by Esteban »
20 Aug 2025 11:59
jd82 Esteban jd82
The really worrying thing is after 4 games, there is zero idea what our team identity is. That and Hunt's seeming inability to adjust to the actual game, as opposed to what he expects to happen. Criminal that no subs were made before 60 odd minutes, and his justifiaction for not using Elliot is laughable.
We could easily sleepwalk into a real shitpit this season..
I've seen this a lot, but I think it's obvious what Noel wants to do. Probably a bit too obvious.
The rest of it I agree with.
Ping 50 yard balls to strikers who can't hold the ball up? Play it around the back until we lose it?
It's very similar to last season, isn't it? Only with Fraser instead of Knibbs and O'Mahoney/Kelvin E instead of Wareham. The identity is supposed to be a high pressing side that's trying to defend from the front and get balls in behind the opposition defence, with Wing controlling the game from the middle of the pitch. Pretty much as per last season. And for 20 minutes on Saturday it was working.
The problem, and this is where I agree with you, was that it was quite one dimensional, so when Wimbledon worked that out and countered it, we needed Hunt to make make the right changes to get us back into the game. He didn't. That's when we ended up passing the ball around the back and getting nowhere, so Wing started trying to force the game with longer balls forwards.