Originally Posted by
tarquinbeech
I am not a huge buddy of Elite, as everyone knows, but in this case he is spot on.....how the heck can you have a discussion about recent form spiraling into the doldrums, without mentioning the fact that Yates, arguably our best player of the first half of the season, along with Jones, Grant and possibly Aless, was removed to S****horpe 4 weeks ago?
It also coincided with his Forest buddy, Grant, turning into Hawk Mk ll ie running around aimlessly having no effect on the game....we have tried filling his considerable boots with Husin, a few silky touches and a decent long~distance strike.....Noble, I am worth £100k....Virtue, AH signed me from Liverpool, his life~long ambition....Milsom, I was ****e last year but won a new contract in the Club raffle.....have I missed anyone?
Our system was quite simple, as CrazyKels likes to point out to me and several others, hoof the ball up to our aging "strikers", this relieves pressure in our half....then let the midfield SCRAP for the knockdowns and leftovers.....Yates loved to scrap and chase and harry the opposition....it worked for 4 or 5 months with spectacular results....then everyone else figured out our genius plan PLUS Yates was removed.....Nolo has tried desperately to plug the loss and even tried to tinker with the gameplan.....judging by our last 4 or 5 league games, apart from Crewe, he still has not found a solution, apart from telling the players that he has had enough.....we will see on Tuesday.