Ted Hughes wrote:Hazy2 wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:"Sometimes we take too many touches and we think, 'never mind, we can score next time,' but we can't be like that - in football it doesn't work like that. We have to be stronger in the penalty area."
There's the quote from Bob.
He sees what we see.
Can he fix it ?
Its a fucking bizarre thing to say though isnt it?
What does he want them to do? Is he saying that this fucking around the area isnt part of the plan, that the players have been doing this for 12 months without him sorting it! That he wants a more direct approach but the players cant or wont deliver it
I know on the pitch the responsibility lies with the players to carry out his instructions, but if they werent doing what he wanted in previous games, why would you continue to pick them?
Balo back at Norwich. Plus another raft of changes, for me he is all over the shop with his tactics and selections, players look like new signings game to game. What is it they say the team picks itself, not with RM. He has become hard to read for all and sundry. Performances are crap.
In another quote somewhere, he specifically mentions that we have to shoot, & it all pretty much suggests that he has the exact same criticism of our play as we are talking about (apart from those of us who bizarrely say we've cured it because we won the league last season!).
So it all goes back to the same question I asked on the other thread; are we going to get this right at some point ? Have we not used enough time & money to get it right already ?
Bob has brought it out in the open now. Let's see what he does to fix it. That should give us the ultimate proof of his capabilities. If he sorts it out, then it will be obvious to everybody that he has the ability to influence the players. If he can't do that, he's not got what it takes; simple.
I got a DVD of last season as a Xmas present and I watched it yesterday. What I noticed is the amount of goals we scored by shooting from outside the penalty area. All our players did it. The one that stands out is Yaya's against Stoke.
It's very obvious we're not doing that this season and we're clearly paying for it. Yesterday match was a prime example of our passing game not working and where shooting from outside should have been deployed. I guess it was up to Bobby to tell his players to do that. Did he, didn't he ?
