The Tad Late Wycombe Thread - Page 3

football19 · 16-12-2012, 19:57

Meat and potato I presume !!!

Jeg Red · 16-12-2012, 20:36

Very disappointed yesterday. I can accept the fact that the team put out yesterday were inexperienced with an average age of 23, but I can't accept what appeared to be a lack of heart and confusion in what players are being asked to do.

Our team isn't good enough at this level to be without a more experienced outfield player or two and I urge the management team to think seriously about this in every team selection as I fear more outcomes like yesterday if not.

The spine in every team is fundamental and when I look at our team, we're weak in 2 of the 4 spine positions - whilst possessing some natural ability, Toto is a liability as you're not sure what he's going to do next, and whilst Amond's work rate cannot be faulted, his chance conversion rate is not good enough and the ball just doesn't stick when it goes up to him.

The formation should also be reviewed as 2 forwards working in tandem a more effective than a lone man.

I fear we're in for a long winter

Revived Red · 16-12-2012, 22:01

I wasn't there yesterday so perhaps I should not comment - but I will.

I don't share much of the negativity I read in some posts. I want to state what I see are the positives - in no particular order. The first is the Liddle/Molyneux partnership which gives us a left side as strong as any I have seen in League 2 this season. The second is George Miller who is emerging as a strong and inventive midfielder. The third is Rommy Boco, especially when playing in a central role.

What I perceive to have changed in the recent games I have seen is that where once Moly or Liddle would attack the opposition and cross the ball, there is now a tendency to stop, cut back and play the ball infield to Joyce or Miller. It is less obvious on the right because we don't have a settled combination there. But when Rommy and Craig Lindfield have been on the right, they too have been cutting back. This, of course, slows down any attack and gives opposition defenders the chance to regroup.

It seems to me that wingers are having to cut back because we do not have enough players in the correct positions quickly enough to attack crosses.

I'm not going to mention how porous or strong the defence is. That is irrelevant - what matters is that we score as many or more than the defence concedes.

As far as personnel are concerned, I think we must leave out Podge. James Beattie would be an automatic choice and it always seemed to me that Will Hatfield had the ability to be in the right place at the right time in the penalty area. If Beattie is unavailable, we really must have someone who makes life difficult for centre backs. As I and others have said, Peter Murphy fits the bill.

Yes, we are going through a sticky patch. I, for one, am confident that we will emerge from this and we will ultimately have a safe mid-table position.

cashman · 16-12-2012, 22:12

At this moment in time us scoring as many as we concede aint very likely, the defence was that bad yesterday.

so to me our weakness yon is relevant. I am also confident we will emerge from this, but fer me youth is no excuse fer rank bad defending.Leam needs to educate these lads P.D.Q.

cashman · 16-12-2012, 22:50

We could do a lot worse than get Hughes back in Jan. imho.

yonmon · 17-12-2012, 11:46

With regard to the dearth of goals which many Stanley fan has been bemoaning lately, can I, as one who admittedly doesn't have the Soccer nous of a Football19, Shakermaker, or, dare I whisper the name.... Cashy !, offer to our young Manager who some HAVE unkindly described as 'inexperienced', a few words of seasonal advice which he might want to pass on to his strikers...

1. Shooting - to be good at shooting you have to do shooting. If you are unable to do shooting then you won’t be able to do it well.
2. Kicking - Shooting uses a kicking motion. Practice your kicking motions in order to become more adept at the kicking part of the shooting process.
3. Kicking the ball - Crucial. If you kick air, a person, or any other object other than the ball, the ball is unlikely to move. You need to kick (see point 2) the ball to shoot.

See it's that simple really !.

Happy Christmas Leam and Co !...and a successful and injury- free 2013 !!.

yonmon · 17-12-2012, 13:33

Spotted at training !!..... Three potential defenders, not yet having been issued with kit !!... facing Lee Molyneux free-kick's at their trials....( Where they were all found guilty !).

p.s, Do I spot a lookalike on the back row ?.