Post by OohMac on Jul 19, 2015 11:19:29 GMT
I was very annoyed after Friday night to the extent where I was agreeing with AndyL's assessment of last season that Neil Lennon was getting away with mistakes that Dougie would be crucified for. I was, and am, starting to believe that Lennon is slowly morphing into another Dud.
When I saw the line up on Friday and the style of football we seemed to play, laborious and rigid, and the formation it was like going a full year back. I've softened up my view since then, after seeing a string of other teams suffering similar results (like Burnley being 3-0 to Accrington Stanley after 10 mins-went onto lose) and if this squad/team does look similar to Dougies team its because it is. We're stuck with these players that we can't shift and we can't bring in until we do.
For me stick Spearing in this team and we'll lose. When he plays we seem to play with 10 players in our own half. It was him and Medo looks like him and Danns now but he just can't be allowed to play in the centre of the pitch he really is just not good enough. On paper he's not as bad as I make out but put him in and it becomes the most negative team you will ever see.
I don't think we've been training well enough either and that must come down to Lennon. Case in point Liam Feeney. How many times did we see him head down, little skill but getting crossing and not beating the first man. He chips it in like a golfer approaching a green with no pace, no intent and it gets cleared with ease. Week after week we saw that and set pieces he was equally poor. He should spend every day of the week practicing crosses, crosses, crosses. With Madine and Heskey its the way it has to be. I know that's what Big Sam would have done.
I keep thinking of that spell last season when Lennon was new and we went on a four of five match run of scoring 3 goals a game. The week we beat Cardiff and Wigan at home and played some of the best football I've seen since Holden-Davies. We're a millions miles from that now.
When I saw the line up on Friday and the style of football we seemed to play, laborious and rigid, and the formation it was like going a full year back. I've softened up my view since then, after seeing a string of other teams suffering similar results (like Burnley being 3-0 to Accrington Stanley after 10 mins-went onto lose) and if this squad/team does look similar to Dougies team its because it is. We're stuck with these players that we can't shift and we can't bring in until we do.
For me stick Spearing in this team and we'll lose. When he plays we seem to play with 10 players in our own half. It was him and Medo looks like him and Danns now but he just can't be allowed to play in the centre of the pitch he really is just not good enough. On paper he's not as bad as I make out but put him in and it becomes the most negative team you will ever see.
I don't think we've been training well enough either and that must come down to Lennon. Case in point Liam Feeney. How many times did we see him head down, little skill but getting crossing and not beating the first man. He chips it in like a golfer approaching a green with no pace, no intent and it gets cleared with ease. Week after week we saw that and set pieces he was equally poor. He should spend every day of the week practicing crosses, crosses, crosses. With Madine and Heskey its the way it has to be. I know that's what Big Sam would have done.
I keep thinking of that spell last season when Lennon was new and we went on a four of five match run of scoring 3 goals a game. The week we beat Cardiff and Wigan at home and played some of the best football I've seen since Holden-Davies. We're a millions miles from that now.