04-04-2018, 08:34 AM
my 2 cents worth.
midfield was where it all fell down. not enough pressure, running, skill etc... all teams attack and defend through the midfield, and when the midfield is down, everyone else suffers.
we're building a midfield almost from scratch. We were missing these blokes, and it hurt : Kreuzer, Kennedy & Lang will play the majority of games in the coming years you'd think. And these kids are good quality and need more games under their belts : SPS, Fisher & Dow. And we need these guys to come on and turn out to be good solid players atleast : Cunningham & O'Brien.
we're still too shallow with talent & experience in the middle to afford to lose 3 mature midfielders, while also carrying kids like Dow & Polson. the fact they selected those kids ahead of more reliable and seasoned types like Kerridge & Graham tells me the coach / match committee is still in development phase. they're trying to pump games into kids still.
as impatient as I am, I have to accept we're still not quite ready to move up the ladder yet, especially not with the little run of injuries in the midfield. I think the club already has the bones of a pretty good midfield, but 3 didn't play, and some need more time to develop. and they need to show a bit more pressure and intent or it won't matter who's in the team. atleast that can be fixed sometimes in as little as a week. we need patience grasshoppers.
It was a pretty horrid game, so bad it took me 4 days to think of something positive to say.
midfield was where it all fell down. not enough pressure, running, skill etc... all teams attack and defend through the midfield, and when the midfield is down, everyone else suffers.
we're building a midfield almost from scratch. We were missing these blokes, and it hurt : Kreuzer, Kennedy & Lang will play the majority of games in the coming years you'd think. And these kids are good quality and need more games under their belts : SPS, Fisher & Dow. And we need these guys to come on and turn out to be good solid players atleast : Cunningham & O'Brien.
we're still too shallow with talent & experience in the middle to afford to lose 3 mature midfielders, while also carrying kids like Dow & Polson. the fact they selected those kids ahead of more reliable and seasoned types like Kerridge & Graham tells me the coach / match committee is still in development phase. they're trying to pump games into kids still.
as impatient as I am, I have to accept we're still not quite ready to move up the ladder yet, especially not with the little run of injuries in the midfield. I think the club already has the bones of a pretty good midfield, but 3 didn't play, and some need more time to develop. and they need to show a bit more pressure and intent or it won't matter who's in the team. atleast that can be fixed sometimes in as little as a week. we need patience grasshoppers.
It was a pretty horrid game, so bad it took me 4 days to think of something positive to say.