Lanc_seasider
Well-known member
Two contrasting styles of football. We’ll score one more than you versus if you don’t concede you don’t lose.
I think in fairness to Critch his management suits the league above more. He can undoubtedly set a team up to nullify an opposition and that’s a handy skill to have when 90% of the teams you’re coming go against have more quality than you do. But how does this approach adapt to playing sides we are stronger than? In training are we still spending the week setting up to stop Leyton Orient’s threats with little impetus on how we are actually going to score a goal? Because there’s no evidence of any sort of attacking style or patterns going forward, there hasn’t been all season.
I came away from yesterday’s game thinking given the quality in our team is probably above say at least 80% of the league if we approached games in the we’ll score more than you approach we’d win far more than we wouldn’t. Maybe there’s a middle ground that Critch is striving to find, I suppose every manager is striving to find it to be fair. At this moment in time I’d be more confident going into a game with Critch for Bolton away, than I would be for Cheltenham at home. He has to find a different way of approaching games against teams we should be beating.
I think in fairness to Critch his management suits the league above more. He can undoubtedly set a team up to nullify an opposition and that’s a handy skill to have when 90% of the teams you’re coming go against have more quality than you do. But how does this approach adapt to playing sides we are stronger than? In training are we still spending the week setting up to stop Leyton Orient’s threats with little impetus on how we are actually going to score a goal? Because there’s no evidence of any sort of attacking style or patterns going forward, there hasn’t been all season.
I came away from yesterday’s game thinking given the quality in our team is probably above say at least 80% of the league if we approached games in the we’ll score more than you approach we’d win far more than we wouldn’t. Maybe there’s a middle ground that Critch is striving to find, I suppose every manager is striving to find it to be fair. At this moment in time I’d be more confident going into a game with Critch for Bolton away, than I would be for Cheltenham at home. He has to find a different way of approaching games against teams we should be beating.
