Our Shots on Goal (2 Viewers)

[Nick]

Have said for a while, why can't we shoot? Watching other teams at how clinical they are, they have a couple of shots and score.

All we have is shots blocked or wide, not even shots that look to be going in and make you stand up and then go just wide.

Are they doing any sort of shooting practise? When you watch us warmup before the game doing shots the players fuck about, they have a laugh and try tricks.

I watched MK Dons last week, all they were focused on was putting the ball in the net. Most shots were flying in.

 

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[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

we're just crap.

 

[Nick]

we're just crap.

Do Cambridge have better players though?

It needs a system to suit the players, Sordell scores 2 against Morecambe and gets shunted out to the wing.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Doesn't matter if their players are better of worse as individuals. Collectively they are better. That is down to management.

 

[Nick]

Doesn't matter if their players are better of worse as individuals. Collectively they are better. That is down to management.

Exactly, they find a system to suit those players.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Have said for a while, why can't we shoot? Watching other teams at how clinical they are, they have a couple of shots and score.

All we have is shots blocked or wide, not even shots that look to be going in and make you stand up and then go just wide.

Are they doing any sort of shooting practise? When you watch us warmup before the game doing shots the players fuck about, they have a laugh and try tricks.

I watched MK Dons last week, all they were focused on was putting the ball in the net. Most shots were flying in.

We're extremely negative. Shooting will never be accurate when it's more often than not from outside the box. I'm sick of managers and their obsession with 1 up front.

 

[Nick]

We're extremely negative. Shooting will never be accurate when it's more often than not from outside the box. I'm sick of managers and their obsession with 1 up front.

It's pathetic, we aren't Barca or somebody like that.

Big man / Little man up front. We need it to be simple.

 

[stupot07]

We're extremely negative. Shooting will never be accurate when it's more often than not from outside the box. I'm sick of managers and their obsession with 1 up front.

Competely agree. We rarely create clear cut opportunities or get in behind defences for 1-1's, etc. A good 70-80% of our shots are from 18 yard plus.

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[pastythegreat]

We're extremely negative. Shooting will never be accurate when it's more often than not from outside the box. I'm sick of managers and their obsession with 1 up front.

Especially when that 1 man is Marcus Tudgauy or Dan Agyei

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[Sky Blue Harry H]

They say confidence is a huge thing and today has clearly been a tipping point for most in their support or not for MV as a manager of any sort. That has to have spread to the players. The lack of basic organisation / grit and desire has to come down to the manager. The quality of what he has to work with is down to the cost cutting and poor decision making with the purchases (but mainly the cost cutting). You pay peanuts.........

 

[Nick]

They say confidence is a huge thing and today has clearly been a tipping point for most in their support or not for MV as a manager of any sort. That has to have spread to the players. The lack of basic organisation / grit and desire has to come down to the manager. The quality of what he has to work with is down to the cost cutting and poor decision making with the purchases (but mainly the cost cutting). You pay peanuts.........

Yes but the pay peanuts stuff doesn't stack up in a league where most don't even pay that.

 

[oucho]

I doubt Cambridge have a bigger budget than us. We have got Sordell and it seems to me he is crying out to playing with a second striker, yet he's used as a wide player or as part of a front three that becomes a front one when we lose possession. MV was right that nobody knows what the best team is....I suggest that "our best team" doesn't include 11 players from the current squad.

 

[stevefloyd]

I suggest our best team is none of the current squad

 

[davebart]

Yes I think you can tell a lot from how players approach the warm-up. They are effectively at work and so should be taking it just as seriously as any other training session and doing a professional job. It doesn't have to be un-enjoyable but it does have to be focused.

 

[Gazolba]

Instead of changing the formation and tactics every game in an attempt to counter the opposition, we need to settle on a formation and tactics to play consistently every game so everyone knows their role and everyone else's role. If anyone is injured/suspended, we need to draft in a replacement for the missing player in the vacated position and not reshuffle the entire team around. We shouldn't have to rethink our formation or tactics just because our opponents have a big striker or a fast winger.

 

[steve82]

It needs a new man to come in, a complete outsider to look at this current crop on the payroll and use it the best he can in a fresh perspective.
For me it's 442, if things ain't working revert to what were all taught a basic 442 and everyone is comfortable with.
Use mcbean until his loan spell is up as a target man to feed sordell, use sordell simply as a fox in and around the box. Agyei as a sub and Reid as a traditional winger.

 

[stevefloyd]

To be honest I don't think Sordell is a fox in the box for that you need someone clinical and although he works hard his career stats suggest he is not clinical

 

[Gazolba]

To be honest I don't think Sordell is a fox in the box for that you need someone clinical and although he works hard his career stats suggest he is not clinical

We can't afford anyone 'clinical'. They don't grow on trees (to use TM's expression), they cost money, and they don't want to play for a struggling L1 club. When we recruited Armstrong, Kent, Murphy and Cole, we were flying high promotion candidates.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

We need to go back to a basic 442 with bloody wingers who can cross the ball to the two strikers and can kick the ball with the correct foot rather than always cutting inside. Yes when we played it we got over run in midfield but let's change it and get the ball to the wingers and tell them to attack which will keep the ball off the opposition.

As things are going we will go down with a whimper I would prefer to go down with a bang by having a go.