Post by merse on Apr 22, 2009 19:02:46 GMT
But how many more games were fans expected to remain patient merse, if it had been just one or two more game then we would not have anything to play for on Sunday as we would be out of the play-offs and a few points to far behind.
So what would you have preferred then? stick with it as it was and just get even further behind. You say that Hodges is the best passer out from the back, it seems to me all who play there are told to huff it up field and try and aim it toward Sills.
The way it should be played is the shorter pass to a midfield player who then looks at what option's he has. Such passes are far more easy to perform than trying to hit a fifty yard ball, that ends up more in hope of finding another player wearing the same shirt.
Its how its meant to be played Merse, yes during games the long ball can and should be used, but if as you suggest we have no one apart from Hodges who can deliver such a good ball from the back, then why do we not play to the players strengths we have and keep the passes much shorter.
I've not criticised the fans for being impatient I have state they ARE impatient. that was in response to a statement that they should show patience in letting young players like Green and Caryol develope. I was stating a FACT to underline an opinion. My opinion on them showing patience is that they have no track record of such benevolence.Graham Westlake was enduring just the same sort of knee jerk reaction to his development of his side at Stevenage at the same stage of the season, yet BOTH managers have seen their efforts bear fruit in getting their sides to a challenging position lasting to the last week of the season. Surely that is justification alone in my stance that the manager should be left alone to do his job and judged over athe complete time it takes to develope his squad. There is no black and white about the science of football management..................some things work, some don't.
There is no "should be" way to play either. There is a popular way, an aesthetic way; but there are also pragmatic ways and necessary ways to ensure that in each game a bridgehead is established from which (hopefully) games can be won.
That bridgehead is often much sooner reached when playing sides who share the will to win and positivity of approach to ourselves as the games at Burton and Stevenage recently showed, but if sides stubbornly string two rows of four and five in front of their penalty areas and try to hit us on the break then there is often no alternative than to attempt to "turn them round" by hitting balls over the top without giving too much of the midfield away territorially. All the short passing in the world will not get through that tactic.
No side in the BSP is good enough to play just the way they want and only the way they want. They all have to compromise the aesthetic for the pragmatic at times; yes even Burton!
