I believe it was Sam Avery and Brian Jeeves. Brian made a comment that really struck a chord with me, “we seem to get over the halfway line and then pass it back again until it ends up with our goalkeeper it’s so frustrating”. Well if we can all see it, Brian Jeeves can see it, how is it that MD and the iPad men can’t?
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I believe he has made a couple of frustrated comments about being more positive when going forward. I suspect for some that those are filed under ‘throwing the players under the bus’. Of course the fact they are still being so negative shows that if he is telling them to be more adventurous, it isn’t sinking in.
Doddy and the Ipad chaps couldn’t see the huge gap down our right hand side for 65 mins v Stockport.
Any other industry their incompetence could be considered a neglect of duty.
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There was an instance last night when, I think it was Lowry, received a quick throw pass on the left from Norris. He had space in front of him up the line but rather than turn upfield he elected to turn back to goal and played in back with the ball eventually ending up with Norris again.
This is entirely typical of how we appear to want to play in a choreographed way without any spontaneity.
Is this Dodds or the players at fault?
Is normally a lack of confidence . It takes more bottle to make an adventurous run or pass than it does make a crunching tackle . He has eluded to a lack of bravery in doing this before . Players lacking in confidence stay in their shells . They look lazy , technically challenged and make mistakes . Confident players look the opposite.
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Dan Rice’s fault in the end, he hired Dodds, …he approves the players being brought in.
The buck stops with him!
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I remember last night at around 50 minutes we had a free kick on the halfway line. Four passes later we gave a free kick away halfway inside our own half.
It’s the process!
They were also talking about being predictable and the opposition knowing exactly what to do.
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