Plan B

[IPieWithMyLittleEye]

Nit sure if it constitutes a plan B, but most teams in L2 when needing a goal late on will go direct and launch balls into a big guy in the box. It's rather primitive but actually quite effective. Even if the target man doesn't win the header, the second ball is up for grabs in and around the area. We just don't do that.

Imagine if we'd been leading against Wimbledon with 15 mins to go. They would have absolutely bombarded our goals until we inevitably crumbled. When we needed a goal, we changed nothing.

Wimbledon were bombarding Notts box with long balls/long throws all game anyway. For them this would basically be do plan A better. No way they would have switched it up and played possession football if it wasn't working for them, which would be legitimate plan B.

Whichever way a manager turns it's a stick to beat him with. Look at Amorim at Manchester United, he sticks Maguire up front for the last 5 minutes and gets criticised either for not having a different plan B (when it does work) or not doing it sooner (when it doesn't).

Maynard did try different things. 3 changes at half time Vs Salford. Playing Bedeau as wing back away at Port Vale to get more physicality in the side as two such examples. Unfortunately it didn't work out when he tried it, which may explain why he stuck to what he believed in.

[ThaiPie]

Plan A, Plan B.
Lazy language. Search previous posts from many posters.

[OchPie]

I think when I say Plan B I mean "something that unsettles the opposition and forces them to take an alternative approach to countering us". It didn't feel like, over the two legs of the play-offs, we really forced Wimbledon to change the way they approached us. True, if we'd scored one of our chances in the first leg, that might have been different - but equally, we were really struggling to score the chances we had (as we had most of the season).

[Med Pie]

I think when I say Plan B I mean "something that unsettles the opposition and forces them to take an alternative approach to countering us". It didn't feel like, over the two legs of the play-offs, we really forced Wimbledon to change the way they approached us. True, if we'd scored one of our chances in the first leg, that might have been different - but equally, we were really struggling to score the chances we had (as we had most of the season).

Or vice, versa.

[ThaiPie]

I get you Och Pie. It's just that in a game I think all good and bad managers, will try different tactics, players, instructions, fake injuries, gamesmanship or lucky dances.
The idea that if the original gameplan A, isn't working, then only good coaches have the wit to have.....a plan B.😂 It's just too simplistic.
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