At home playing 4 1 4 1 (2 Viewers)

[SkyblueBri]

I don’t understand why MR thinks this will work it leaves the forward playing on his own marked by 2 defenders. So the ball constantly keeps coming back in our direction and the forward can only try to head the ball onto himself!

 

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[Terry Gibson's perm]

Just play four four two and stop worrying how the opposition set up

 

[SkyblueBri]

Just play four four two and stop worrying how the opposition set up

If only we would !

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

99% of the people who go on a regular basis seem to think we must play 442, because all the other systems seem to fail.
We are quite obviously all wrong.

 

[Otis]

Doesn't work with 1 up front. Well, not when that 1 up front is JCH.

 

[Ashdown]

Doesn't work with 1 up front. Well, not when that 1 up front is JCH.

Dreadful player with a worse attitude. Thinks he's a gangster not a footballer.....but then keeps throwing himself to the floor like a fairy !

 

[Johnnythespider]

Even when we were 2 down we had one up front, what is Robins frit of.

 

[skyblueeyesrevisited]

Doesn’t matter what formation you play when your players cannot pass to a team mate, cannot tackle and cannot hit a barn door from 5 yards.

 

[CanadianCCFC]

Burge
Willis Davies Hyam
Sterling bayliss Doyle Kelly Thomas
2 strikers

 

[oucho]

Burge
Willis Davies Hyam
Sterling bayliss Doyle Kelly Thomas
2 strikers

Urgh wing backs......get out!

 

[Sick Boy]

Dreadful player with a worse attitude. Thinks he's a gangster not a footballer.....but then keeps throwing himself to the floor like a fairy !

His behaviour towards the steward at Southend during and after the game said a lot about him.

 

[clint van damme]

Doesn't work with 1 up front. Well, not when that 1 up front is JCH.

If you play one up front he either needs to work the channels or he needs to hold the ball up and bring others in to play. He doesn't win anything in the air either, (apart from in our box, he's good defensively), not that it would matter because there's no one within 20 yards of him even if he does get a flick on.
JCH isn't doing either at the moment. I don't know why Robins can't see it.

On a slightly different note, their first goal, why did we not have a man covering that post?

 

[Magwitch]

What I can’t fathom is we played this way last season and we huffed and puffed and had plenty of poor days at the office, it changed and by the end of the season I think we were easily the best team in the division or did I have my sky blue specs on ?

 

[steve82]

What I can’t fathom is we played this way last season and we huffed and puffed and had plenty of poor days at the office, it changed and by the end of the season I think we were easily the best team in the division or did I have my sky blue specs on ?

Sky blue specs were on. Luton and Accrington were better sides consistently over 46 games. I’d argue Lincoln were a good value too.

League one isn’t as easy or forgiving as L2 either and we’ve players not handling the step up


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[Johnnythespider]

If you play one up front he either needs to work the channels or he needs to hold the ball up and bring others in to play. He doesn't win anything in the air either, (apart from in our box, he's good defensively), not that it would matter because there's no one within 20 yards of him even if he does get a flick on.
JCH isn't doing either at the moment. I don't know why Robins can't see it.

On a slightly different note, their first goal, why did we not have a man covering that post?

Someone should show him how Regis used to play, i think that's the type of game he should be developing. He'll never be that good of course but horses for courses.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Someone should show him how Regis used to play, i think that's the type of game he should be developing. He'll never be that good of course but horses for courses.

Even Regis had a partner and wingers, the development of the defensive midfielder has been bad for the game, why are there so few box to box midfielders

 

[Covstu]

We don’t have the pace to play one up front or the creativity to put balls through to the individual. We lose the ball too easily in the centre of the park then our wide men are not delivering crosses (especially on the left).

 

[skyblueeyesrevisited]

If you play one up front the wingers and central midfielders need to take it turn to make runs off the centre forward. Our centre mids are always too deep. The wingers need to come inside when you attack on the opposite flank.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

We were clearly playing 4-3-3 and the wingers obviously have to drop when defending.

You could see Hiwula, Thomas and JCH in line when we had the ball, with Shipley and Bayliss high up as well. If anything, Kelly was too isolated because their number 10 was on him all the time.

