Lieutenant Dan wrote:
Russybcool wrote:
But I thought the consensus was that is all we are good for. Bouncing around league 1 and 2 like we are Northampton Town albeit with a decent ground. I mean we struggled in league 1 last season (obviously we went down) trying to play football "the right way" whatever that is and I don't even know of a game I watched that I really enjoyed. I really can't. Not to say there wasn't I am sure Morecambe away was a hoot, but I wasn't there to see it. So who cares if we win ugly. Winning breeds confidence which then can be trained to be more skill based, but I think we need to walk again before we can run. That's all I am saying. Get us winning. Get the confidence. Then get the skills. Not trying to shoehorn skill in a team with no confidence cause if it goes wrong they will beat themselves up metaphorically and then they will be paranoid that everything they do will be scrutinised which will cause more panic and then more mistakes. Just my view not the gospel.
This sounds like you want to play one particular way to get us back in League One, then change everything around completely once we get there.
Why not though? Almost certainly the majority of the squad will have to be changed between loanees, has-beens and natural process of contracts ending and L2 level players not being required for a L1 season.
FWIW, I dont think we can have a nailed on style for the season as a whole due to various factors but most predominately I think the condition of away pitches might require more direct routes more often. Pretty possession based footbal is great on bif, flat as a snooker table pitches but not so good on smaller and soft uneven grounds.
As much as I dislike it as a style, we encountered quite a lot of 'hit the top early and hussle' tactics last season and more often than not they worked, along side 'retreat to halfway, watch us pass backwards and sideways for 10 minutes and wait for the inevitable mistake'.
Its L2 and the mistake is more or less nailed on to be made, more so on a bumpy uneven pitch.