lcfc81 Posted 16 February 2009 Posted 16 February 2009 Not have the fine details of the data at hand to assess I'd say a whole lot of factors could contribute to those figures without affecting my argument one bit. But I truly wish I could run a film back to you because there would be no doubting my point then. And no-one is denying that the centre-backs, Hobbs in particular, might have retained possession for some time what with Swindon generally being concerned with getting their men behind the ball and the oft-referred to "surgs forward" of Hobbs. However, time and again, when he and Morrison finally passed the ball, time and and again it was a floated 30 yarder which was easily anticipated and mostly won by the opposition. There was one run in the first 10 minutes when it happened five or six times in succession. I got sick of counting and asked the guy in my neigbouring seat to watch just in case I was seeing things. Our distribution is almost bound to be worse without Tunchev but surely the manager can simply instruct the centre-backs to play the ball simply and make themselves available for a possible return rather than floating it forward and giving the ball away because they are not good enough to float the ball accurately and consistently over that distance. What makes it worse is that Howard is the only potential target and the opposition quickly knows that. Fryatt is not one to win the ball in the air, nor is he fast enough to race off the last defender and home in on goal. None of the players who occupy the flanks are aerial playes nor particularly fast either so the whole idea of lofted passes is limited ecept when Howard is winning everything, holding the ball up and feeding therunners from midfield which simply wasn't the case yesterday. This is one reason I like reading your posts as they are always well thought out and backed up with an attempt at justification which is more than most city fans!. Felt a bit guilty after I posted it because you're probably the last person I would direct the 'lazy comment' tag to! Just feel alot of people use 'distribution' and 'hoof ball' as easy get outs from actually commiting to a well thought out comment on our centre backs. Then other people jump on the bandwagon. I personally don't think too many teams I have seen have had any better disribution than our CBs in a division people have hailed teams for playing more 'football' than the teams in the championship last year. Just to clarify I don't think you have jumped on the bandwagon, I think I'm a bit like you are with King and Porter with Hobbs and Morrison and am just hoping people leave them alone to develop.
lefox Posted 16 February 2009 Posted 16 February 2009 I voted defence.. 2 reasons: 1. Sometimes their inexperience shows, powell etc coudl help us calm this 2. Their distribution is shocking.
davieG Posted 16 February 2009 Posted 16 February 2009 A range of options along the lines of might have been better Our defending Our breaking up of play Our build up play Our creativity Our finishing
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