| conor washington. 22:18 - Jul 26 with 1460 views | connell10 |
I so want the kid to succeed! I would have given him the full 90 tonight. |  |
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| conor washington. on 22:22 - Jul 26 with 1442 views | TacticalR |
One up front with Washington just doesn't work. Either play him with a big player who can bring the ball down for him, or don't play long ball football. |  |
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| conor washington. on 22:29 - Jul 26 with 1404 views | Hooparoo |
| conor washington. on 22:22 - Jul 26 by TacticalR |
One up front with Washington just doesn't work. Either play him with a big player who can bring the ball down for him, or don't play long ball football. |
Seems pretty obvious really. The obsession with long balls up to a bustling centre forward puzzles me. I don't get the point if it at all. We are fit (by all accounts) and we have pace in the side (at last) so why do we negate all that by playing aerial ping pong? |  |
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| conor washington. on 22:58 - Jul 26 with 1272 views | daveB |
| conor washington. on 22:29 - Jul 26 by Hooparoo |
Seems pretty obvious really. The obsession with long balls up to a bustling centre forward puzzles me. I don't get the point if it at all. We are fit (by all accounts) and we have pace in the side (at last) so why do we negate all that by playing aerial ping pong? |
I don't think the team had much pace or width in it tonight and the 2 in central midfield are not great at quick passing either so that left us either too slow in possession or knocking it forward too quickly .
I like the look of Washington but he played up front on his own for Ireland in the summer and did it at times for Peterbrough so it's not an alien position for him |  | | |
| conor washington. on 07:37 - Jul 27 with 1055 views | Northernr |
| conor washington. on 22:22 - Jul 26 by TacticalR |
One up front with Washington just doesn't work. Either play him with a big player who can bring the ball down for him, or don't play long ball football. |
One up front with Washington can work, Sunderland played Defoe by himself last season and he's not exactly Duncan Ferguson. But it can't work the way we play it, long balls, channel balls, the poor bastard gets absolutely nothing to go on. |  | | |
| conor washington. on 08:05 - Jul 27 with 989 views | connell10 |
| conor washington. on 07:37 - Jul 27 by Northernr |
One up front with Washington can work, Sunderland played Defoe by himself last season and he's not exactly Duncan Ferguson. But it can't work the way we play it, long balls, channel balls, the poor bastard gets absolutely nothing to go on. |
Totally agree and if it continues i cant see the lad getting many goals. | |
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| conor washington. on 09:35 - Jul 27 with 814 views | SuffolkHoop |
| conor washington. on 07:37 - Jul 27 by Northernr |
One up front with Washington can work, Sunderland played Defoe by himself last season and he's not exactly Duncan Ferguson. But it can't work the way we play it, long balls, channel balls, the poor bastard gets absolutely nothing to go on. |
Since January how many goal scoring situations has he been in? It's hardly any, 3 or less I'd say. Should have scored last night I hope it doesn't play on his mind already. |  | | |
| conor washington. on 10:03 - Jul 27 with 765 views | 1MoreBrightonR |
Its an odd one...its seems pretty obvious to all of us and they must have knew this style of play didnt suit him. Hopefully they have an idea of some creative players they can bring in to support him...but i'm not optimistic! |  | | |
| conor washington. on 10:21 - Jul 27 with 722 views | TacticalR |
| conor washington. on 07:37 - Jul 27 by Northernr |
One up front with Washington can work, Sunderland played Defoe by himself last season and he's not exactly Duncan Ferguson. But it can't work the way we play it, long balls, channel balls, the poor bastard gets absolutely nothing to go on. |
Perhaps I should have said that it didn't work last night (and we've seen previous games where it hasn't worked). The only time that it (almost) worked was when El Khayati played a pinpoint pass along the ground to Washington and Washington hit the bar.
Washington is going to need those sort of passes from midfield, but last night our central defenders defaulted to whacking the ball forward.
Defoe's a bit more nippy than Washington. | |
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| conor washington. on 10:23 - Jul 27 with 713 views | PunteR |
I thought Jimmy prefers 442 ,why are we playing 1 at top? |  |
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| conor washington. on 10:57 - Jul 27 with 645 views | WeaverQPR |
30 games in under JFH and we are no further on tactically than day 1. |  |
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| conor washington. on 10:59 - Jul 27 with 635 views | Northernr |
| conor washington. on 10:23 - Jul 27 by PunteR |
I thought Jimmy prefers 442 ,why are we playing 1 at top? |
Because what few creative, talented attacking players we do have are all best suited to playing 'ten' off a lone striker. | | | |
| conor washington. on 11:11 - Jul 27 with 591 views | stevec |
I suppose last season we had a central midfield that were incapable of supporting the wide men.
So what do we do? Get rid of the wide men. Genius. |  | | |
| conor washington. on 11:12 - Jul 27 with 585 views | Jeff |
| conor washington. on 10:59 - Jul 27 by Northernr |
Because what few creative, talented attacking players we do have are all best suited to playing 'ten' off a lone striker. |
Agreed, if you want to play both Washington and Polter up top (or Lee Cook's other nominal non-scoring lump...) then you are naturally going to play 4 in midfield (assuming that we're not going Redknapp 352 or anything silly like that...)
That means you have to drop Chery, who can't play in a central midfield 2, and isn't the touchline hugging winger whipping in crosses that the 2 up top will want / demand.
and for me Clive, Chery>Washington. |  |
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