A Bird's Eye View
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:43 pm
I flew in on Saturday, and perched on the floodlight pylon, nearest to St Mark's church, and looked towards the sky, perhaps hoping for divine intervention from above,but it didn't work.
How can we go from a team flirting with the playoffs to floating above the relegation places? Well its a combination of lots of reasons, and circumstances,with injuries to key players, players playing out of position,new players arriving and getting used to our style of play, but most of all our style of play.
Visiting teams know how we play, when you have a confident team, and trust in each others awareness playing out from the back can be rewarding, but lately,we spend more time in our own half, passing it sideways and back to Charlie.When we eventually get the ball to midfield, we either lose it by getting tackled or pass it to the opposition, nobody is running into space or screaming for the ball,also it takes so long to get there, that any visiting teams have the time to organise their defence.On Saturday, we were running around like a shoal of fish, no wide man, midfield getting overun, couldn't hold the ball up. I felt for the team, and for Mark, we are better than this, there is talent in this team too, but just for a while we need to change tactics and play the long ball more often, and take the game to them.
How can we go from a team flirting with the playoffs to floating above the relegation places? Well its a combination of lots of reasons, and circumstances,with injuries to key players, players playing out of position,new players arriving and getting used to our style of play, but most of all our style of play.
Visiting teams know how we play, when you have a confident team, and trust in each others awareness playing out from the back can be rewarding, but lately,we spend more time in our own half, passing it sideways and back to Charlie.When we eventually get the ball to midfield, we either lose it by getting tackled or pass it to the opposition, nobody is running into space or screaming for the ball,also it takes so long to get there, that any visiting teams have the time to organise their defence.On Saturday, we were running around like a shoal of fish, no wide man, midfield getting overun, couldn't hold the ball up. I felt for the team, and for Mark, we are better than this, there is talent in this team too, but just for a while we need to change tactics and play the long ball more often, and take the game to them.