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[Revolution]

Probably didn’t articulate myself properly on this but my thinking was that by making the sub then, we now could only stop the game to make subs twice more in the second half. Whereas if he’d waited til halftime to make the change, we’d still have three potential sub “slots” as the halftime one doesn’t count towards them.

It’s a minor thing but as I said on there it just capped off a very frustrating first half. And with our injury record it’s not unlikely that we could’ve found ourselves in a situation where we finish the game with 10 players because we couldn’t make any more subs. Just seemed like poor in-game management to me in a league where we need every little edge possible.

I listened to this bit of the podcast after reading the secretchief post and I see what you were getting at. It was a very poor strategic decision. Nothing turned on it, but it's the little stuff like that which they should be getting right.

I actually think he might have done it after the adverse consequences of letting people play through knocks, but the answer then is to leave Brewster off the field. He wasn't doing much on it anyway.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Brewster was a nonfactor that first half so don’t see how Wolves suddenly become more of a threat if we play out the last 60-90s of the half with ten men.

I suppose that by taking him off for a minute, that could mean that Wolves were free to push one extra defender forwards for that time. As pointed above, if that had happened and we conceded, it wouldn't look good. I'm ok with PH's decision on this one.

 

[secretchief]

24 million for him and the best you can say is that they are a human body in space and time.

 

[just ted]

Easy to say with hindsight - imagine the blowback if we had played out the last 90 seconds with 10 men and Wolves had scored...

Love the pod - thank you so much for all the hard work you both put into it, but this was what I was saying out loud in the car tonight (to myself)

 

[bakeblade]

Probably didn’t articulate myself properly on this but my thinking was that by making the sub then, we now could only stop the game to make subs twice more in the second half. Whereas if he’d waited til halftime to make the change, we’d still have three potential sub “slots” as the halftime one doesn’t count towards them.

It’s a minor thing but as I said on there it just capped off a very frustrating first half. And with our injury record it’s not unlikely that we could’ve found ourselves in a situation where we finish the game with 10 players because we couldn’t make any more subs. Just seemed like poor in-game management to me in a league where we need every little edge possible.

I think this rule needs tweaking for next season. Any subs made 1st half or at halftime, should not count towards the 3 opportunities. The 3 sub rule was brought in to stop timewasting in the latter parts of games, any subs made 1st half are clearly not made to waste time.

 

[Revolution]

I saw the footage of the VAR check for handball just before the pen. The reason that it took so long, I suspect, was because the camera footage was very poor. It was at the side of the screen and it was very hard to tell what was happening. Too difficult to tell if it was a pen. Didn't seem so in real time.

 

[Frank the tank]

I saw the footage of the VAR check for handball just before the pen. The reason that it took so long, I suspect, was because the camera footage was very poor. It was at the side of the screen and it was very hard to tell what was happening. Too difficult to tell if it was a pen. Didn't seem so in real time.

It definetly hits the hand of the defender but whats unclear is if it came up off his body first ,hia hand is a way from his body so i think a better angle and its given

 

[Beans]

Afternoon S2, new episode is out with Roygbiv and I recapping a bonus point at Brighton that lifts us off the bottom of the table. We then give out our school grades and reports for every player in the squad after ~1/3 of the season, including what they've done well and what they need to do better.

Thanks for listening!

 

[Gimli]

Afternoon S2, new episode is out with Roygbiv and I recapping a bonus point at Brighton that lifts us off the bottom of the table. We then give out our school grades and reports for every player in the squad after ~1/3 of the season, including what they've done well and what they need to do better.

Thanks for listening!

The school reports are brilliant! Cheers boys, nother good pod!

 

[Frank the tank]

well done on being the first and only pod out this week concerning the blades

 

[Nesh Blade]

Afternoon S2, new episode is out with Roygbiv and I recapping a bonus point at Brighton that lifts us off the bottom of the table. We then give out our school grades and reports for every player in the squad after ~1/3 of the season, including what they've done well and what they need to do better.

Thanks for listening!

School reports had me chuckling away walking down the street. Thanks as always!

 

[Frank the tank]

great listen again really enjoyed it on way into work this morning
listened afterwards to su way with jimmy blades ramble on it
my word that guy talks out his arse

 

[CTRL ALT DE LAET]

Having Foderingham the highest graded player is wild.

 

[Roygbiv]

Having Foderingham the highest graded player is wild.

Who would you put above him? Only Robinson, Baldock and McBurnie who's been close really

 

[CTRL ALT DE LAET]

Who would you put above him? Only Robinson, Baldock and McBurnie who's been close really

Robinson, McBurnie, Baldock, Trusty, Mcatee, Archer, Hamer

 

[Roygbiv]

Robinson, McBurnie, Baldock, Trusty, Mcatee, Archer, Hamer

Can't agree with that personally. Wes has been MOTM in around half our games this season.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Robinson, McBurnie, Baldock, Trusty, Mcatee, Archer, Hamer

Cracking username, but I don't think what you're saying is correct.

For starters, a lot of those players have been missing for a large number of games. In the case of Robinson, Baldock & Trusty - they've formed part of the worst PL defence of all time at this stage of the season..
In front of them, our midfield has been walked through and totally dominated in every single game. There's no way Hamer & McAtee warrant high marks. They possess a lot of quality, but they've seldom shown it (or had a platform to)..
Archer has done OK feeding off scraps. He's shown he can finish, but he doesn't work hard or hold the ball up well enough for our system.

I can't think of many (or maybe any) goals that Foderingham has been at fault for. He's done really well. The only one that has.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Can't agree with that personally. Wes has been MOTM in around half our games this season.

Also, if it’s Head Boy material you’re looking for, “Foderingham” does sound like a name that brings the right stuff.

