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Post by OohMac on Feb 15, 2021 16:36:00 GMT
Well very cynically im wondering why we had two covid cases last month. Two this. Didnt want to name names except has named Lee as one. Others anon.
Lee had the time allowance to make the squad and wasnt in. At the time of signing there was a lot made of whether Lee was a gamble Evatt vouched for Lee.
I know he wont have trained with the team but a place on the bench over Comley. If FIT. My thoery is that IE is hiding another breakdown by Lee.
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 15, 2021 22:45:44 GMT
Agree with all of that Andy, that’s exactly how I see it as well. I have no argument with the Evatt possession policy but at least we can pass the ball forward and not sideways and back because we have a multitude of players who can do that. I find though that our players are often static, don’t show themselves for passes forward or try to drag the opposition into places they don’t want to go, making space for our other players. We’re just so slow getting the ball forward and I don’t understand why because when we do do it we score, as we did on Saturday. Maybe with John, Lee, Maddison and Dapo in the side it will sort itself because all of them look forward and are quick over the ground.
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Post by andyl on Feb 16, 2021 11:58:09 GMT
Exactly. I note that Evatt has said as much to Marc Iles. That's encouraging, although quite why what seems obvious to the likes of us has to appear as a Damascus moment to a professional football manager astounds. I actually think we have almost too many ball carriers now- we have relegated Tutte to the bench when he was our best player early on and without ever letting him carry the ball forwards and shoot ( save for one impressive glimpse).
Doyle will run channels, albeit lacking the skill or speed to do much when he gets to the ball other than occasionally if it's fired diagonally or even straight. Delfouneso may have the skill, perhaps not the speed but he hasn't the inclination to work for others or run repeatedly--that's why I want to see Darcy or Miller instead of him a) to keep Doyle where he needs to be and b) to get the action deep in their half quickly as a variation to playing through them. It's just crackers to have so many options to run at defenders whilst colluding with a model and tempo that allows oppositions to pack their defences deeply or at the halfway line as they choose with equal certainty that our raids will be rare and our harmless possession endless/interminable.
More generally credit to Thomason, Darcy and Tutte before him and Lee when fit for understanding about off ball running and making angles-- at least we have some chance of passing---which we haven't seen for several years and that's the hope. Now we have to learn how to draw oppositions forward safely and then pounce.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 15:12:30 GMT
If anything can be said about the game, it's that the system that Stevenage plays is a whole lot better than the system we play. They just don't have the strikers.
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