Feb 19 v Where Were You When You Were Shit FC

[Revilo]

Was watching Muller and the other forwards struggle to get back, leaving a huge hole for Victory to counter. Not good enough when there's only a minute left on the clock

 

[Charlie1]

Like to see us play 4-1-3-2 Steele and Ballard are adding nothing need some creative midfield to help the attack

 

[Corsair]

fitness

f**k me look at their squad, yes fitness but we're so far behind their budget we can't possibly expect our first 11 to play the whole game with only 2 subs before the last few minutes. Monty needs a long hard look at his strategy, he talks a lot about confidence but is showing fear...too afraid to make changes during the game. We're seeing reactive not proactive, needs to bring some aggression and risk taking.

 

[ashman89]

Nah fam that wasn’t it hey. I now have concussion and a broken tumbler glass shattered everywhere.
absolute shambles

 

[Allreet?]

I sensed the complacency in the last two minutes (and I won't whinge about the penalty we should've had) but the main problem is we don't have anyone driving through and making chances.

 

[scottmac]

Like to see us play 4-1-3-2 Steele and Ballard are adding nothing need some creative midfield to help the attack

Why not put our best midfielder in the centre......... just a thought

 

[Kalvin]

That was

 

[FFC Mariner]

Midfield is a shambles - 442/4411 doesnt work and you wonder how long Monty will watch the yawning chasm in centre mid before he does something about it.

They no showed no ambition and got exactly what they deserved.

 

[true believer]

Look I know Victory have a bench a mile deep. But we have to use our subs to help counter them just on sheer fitness alone. Faz probably the first time he'd lost his man, but he'd just been run ragged for the past 20 minutes. And now, honestly, how does Niz, Ollie, Marco and Cumdog back up again on Tuesday?

Max/Steele combo is not strong enough. Cy and Beni... not good enough so far... Real shame, we're just so close to being a great side.

every punter on ccmfans saw the same thing .just to f'king late monty

 

[scottmac]

Hopefully Monty learns from this. If he doesn't, then aren't we f**ked...

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Was watching Muller and the other forwards struggle to get back, leaving a huge hole for Victory to counter. Not good enough when there's only a minute left on the clock

Not many forwards run the field to make tracking runs of fresh subs after playing 93 minutes...

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Like to see us play 4-1-3-2 Steele and Ballard are adding nothing need some creative midfield to help the attack

100%

 

[FFC Mariner]

Funny but when Niz goes home to Roar and they play him in his proper position, Monty will look like an amateur

 

[scottmac]

Midfield is a shambles - 442/4411 doesnt work and you wonder how long Monty will watch the yawning chasm in centre mid before he does something about it.

They no showed no ambition and got exactly what they deserved.

Muller, Moresche or Nkololo to the wing and Nisbet central. It's got to happen. Nisbet is our best midfielder and he's playing out of position.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Midfield is a shambles - 442/4411 doesnt work and you wonder how long Monty will watch the yawning chasm in centre mid before he does something about it.

They no showed no ambition and got exactly what they deserved.

Hard to argue with this.

 

[Ads]

Tactically we were very very poor.
And that’s on Monty as well unfortunately.

* Parking the bus but leaving both forwards high.
* Coaching players when to pull the trigger so we might even get a deflection or scraps.
* Wide balls that could have been crossed in on the fly but went stale with players literally standing still.
* Other than Miller the younger boys are playing safe probably due to the string of results they are starting to shake and loose confidence.
* If we going to play long balls we need to be structurally prepared to get the scraps and rebounds.
* If we going to play out we need Urena to come next to Boz and have another passing option for triangles and short passes. Then move ball forward as a team.
* Lacking conviction in the plan that Monty has instilled in the 4-4-2 because the team realising they are getting stretched by teams with these instructions.

Only great things as always is our last ditch defending and huddle to keep us in the game.
But as we found out again, that only lasts so long!

 

[booney]

Their bench won them the game and Monty does not have the same quality bench players so is hesitant to bring players like Ollie off.On Tuesday put Ruon at DM as need his muscle there which Steele and Ballard cannot provide.

 

[jacobsfl]

Why not put our best midfielder in the centre......... just a thought

Exactly. Unfortunately we don't really have enough specialist wide players in the squad currently. Beni is probably our only option, as I feel even Cy is a more central player. I think he definitely needs to play a more narrow approach, because we have enough fullback depth to run a rotation and make the position more demanding as Farrell and Miller should be the only wide options tactically.

For what it's worth you can still involve Nkololo in that kind of a style but they absolutely need to start thinking about a narrow approach. We cannot play another game trying to push Nizzy wide.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Its almost like Monty has an issue with Niz and wont play him in the middle........................

 

[marinermick]

Their bench won them the game and Monty does not have the same quality bench players so is hesitant to bring players like Ollie off.On Tuesday put Ruon at DM as need his muscle there which Steele and Ballard cannot provide.

Give Moresche another ten minutes at least and it might have been a different story. 90th minute sub for him was unacceptable.