Another smashing pod. I don’t think I’ve laughed as much at Blades ‘content’ since Webding and Deadbat identified the “crisps hatch” in Moose’s “I don’t understand it” photo a couple of years ago.

 

[Roygbiv]

Cracking username, but I don't think what you're saying is correct.

For starters, a lot of those players have been missing for a large number of games. In the case of Robinson, Baldock & Trusty - they've formed part of the worst PL defence of all time at this stage of the season..
In front of them, our midfield has been walked through and totally dominated in every single game. There's no way Hamer & McAtee warrant high marks. They possess a lot of quality, but they've seldom shown it (or had a platform to)..
Archer has done OK feeding off scraps. He's shown he can finish, but he doesn't work hard or hold the ball up well enough for our system.

I can't think of many (or maybe any) goals that Foderingham has been at fault for. He's done really well. The only one that has.

I totally get why people have doubts over Foderingham at this level. He had made mistakes and his distribution is poor but I think he's probably been at the peak of his ability this season and has ensured we avoided some (more) hammerings.

For me only him and Robinson are currently in the running for POTS. McBurnie has been good in most games he's played but I think he's only started 5 games. Baldock has only started 5 too.

 

[Bergen Blade]

I'm glad you've highlighted the problems with our lack of ball carries (skip to 14:00 mins if someone would like to listen to that bit specifically). Those stats are backing up what seems to be a general feeling among us that we are too immobile in midfield and have to look at tweaks to improve on that.

 

[Roygbiv]

I'm glad you've highlighted the problems with our lack of ball carries (skip to 14:00 mins if someone would like to listen to that bit specifically). Those stats are backing up what seems to be a general feeling among us that we are too immobile in midfield and have to look at tweaks to improve on that.

The stats Carlton Blade posted are staggering

 

[Carlton Blade]

The stats Carlton Blade posted are staggering

The words you are looking for are

 

[Carlton Blade]

The stats Carlton Blade posted are staggering

I was concerned that maybe United just never do this and it's not a big deal.......

Last season, 33 touches per progressive carry across players with 10+ appearances for United (better than average for the Championship but worse than Sunderland and Burnley in the top 6). It's one progressive carry per 64 touches now. 20 worse than 19th. PL average is (without United) is 32 touches.

You must know a journo. Get them to ask PH what the fuck is going on. Burnley have had a slight drop off but Luton are 2nd in the PL (a PC every 27.7 touches) and are carrying the ball a lot more often than last season

 

[jim2007]

I'm glad you've highlighted the problems with our lack of ball carries (skip to 14:00 mins if someone would like to listen to that bit specifically). Those stats are backing up what seems to be a general feeling among us that we are too immobile in midfield and have to look at tweaks to improve on that.

With me being a tactical dunce, would you or Carlton Blade mind explaining for the tactical illiterates what the likely causes of this are, whether it's a choice on Hecky's part, what to do about it, and what difference would we see if we were matching Luton's rate? After all, they only have one more point and have scored the same number of goals.

Thanks in advance.

 

[SwindonBladeJnr]

I'm glad you've highlighted the problems with our lack of ball carries (skip to 14:00 mins if someone would like to listen to that bit specifically). Those stats are backing up what seems to be a general feeling among us that we are too immobile in midfield and have to look at tweaks to improve on that.

We used to have this player called Sander Berge but apparently he didn't do anything - what do I know?

 

[Carlton Blade]

With me being a tactical dunce, would you or Carlton Blade mind explaining for the tactical illiterates what the likely causes of this are, whether it's a choice on Hecky's part, what to do about it, and what difference would we see if we were matching Luton's rate? After all, they only have one more point and have scored the same number of goals.

Thanks in advance.

Maybe a combo of player fear and the management being terrified of players being out of position?

Bergen Blade Balham Blade?

 

[Balham]

Maybe a combo of player fear and the management being terrified of players being out of position?

Bergen Blade Balham Blade?

There's lots of reasons. We are usually really deep facing an opponent utilising a high press so there's not much space (often 18-20 players in our half) and losing the ball is likely to lead to a shot. We don't have enough dynamic players; Norwood is incapable of running with the ball. Souza isn't sure how to play his current role so is minimising risk by passing as soon as he receives the ball. Hamer is a little overawed. Our team is really, really slow. We don't have traditional wingers who are the most likely to carry the ball. Our strikers aren't great with the ball.

We're currently tactically set up to minimise risk. The team instructions are also about minimising risk but in a way our approach increases the risk.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Really enjoyed the school report section, made me laugh on the way to work this morning.

 

[Carlton Blade]

There's lots of reasons. We are usually really deep facing an opponent utilising a high press so there's not much space (often 18-20 players in our half) and losing the ball is likely to lead to a shot. We don't have enough dynamic players; Norwood is incapable of running with the ball. Souza isn't sure how to play his current role so is minimising risk by passing as soon as he receives the ball. Hamer is a little overawed. Our team is really, really slow. We don't have traditional wingers who are the most likely to carry the ball. Our strikers aren't great with the ball.

We're currently tactically set up to minimise risk. The team instructions are also about minimising risk but in a way our approach increases the risk.

This is one where the stats desperately need the accompanying video analysis to see how many times the option to carry the ball is turned down

 

[Geordie Blade]

With me being a tactical dunce, would you or Carlton Blade mind explaining for the tactical illiterates what the likely causes of this are, whether it's a choice on Hecky's part, what to do about it, and what difference would we see if we were matching Luton's rate? After all, they only have one more point and have scored the same number of goals.

Thanks in advance.

I don't have the stats, but Berge and Ndiaye must have constituted about 60% of our progressive carries between them last year (with McAtee making up another chunk).