Posted by Supporter on September 19, 2009, 10:44 pm, in reply to "Re: City 1 Tiverton 0"
I agree with the majority of what you you have both said, although I think the 4-1-4-1 would owork if Fordy allowed the likes of Bell, Brookes and Pond to push on and support a lone striker. Too often today all you heard was Ford telling the Pond not to push on but to stay in the midfield and Brooks and Bell to stay wide. Whoever the 1 is can't win headers and then chase the flick on!!!
I prefer the 4-4-2, as it seems do many others, but none of this years pairings up front seem to be able to work off each other. As for Fisher returning I can't see that will improve the team in any way, his form is that of someone who simply thinks he's better than this club and his lack of effort is very evident in my view. Leave him out and give Mark Janes a chance, he looks like he wants it and gives a bit of pace to a slow attack - the sort Michael Lyons gave us, though not quite as quick.
Fordy, lets start playing footy on the deck, get your wide men attacking defences and your midfield supporting them - scoring goals wins games, brings in supporters and keeps them happy. Don't play the "stale mate game" of stop the opposition scoring and hope we nick one, like today. Football should be fun for both spectators and players, your tactics are boring the pant's off both parties.
--Previous Message--
: Quite a boring game with neither side creating
: any real chances, still Fordy insists on
: again starting with a 4-1-4-1 formation
: which the players seem unable to play or
: understand. Like last weeks game after
: changing to a 4-4-2 formation City looked
: more lively and started to control the game.
: Come on Fordy no one will criticise you for
: realising your starting formation does not
: work and change to a formation more suited
: for the players you have to work with.
: Anyway the players give their all especially
: the defence and overall deserved the 3
: points.
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: --Previous Message--
: Not sure whether to question Mike Ford's
: initial team selection or praise his
: substitutions, but City wouldn't have scored
: in six hours against a well-organised Tivvy
: defence today while playing Craig
: Faulconbridge on his own up front. Craig
: needs a partner to flick or lay it off to,
: and with no-one else there, all City's long
: balls forward were wasted. This made for an
: utterly tedious first half. In the second
: they kept the ball down and passed it more,
: though quite a few passes were still going
: astray, even from Sav. It wasn't till Lee
: Steele came on that we started to look
: lively up front, and by that time poor Craig
: was tiring. Mark Janes was a bfreath of
: fresh air. Great ball from Liam, who had a
: good game, to set Mark off on the run that
: led to the goal. Cool finish by Lee stood
: out in a game where everyone else seemed in
: too much of a hurry.
:
: Good performances from Clarke, Gunn and
: Baird meant that Tivvy didn't get many
: chances to score and it was pleasing to see
: Andy G. returning to form, looking very
: solid. Overall, man of the match for me was
: once again Andy Baird--what a good start to
: the season he has had, in a rich vein of
: form at the moment at both ends of the park.
: But a number of others were off the pace
: today so we struggled to beat a team below
: us. At the end I suppose we just about
: deserved the win because we were the better
: team in the second half, but it was a close
: call. I don't want to be pessimistic, but
: I'm sure most people watching today (and
: there weren't many there, certainly not 200)
: will agree that if we play like that again
: next week our cup run will come to an abrupt
: halt.
:
: Still, by then maybe Fish will be back and
: fresh, and Andy Ballard returned from injury
: so there will be some competition for
: places. Today we couldn't even fill the
: subs' bench!
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