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PoolWarrior

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Interesting we conceded fewer goals than all the teams who got in the Play Offs but were a good 15-25 goals behind those sides. I think that reflects our season - one more goal in 15-25 games would have made all the difference.
 
Forget that. Look at our possession stats!
yep, it's easy to blame our strikers and you'd have to say you have doubts about them all at L1 level[ discounting Rhodes] but although stats may show we dominate possession imo we don't dominate it in the right areas were we can hurt the opposition and so the strikers don't get a good enough service. So for me, a bit of both.
 
And those cost money. twenty goals a season is hard to find. Sammy Smodich at Blackburn is the nearest i can think off. ps forgive the name spell.
 
We’ve argued on here all season about the tactics set up Critchball etc etc and I respect peoples opinions but for me our Achilles heel has been the quality of the final pass and the finishing .

Other teams have had the same or even a lot less chances in games and bagged whereas we haven’t .

They finished their chances and we didnt.
 
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When fit he often is behind Norburn in the pecking order.
To me their roles should be different though. He’s played both CDM and CAM and further forward he started to improve.

I suppose when Norburn was benched and Dembele played in the free 10, Morgan looked more effective.
 
It's all about the XG.

It's a stat I never look at, as quite frankly, it seems absurd to suggest someone should score in any given situation - but I'll hazard a guess - ours was lower than every team above us.
 
We’ve argued on here all season about the tactics set up Critchball etc etc and I respect peoples opinions but for me our Achilles heel has been the quality of the final pass and the finishing .

Other teams have had the same or even a lot less chances in games and bagged whereas we haven’t .

They finished their chances and we didnt.
On Saturday Reading had 18 shots to our 10.
Both teams had 6 shots on target.
 
We’ve argued on here all season about the tactics set up Critchball etc etc and I respect peoples opinions but for me our Achilles heel has been the quality of the final pass and the finishing .

Other teams have had the same or even a lot less chances in games and bagged whereas we haven’t .

They finished their chances and we didnt.
Harder to find that final pass against a defence that's had plenty of time to set itself though Angel? I just think we've been too laboured too often.
 
We take far too long to go from back to front by which time the opposition are set. We subsequently create too few chances per game. We’re very one dimensional getting the ball wide and trying to get a cross in. I can barely remember a through ball for a striker to run onto. We’ve flattered to deceive..
 
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We’ve argued on here all season about the tactics set up Critchball etc etc and I respect peoples opinions but for me our Achilles heel has been the quality of the final pass and the finishing .

Other teams have had the same or even a lot less chances in games and bagged whereas we haven’t .

They finished their chances and we didnt.
But surely, are these not the sort of issues which the BFC training staff should be addressing constantly with the players in their charge? I mean, is that not their job FFS?
 
not for me we didn't. Slow patient laboured possession football doesn't create sustained pressure and you need that to create more chances.
Therein lies the problem at BR. 'Slow, patient, laboured, possession football' represents the total sporting ethos in place at our Neolithic club, I'm afraid - and which is why we've achieved the sum total of sweet f--k all this season.

Rinse 'n repeat for the forthcoming 2024/5 campaign, anyone?

Yyyyaaawwwnnn ...
 
As much as I can’t stand wanky wanderers they create so many chances, around 20 or so per game, fingers crossed they miss every one in the play offs
 
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Einstein, the renowned German nucleur physicist, from the Thirties and Forties of the 20th Century, is often credited with postulating the following, and I quote: 'The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.'

I hope I'm not reading too much into this, but is there anyone else out there who thinks the great man may well have unwittingly described the sort of conduct and behaviour we have rather come to expect from a certain high-ranking professional sporting figure associated with a somewhat run-of-the-mill, seen-better-days football club, located on the Gold Coast of the UK's most cherished destination for domestic holidays and excursions, namely the county of Lancashire.

Although Albert Einstein's existance rather predates the time Critch was put on this Earth, given the famous words I've quoted above, I can't help wondering to myself whether the German scientist didn't have some kind of premonition of the emergance of the strange being who would come to walk among us, and who would go on to cause great consternation amongst the fans of the aforementioned football club with his continuing insistance that they adhere to a paticular game-plan for all the away fixtures they were listed to play for the 2024/5 domestic football season, and which simply resulted in a continuing downturn in the team's fortunes for all games played away from home.

Perhaps, in my desparation, I'm looking to make somekind of tenuous link-up here to account for something I am simply struggling to explain. Maybe I'll only truly get to the bottom of all this if I was to make a direct appoach to the man himself, but I don't hold much hope ... Because, as was previously intimated by no less a figure that the father of the nuclear age, perhaps he's touched by madness.
 
Harder to find that final pass against a defence that's had plenty of time to set itself though Angel? I just think we've been too laboured too often.
I thought after a bright start on Saturday Reading got the ball to their wide men very quickly & quite often had an overload on our back three. It was inevitable (to me anyway) that they were going to score. Screamed going four at the back but was never going to happen.
 
But surely, are these not the sort of issues which the BFC training staff should be addressing constantly with the players in their charge? I mean, is that not their job FFS?
You can only lead horses to water you cannot make them drink. If strikers are blasting shots wide and over the bar what can the training staff do to address this ?
Practice practice practice possibly but its up to the players to do this for themselves.
The top strikers stay on after training practising shots. It maybe that our players do this .
 
Interesting we conceded fewer goals than all the teams who got in the Play Offs but were a good 15-25 goals behind those sides. I think that reflects our season - one more goal in 15-25 games would have made all the difference.
I think I am right in saying just after Xmas we were the leagues 3rd top scorers, it fell off after that.
 
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