing us in a poorer light.
To be fair, I didn’t think anyone really played badly, be we were bereft of ideas with this ingrained short passing out from the back.

[boingy]

Give Millwall credit. They defended superbly to a man. Also watch some of the other teams. Burnley were awful the other day. Sunderland are top and in their last six games won 3 drawn one lost two, identical to us. None of them are having an easy time of it. Corberan is a top manager in this division and sometimes sideways football is because of the other team stopping us playing and doing it very well. QPR didn’t, Millwall did.

[SwedishBaggie]

I think playing away and home are two different issues. When we play away the home team is not ”allowed” to park the bus, which gives us opportunities (as eg vs QPR). When we play at home the opposition parks the bus, and we don’t seem to have any solutions to how to break that down (so far).

[baggieal]

Give Millwall credit. They defended superbly to a man. Also watch some of the other teams. Burnley were awful the other day. Sunderland are top and in their last six games won 3 drawn one lost two, identical to us. None of them are having an easy time of it. Corberan is a top manager in this division and sometimes sideways football is because of the other team stopping us playing and doing it very well. QPR didn’t, Millwall did.

Nobody is not saying Millwall don’t deserve credit - they do! That said it’s up to us to open any opposition up and you’re only going to do that with quick movement and passing. Did Boro faff around with sideways mundane football? No.

We definitely need a playmaker and I like JM but he’s not it! Swift should start and God knows why he takes Fellows off who has pace to replace him for Wallace who is slow and past it.

Last three games we have got selections wrong and reverted to the boring sideways football seen last season.

Nobody is not saying Carlos is not a top manager but the football in the last three games has been utter s hite!