If he tries making them play a more possession based style and they can't do it, then people will blame his coaching.
From time to time they do play a more posession based style and no, theyre no good at it,
most times, they go long and theyre not good at that either.
It's not down to the players, it's down to the coaching.
Pretty much all his first XI are capable footballers. The only questionable position is right back. The other positions are all filled with mid table players who should be doing much better.
If you look at where it breaks down, it's usually the same, whether it's long ball or possession based. Our off the ball positioning and movement is terrible.
Players arent creating space for each other, they're not dragging opposition players out of position, they're not covering for each other.
It's always the same. Say DCL gets the ball (prob a long ball from JP) he gets forced wide but the winger has gone inside and there's a defender blocking that path, now we have no strikers and for some reason no midfielders have shown for the ball, theyre all back in the middle outside the box along with the winger. Guaranteed, DCL will do one of two things, kick it off the defender in the hopes of winning a corner or pass it to the full back which drags our midfielders back to the half way line and kills the attack.
We've done well on corners but it's fairly clear why, we box out the keeper and load the box with big players but opposition managers are on to this now. Doesnt help when Garner cant beat the first man and we dont change anything.
This team are well capable of passing a ball, they're smart enough to follow more complicated tactics. We've lost a lot of quality over the past few years but weve also shipped out a lot of dross.
This isnt on the players.
