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Andy Ford any Tactics?

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Do we have any apart from the kick and run we all played at school? The reason that we are not picking up points at the monment is that we have been sussed.On Tuesday the only time we loked faintly dangerous was when we played FOOTBALL on the ground.Just who decides how we go about each match.If it is Andy shame on you,if it is Adrian the same applies. Change tactics now and again, not the same old high ball. I am going home from each match with a neck ache.

We have the ability to beat any team in this league, the fans know it, and you know it.

To win is to produce good football at your strength, and our strength is on the floor, we have pace and skill in the side, utilise it to the best of the players ability, we have the players who can produce.

We the fans/I have deep passion for the club we want the best.As a manager it is for you to provide us with the best of what we have, I expect it will be put down to injury problems as usual, if the people who enter the team through injury are not up to it, then why are they at the club? I expect the objections to my note will come in, but this is a personal opinion and if I could remember my sign on name I would have posted in the correct way.

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I expect the objections to my note will come in, but this is a personal opinion and if I could remember my sign on name I would have posted in the correct way.



No, I think it's a valid opinion - this isn't the ramblings of some inane anti-Ford poster. Don't necessarily agree with everything you say, but it's certainly worthy of dicussion. The footballing side of things needs improving, but I think until we get that elusive, scrappy win, it's going to be a bit kick and rush. Look, on the bright side - things have to pick up... I hope. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />
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Whitebucket has it spot-on unfortunately:

 

"Fleet nick a point in Farnborough air show".

 

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Andy has previously stated on here that its not a case of us being long ball merchants. Rather, its down to how confident a player is on the ball. At the moment confidence must be low so there is probably more of a tendency for the players to wack the ball into outer space.

 

Now to contradict myself - why are players hoofing the ball when we have quite arguably the 2 shortest strikers in the league at present? You don't have to be Einstein to figure out the long ball approach isn't going to work.

 

Even Dean Austin, the Farnborough Manager and a player from the "passing" school of football, Tottenham Hotspur, had his thoughts on our style of play. Banter between him and some of our fans all evening led to 1 fan shouting "At least we play football" to which he replied "Play it on the deck then!". No one could argue with him over that - deadly silence. (NB quotes may not be precise but they were to that effect).

 

We seem to get better results when playing passing football. Our crowds are also falling sharply - would some of the "wavers" still turn up if we were losing games but trying to play more passing football? (And before anyone starts throwing their toys out of the pram I know we are not Chelsea and No I don't expect to see passing football all of the time!)

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In the last third of last season and the first part of this season we were playing some of the best passing football I have ever seen at Stonebridge Road and we were ripping teams apart. At the same time big Roy was scoring goals for fun.

 

Roy is a quality target man who is lethal in front of goal IF the right ball is played into him and only IF!

 

At the moment all confidence has drained from the team and balls are being pumped into the box from deep which are quite simply bread and butter for defenders to head away. The guys need to be told "take players on down the wing and hit balls in from the byeline" then Roy will be getting on the scoresheet again.

 

As an aside I'm still totally bemused at why Andy dismantled the best cetral defensive partnership in the league of Shearer and Mooro and then went out and brought in two new guys ?

 

Perhaps someone can explain the logic to me ?

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You're not the only one who'd like an explanation about that!

As an aside I'm still totally bemused at why Andy dismantled the best cetral defensive partnership in the league of Shearer and Mooro and then went out and brought in two new guys ?

Perhaps someone can explain the logic to me ?



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You're not the only one who'd like an explanation about that!

As an aside I'm still totally bemused at why Andy dismantled the best cetral defensive partnership in the league of Shearer and Mooro and then went out and brought in two new guys ?

Perhaps someone can explain the logic to me ?


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as Brian Clough famously said:

 

"if god had meant for football to be played in the air, he would have put the grass in the sky!"

 

or something like that.

 

We need to keep the ball on the ground, if we send it skyward, we lose out, as we tend not to be as strong in the air as our opposition most of the time.

Maybe we need to find a player who is fast, can score lots of goals, and is expertly strong in the air.

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Sometimes things are out of the manager's control once the players are on the pitch and I'll use England's defeat to Brazil in the 2002 World Cup as an example. We went 2-1 down and suddenly balls were being hoofed all over the shop. It was either Sven or Beckham who, when questioned about the long ball tactic, said it wasn't a tactic at all. It had never been used in training and had never been mentioned by the coach. It just happened. Players panic sometimes when a lot is at stake in a game and the natural reaction is to pump the thing up into the opposing half ASAP. Sadly, it normally comes back just as quickly!

 

Some players on Tuesday who are normally rocks looked decidedly shakey at times which would indicate that desperation for a win has firmly enbodied itself within the team. It will be a stern test for Andy & the boys to turn it around, instill some confidence and start getting some decent results again.

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