It's utterly baffling why the club and all of its scouts, directors of football, and manager have consistently neglected the idea of injecting any form of pace into our squad over about a decade.
Probably the last quick player we had was the crap desperation signing of Demarai Gray whenever that was.
Why we persist with this tactic of attacking and then putting the foot on the ball to allow the defending side to get all their players back is mystifying.
Apart from about two per season, we don't play through balls; apart from last week when we scored the two consolation headers against Brentford, I have no idea when we last scored a header from a cross — must have been DCL over a year ago; we do not have the ability to hit teams on the break other than again once or twice a season — look at how many pathetic attempts of 'breaks' we've seen fall apart this season despite being 4 on 1 or something; we don't have any clue how to attack from corners either.
Like you say, the basics are woefully lacking too, for example in the cases of Mykolenko and O'Brien when they receive the ball in loads of space, their automatic initial thought is usually to move it backwards to one of the centre halves — probably the highlight of the season for me last week when Jake's negativity was jeered by the entire stadium.
