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Whalley Red · 09-09-2012, 16:14

That's four home games this season and we have been outplayed in all of them. I don't see this will bring in the floating supporters.

FWIW I didn't see anything wrong with Cooky's 'go long' strategy. Podge doesn't have anyone to knock the ball onto, so it's not important that he only won one header all game (which got a cheer!). We had better success with the ball out to Rommy until they changed their full-back.

But these are League 2 defenders which means that their clearance headers are not going to be accurate all the time. Some of our best chances came from poor clearance headers from 6'7'' Luke Oliver. The big disappointment for me was that we had a five-man midfield, so should have won a good proportion of these 'second-balls', but we didn't. Will Hatfield looked isolated in the midfield with Rommy and Molyneux playing very wide and Joyce & Miller playing so deep. If we are to adopt a 'go long' stategy again, we need to be much more compact in midfield IMO.

09-09-2012, 16:14	#28
Whalley Red Full Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 669 Liked: 82 times Rep Power: 1652	Re: Bradford City Pre-Match And match Day Thread That's four home games this season and we have been outplayed in all of them. I don't see this will bring in the floating supporters. FWIW I didn't see anything wrong with Cooky's 'go long' strategy. Podge doesn't have anyone to knock the ball onto, so it's not important that he only won one header all game (which got a cheer!). We had better success with the ball out to Rommy until they changed their full-back. But these are League 2 defenders which means that their clearance headers are not going to be accurate all the time. Some of our best chances came from poor clearance headers from 6'7'' Luke Oliver. The big disappointment for me was that we had a five-man midfield, so should have won a good proportion of these 'second-balls', but we didn't. Will Hatfield looked isolated in the midfield with Rommy and Molyneux playing very wide and Joyce & Miller playing so deep. If we are to adopt a 'go long' stategy again, we need to be much more compact in midfield IMO.