Mowbray

[Omegstrat6]

To my mind, TMs biggest mistake has been a lack of consistency regarding selection. Even if I had not agreed with what he thought that his best team was, I would have accepted it and given the side a chance to prove itself. However, he kept chopping and changing, which made it very difficult for the players to adapt to any system or style of play.

Agree with you Leics. I think some of our more disjointed performances are a direct consequence of too much chopping and changing which are not due to injuries or red cards and you can sense a degree of frustration amongst the players themselves about this.

Of course you need a degree of flexibility to match specific opponents but this does not necessarily mean a change in personnel all the time and might be solved by tactical changes instead.

For a while we enjoyed success with both Fellows and Johnston on either wing getting down to the line to put balls in for Maja. Naturally, teams got wise to this and pretty soon both found themselves targeted by defences who put more than one player on them to blunt their ability to create chances. Does that mean that we then automatically swap them for Diangana or Grant? I'd argue not as I feel that Fellows and Johnston are still our best players for those positions. (I do, however, like Grant and feel he does well playing off the shoulder alongside Johnston).

Players build up understandings between each other which is surely a big part of any teams ability to create chances so too much switching about surely can't help.