It didn’t work, but results were starting to dip when playing 4-4-2 when Robins said ‘things have to change’. He’s at least making an effort to sort our form out and we didn’t set out defensively because we had more possession, and a similar amount of shots. Luton, the league’s in-form team, we’re just better than us.

As I said in another thread, I’d play Kelly and Doyle in a 4-4-2.

 

[sylus]

I actually thought we looked more like a 4-5-1 formation and still being overrun in midfield

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Sky blue specs were on. Luton and Accrington were better sides consistently over 46 games. I’d argue Lincoln were a good value too.

League one isn’t as easy or forgiving as L2 either and we’ve players not handling the step up


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There’s 3 points between us and 9th, things aren’t as bad as people are making out. In the league, we’ve lost 3, drew 2 of the last 5 with 3 of those being in the playoffs. It’s not the coming of the apocalypse.

Not many people are not looking at this with the long term in mind. It seems we’re taking it game by game, so when we win a few in a row, we’re the one of the best in the division. Now that form has flipped, ‘Robins is losing it’ and we’re a terrible team now. We’re quite a bipolar fan base in that regard and we’re even quicker to write off the team.

With how young the team is, we need to be patient, and for me, I’m not panicking until there’s a danger we’ll get sucked into a relegation dog fight. My expectations are top half/mid-table and we’re 13th so roughly on track.

It’s not just Robins as at fault. There’s been a fair few games where players have missed clear cut chances. If we’d taken even a portion of them, results would’ve been more positive in all likelihood.

To me, it just looks like there’s a lot of players out there that aren’t playing with confidence. This run of form is more of a crisis of confidence than players turning bad or Robins losing the plot.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

I actually thought we looked more like a 4-5-1 formation and still being overrun in midfield

Diamond midfields can be tricky to play against because in the middle it was 4 v 3 favouring them. It’s why we reverted to a diamond shape in the last 10m or so. Our wingers couldn’t have been further up the pitch without being offside. We didn’t try to play through the gaps in the middle when their CMs were wider covering our wingers. In hindsight, we were probably trying to be too direct.

 

[steve82]

There’s 3 points between us and 9th, things aren’t as bad as people are making out. In the league, we’ve lost 3, drew 2 of the last 5 with 3 of those being in the playoffs. It’s not the coming of the apocalypse.

Not many people are not looking at this with the long term in mind. It seems we’re taking it game by game, so when we win a few in a row, we’re the one of the best in the division. Now that form has flipped, ‘Robins is losing it’ and we’re a terrible team now. We’re quite a bipolar fan base in that regard and we’re even quicker to write off the team.

With how young the team is, we need to be patient, and for me, I’m not panicking until there’s a danger we’ll get sucked into a relegation dog fight. My expectations are top half/mid-table and we’re 13th so roughly on track.

It’s not just Robins as at fault. There’s been a fair few games where players have missed clear cut chances. If we’d taken even a portion of them, results would’ve been more positive in all likelihood.

To me, it just looks like there’s a lot of players out there that aren’t playing with confidence. This run of form is more of a crisis of confidence than players turning bad or Robins losing the plot.

Totally agree, too much was taken from that five game unbeaten run. We was far from superior in that run.

We’re in a bad spell but just a piece or two of the puzzle is missing to creating the perfect blend. Hopefully January we can find at least one piece.


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[clint van damme]

Totally agree, too much was taken from that five game unbeaten run. We was far from superior in that run.

We’re in a bad spell but just a piece or two of the puzzle is missing to creating the perfect blend. Hopefully January we can find at least one piece.


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that's what frustrating, wouldn't take a great deal of improvement for us to be around the play offs.
Apart from yesterday, we were well beaten, best team I've seen this season.

 

[Warwickhunt]

Doesn't work with 1 up front. Well, not when that 1 up front is JCH.

If you notice their forward could bring the ball down and hold it until midfield support arrived. JCH like you said drops to the floor like a fairy or heads the ball to no one. one of his daliances by our corner flag he was pressed and he fell to the floor like a sack of shit and the ball was pumped up field leaving Daniel's exposed and he just about put their player off from scoring

 

[Gibbo]

I actually thought we looked more like a 4-5-1 formation and still being overrun in midfield

I thought it was -4-5-1 as well
At the least he could have left Shipley on the left and tried Hiwula up front with JCH