Post by Jon on Mar 19, 2024 12:23:48 GMT
Good article from the excellent Torquay Talk :
torquaytalk.com/2024/03/19/tt-blog-talking-tactics-by-mark-hirst/
Obvious to everybody but Downes that we are just inviting the opposition to walk through us.
Good point made about how the back three spreads, so we end up with two full backs and just the one centre back in Tomlinson.
I know many have lost patience with Tomlinson, but our formation really is throwing him to the lions expecting miracles from him. No wonder he fails - he has been set up to fail.
That shape back three might work if you had say a fully fit Asa Hall playing as midfield anchor. He could drop back and make a second centre back alongside Tomlinson if Marshall / Booth and Moxey are playing slightly wide.
But we have got McGavin as our deepest midfielder. He hasn’t got the nous or the energy to drop back. Strolling past McGavin and Tomlinson is hardly like breaking through a formidable barrier, is it?
Missing a centre back may be suicidal, but what use do we make of the extra man it gives us? Not a lot. Stobbs is stuck in no man’s land not defending but not having the freedom to really get forward. Jude-Boyd is excellent but limited in what he can do on the wrong side.
We are leaking goals and not creating that much at the other end.
Crying out for a tactical shake-up. Aaron Downes is not the man to do it.
torquaytalk.com/2024/03/19/tt-blog-talking-tactics-by-mark-hirst/
Obvious to everybody but Downes that we are just inviting the opposition to walk through us.
Good point made about how the back three spreads, so we end up with two full backs and just the one centre back in Tomlinson.
I know many have lost patience with Tomlinson, but our formation really is throwing him to the lions expecting miracles from him. No wonder he fails - he has been set up to fail.
That shape back three might work if you had say a fully fit Asa Hall playing as midfield anchor. He could drop back and make a second centre back alongside Tomlinson if Marshall / Booth and Moxey are playing slightly wide.
But we have got McGavin as our deepest midfielder. He hasn’t got the nous or the energy to drop back. Strolling past McGavin and Tomlinson is hardly like breaking through a formidable barrier, is it?
Missing a centre back may be suicidal, but what use do we make of the extra man it gives us? Not a lot. Stobbs is stuck in no man’s land not defending but not having the freedom to really get forward. Jude-Boyd is excellent but limited in what he can do on the wrong side.
We are leaking goals and not creating that much at the other end.
Crying out for a tactical shake-up. Aaron Downes is not the man to do it.
