Post by merse on Dec 23, 2008 4:20:04 GMT
Dec 23, 2008 0:12:00 GMT Jon said:
It's funny that the "experts" were up in arms at Buckle playing a left-footed veteran midfielder at left centre back - and now Hodges is performing brilliantly in that role. I can see what Bucks was thinking in trying Hargreaves there. A left footer gives much better cover to Nicho, and an ex-midfielder gives a far more cultured feel to our play.
The other think I noticed on Saturday was how often Sillsy pulled out wide and how that stretched their defence to pieces and really opened them up. It's pretty obvious that sometimes things work and sometimes they don't - you can't win them all. I recall people moaning like hell at Sills pulling wide in games where we played badly and claiming that the tactics were idiotic.
Halle bloody lulyeah..........................two aspects I underlined earlier in the season and got absolutely castigated over!It's rarely that anything radical tried by a manager comes off straight away, far more it's when it's been worked on repeatedly and ad nauseum on the training ground far away from the baying morons that would have had "Buckle Out" after the opening salvos of a campaign nine months long.
In simplistic terms................the people objected to route one, and shouted "Sort It Out Buckle";
the manager tried to sort it out. Rome wasn't built in a day, so the people shouted "Buckle Out" What next, the people; is the manager STILL only picking his mates?
