Times nearly up

[WBA123]

As I’ve stated on a previous thread, I don’t blame our drop off in form purely on our tactics. Yes, some of Carlos’ selections I have not agreed with but last night’s eleven was as good as it gets and yet another underwhelming performance. Too many individual mistakes and the wrong options are being made. Mowatt’s mistake v.Luton, Swift’s mistake last night which should have led to a goal are examples of this. The number of easy passes that go astray, again, are not the coaches fault.

In our opening half a dozen or so games we were excellent, yet basically the same players are now not producing that form. It is they, who have to take responsibilty for this and not just Carlos.

I'm kind of torn on this. On one hand, yes the players are not creating enough or being clinical enough, that is true.

On the other hand the choices they make are bizarre. We win free kicks in dangerous positions and instead of crossing it in, we take it short and it ends up with the centre halves or Goalkeeper. And you can use the same example in open play too, many times we get in a good position to cross or deliver a ball in and we drop it back playing the 'safe' ball. That direction must be coming from the management team.

We have to play the percentages better. Why not put any free kick we win in the attacking half into the box with the centre halves up? Why not let Furlong take long throws from the other side? And please, please work on something a bit different on set pieces...getting our best corner taker (Which is Swift, without doubt) on every corner would be a start.

So I think its a combination of both the players being toothless in attack and being told to play it safe when they're in dangerous positions by the manager.