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Inevitable really. Obviously good at rescuing teams in trouble but not great at helping them push on. That said, no budget to work with, half of last year's players and the player attitude isn'r great there.
They have fantastic owners who make good decisions and have momentum. Good luck to them in regards to where they have come from and where they languished for years.
I spend quite a lo of time working in gardens, laying and looking after turf and I honestly have no idea what their fixation with watering the pitch is. I can only think that they are replacing patches and worrying that it will just come up in square chunks if it dries up. But the amount of water they put on it, if you slide at all on it, it will just churn up that turf anyway. It chucked it down all day Friday so that should have given the turf enough to at least more or less stay in place. It's a majorly historical problem. They nailed it a few years ago with turf that could survive the shade but this year we've almost gone back to the Trevor Francis mud bath era.
The kind of defeat that can seriously corrupt the confidence of the team for the season so they need to get this out their system mighty quickly. Particularly as it's Coventry next week!
First 4 goals Inter score here on their fightback just shows how to cross a ball into the area. The pass through the lines for the 5th exquisite as well but wow, those first 4 crosses are something else.
You imagine that someone like Kevin Gallen or Charlie Austin would be ideal mentors for Kone, Burrell etc. Very dissappointed they let Paul Furlong go.
We'll need to go 4-5-1 against Wrexham so we don't get over run. Absolutely can't let Field go. We probably will knowing us. I'd have field and Hayden to hold the midfield and Madsen a bit further forward.
He is our most improved player and as it stands, our only playmaker. His fitness has improved dramatically this season and he's benefited from playing week in week out. Is he as good as someone like Bannan? No, not yet, but he's certainly a player that now gets around the pitch swiftly and isn't afraid to get stuck in. He is the closest 'style' of player we've had to Faurlin but he is slightly hampered by not having that many creative players around him.
That said, one thing I have noticed with Dembele is that whenever he wonders into the middle part of the pitch, his passing awareness and reading of the game seems to be notably better than when he's on the wing.
Surely we have to keep hold of Field? He can play LB, DMF, MF etc. Offload or loan him now would be suicide surely? I don't know why but I always feel we are more stable with him on the pitch. Him and Hayden make a big difference to the middle of the park.
There's a point in the second half where I think Madsen gets dragged to the ground over a 7-8 yard distance just outside the box that the ref waves on. Ref obviously blinded by the wind and rain on that one.
The problem is we don't really have another Madsen, ball playing player available. Even Chair is not a like for like player. We need to find or unearth a Barry Bannan style player. Or even steal 36 year old Bannan from the clutches of Millwall or a team north of the border, as has been rumoured.
Madsen is the closest player we've had to Faurlin in a while, in that he has tried to play a quarter back style role. We don't seem to have another playmaker in the squad or an Eze/Taarabt type talent coming through.
If we are going to unlock more defences, service our forwards and our wide players we need to find a playmaker from somewhere.
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