Mourinho did it with Chelsea too.
- Turgid
- 9-0-1
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I have absolutely nothing against Dodds. itās the cockwomble above him. He should have never been given the job. Weāve completely lost our identity. The football is so dull. We dont look like creating a chance, let alone scoring. Dodds, im sure is a great coach behind the scenes but not being the main man. This has been a disaster, and its on that ā ā ā ā Rice
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The options are there and have been there for awhile. It is pretty much the same squad that Bloomfield had.
McCleary, Sadlier, Lubala, Kone, Udoh, Fred and Humphreys were rotated a lot in the first half of the season. Four of them would start and three would finish. As far as I am aware all are available. You can add Vokes and Kodua to that list, possibly even Lowry but I think he is one for the future.
Play four at the back. Iād geniunely play Taylor at left back next week to see if he can do it or not. This would then free Leahy to play centre mid if Scowen is unavailable due to injury. Reach is too slow to play left back in a four.
I thought Simons finished that game really well yesterday and he was starting to run past players and pick decent passes. We had one really good move that Kone broke down with a poor touch. I want to see that energy and dynamism from the off and not the last two minutes of added time.
Letās get Low and Bradley together in the middle and Grimmer at right back.
Finally, Iād start with Ravazolli to see if his distribution can give us a better platform. Letās go for it on Saturday and see if we can find a different way. A first half goal and a confident start will bring it all back.
Repeating the last 10 weeks negativity is likely to see us get knocked out, letās go back to what the players know!
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we do not need leahy in CM, is not good enough , i would try Taylor there though , we look.so predictable and do not look like scoring as we.create close.to.zero.with the PE teachers tactics
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Still seems very bizarre to me that the appointment took the best part of a month when the vacant position was just about the most desirable one at the time outside the Premiershipā¦top of the table, top goalscorers in League just off the back of an 11-match winning run.
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I commented on this yesterday at the game too. We came out and had Orient under the cosh for the first ten to fifteen minutes of the second half. Simons was playing excellently and we had some dangerous attacks. An Orient defender then went down with what was clearly a pre-planned injury when he headed away a corner, and we never regained the initiative. They were able to reset and change shape. Itās exactly what we did so well under Gaz for so many years
The same thing has happened in lots of games over the last few months
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Quite an entitled thread, this.
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We still created nothing other than Udohās shot from 25 yards comfotably held by the keeper though.
The fact we look at that as a golden period of the game just sums up how far weāve fallen.
Bear in mind the best chance all afternoon was created by Orient in the first minute of the game!
We could still be playing now and wouldnāt have scored.
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I genuinely think that our toothlessness is more down to Kone than anything else, including Doddsā tactics.
I donāt want to scapegoat him because two months ago I was convinced he was the best striker in the EFL, and Iām certain he can reach those standards again. Heās also very young, and at the end of his first full season as a professional, so I can cut him an awful lot of slack. Heās also the main reason why we were in such a good position to begin with.
Having said that, almost every attack over the last 5 games has broken down when it has reaches him. It happened countless times yesterday. We would play a few neat passes and break through the lines, but KonĆ© would take a heavy touch or mis-control the ball, or mess up a pass, pretty much every single time. You could argue that heās been too isolated under Doddsā system, but heās played alongside Udoh for the last few games and looked a shadow of his strike partner, who has actually played pretty well recently.
If Kone was on form then our attack would be looking so much more incisive.
Other than persisting with Norris, I think that not resting Kone has been Doddsā biggest mistake. Blooms rotated him and Udoh extremely well during the first half of the season
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I guess itās all opinions, but I put Kone*s form down in a large part to Doddsā tactics, although tiredness plays a part as well.
We commit so few players forward compared to earlier in the season.
Under Blooms we had fullbacks bombing on. Under Dodds we have āwing backsā playing as auxiliary full backs in a back 5..
Itās night and day and no surprise we create almost nothing every game.
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could not agree lessā¦Kone form is purley down to Dodds dross ball footballlā¦i get more excited by watching paint dry than watching our attempt to play football.
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Thereās a Mike Dodds in the tv show Law and Order. Special Victims Unit
Cheers, ta.
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The negative defensive tactics Dodds utilises is surely because he doesnāt rate the attacking players we have, also coming from Sunderland he probably sees Wycombe as a small club punching above its weight ( he may be right). The confident almost arrogant attitude of weāre Wycombe Wanderers weāre the best football side in League One just isnāt there. We play like a non-league club playing the big boys in a cup match.
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we have a non league coach at the helmā¦you can tell the players are not playing for himā¦the vote of confidence from the club is laughableā¦
Hardly surprising that heās knackered though when heās the only one in the opposition half to do all the pressing. Really makes me quite angry what Dodds has done to Rich.
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You definitely would not have liked some of the personal abuse being chucked his way yesterday at the game. Let myself down a bit and got into a bit of a row but I was appalled at some of the things our own supporters were shouting.
I donāt mind anyone having an opinion and I donāt mind that being critical. I do mind people frothing at the mouth and calling players and coaches āc**tsā though. It was actually quite embarrassing
Thankfully most fans were not reacting in this way
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I rarely do away games for that reasonā¦I canāt stand it but dont want to get into a ruck. Well done to everyone who went to support rather than drink and spit righteous phlegm around.
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Thereās been a big change in how Koneās been used since Bloomfield left, and Iām increasingly getting the impression his ineffectiveness is down to him not being rotated like he was earlier in the season. Bloomfield had the same amount of players at his disposal (aside from Sadlier since November and Hanlon barely featuring before being farmed out to Stevenage) but managed to do a good job of keeping Kone sharp, at times getting criticism for not starting him.
You can criticise Dodds for not managing Koneās fitness as sympathetically as Bloomfieldās backroom team were able to, though the situation was not helped by Dan Rice not getting replacements for Hanlon and Sadlier who were ready to go. No forwards were brought in, the nearest to either of those two players, James Berry, might in time be an effective winger at this level but is currently nowhere near Sadlier at his best.
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Couldnāt agree more. I had a young lad behind me who called Kone āshitā and a lot worse for the last hour. Kept shouting get him off etc.
Kone did have a poor game and his touch has deserted him but it was just incessant negativity from this supposed fan. His mates just ignored him after awhile and left him to it.
In years gone by I would have got into a heated discussion about supporting the team and players but to be honest Iāve had it sucked out of me with what weāve witnessed over the last few months off the pitch.
Apologies Richard, I should have stood up for you.
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