Team for Rotherham

[Upton_Blade]

Why is it "incredible".

Let's see how the percentages play out. An action packed 80 points next season - say - stuffed with 5-0 wins and 3-0 defeats. Or an often tedious and dull 90+ points shutting up shop, parking the bus, and managing resources.

I don't see why it's so "incredible" to prefer the second option to the first.

Luckily football choices aren't as binary as that HOWEVER if I had to pick one of your 2 options say on threat of my daughters life then I'd go with the 1st option after last season every day of the week.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

How long have you been holding on to that ?

Since it was first made

 

[Mattblade68]

Amazing how pacey we now look .it's not a game of chess anymore, it's all out direct attack and helps when we play balls for players to sprint on to instead of straight to feet, gives them a chance to sprint onto the ball and a nightmare for defenders. Think Liverpool, dare I say..

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Amazing how pacey we now look .it's not a game of chess anymore, it's all out direct attack and helps when we play balls for players to sprint on to instead of straight to feet, gives them a chance to sprint onto the ball and a nightmare for defenders. Think Liverpool, dare I say..

Balls played into space ahead of players for them to run into, instead of passes played to players static in space. It's drawing players out creating space to exploit and we've got the players capable of doing it.

 

[Mattblade68]

Balls played into space ahead of players for them to run into, instead of passes played to players static in space. It's drawing players out creating space to exploit and we've got the players capable of doing it.

The style will also help the atmosphere and use the crowd to our advantage, we rarely managed that last season bar a small handful of games

 

[ITALIANO BLADE]

blades selles ball style wins again

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Luckily football choices aren't as binary as that HOWEVER if I had to pick one of your 2 options say on threat of my daughters life then I'd go with the 1st option after last season every day of the week.

Fuck me football's non-binary too. Where will this madness end.

 

[ITALIANO BLADE]

blades powerfull ruben selles ball style wins again we dont hold back we will hammer everyone i predicted the correct scoreline 0.5 yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[loyalblade95]

Team for Burton, personally I would put a 60 minute team out for this, predicting something like this.

-------------------Cooper
Sasnauskas-Anel-Bindon-Burrows
--------O'Hare----Peck----Hamer
Brooks----------Campbell-----------Oné

Blades win 5-1, Burrows, Peck, Campbell x2, Oné

 

[Uganda Blade]

Team for Burton, personally I would put a 60 minute team out for this, predicting something like this.

-------------------Cooper
Sasnauskas-Anel-Bindon-Burrows
--------O'Hare----Peck----Hamer
Brooks----------Campbell-----------Oné

Blades win 5-1, Burrows, Peck, Campbell x2, Oné

Perhaps Seriki in place of Sasnauskas?

 

[billyblademan]

Team for Burton, personally I would put a 60 minute team out for this, predicting something like this.

-------------------Cooper
Sasnauskas-Anel-Bindon-Burrows
--------O'Hare----Peck----Hamer
Brooks----------Campbell-----------Oné

Blades win 5-1, Burrows, Peck, Campbell x2, Oné

No idea who he'll go for, but wonder if Peck may not be ready for 60 minutes yet, given Saturday was his first friendly.

60 minute teams sounds reasonable, and swapping them round against Chessie on Saturday. Seriki and Brooks have linked really well so far, perhaps he'll continue that partnership? Or test them both by breaking the partnership? In short: fuck knows.

 

[loyalblade95]

Perhaps Seriki in place of Sasnauskas?

I was going to at first, but given how he used Sasnauskas as a RB against York, I wonder if he might have another look at him there.

 

[dexter101]

I think tonight will be a slightly better idea of the starting XI against Bristol but I reckon there will also be a few people still to have a look at and try some new partnerships etc.

-------------------Cooper (Grbic/Davies on at half time)
Seriki-Anel-Bindon-Burrows
--------O'Hare----Marsh (Peck on at half time)----Hamer
Brooks----------Campbell-----------Cannon (Oné on at half time)

I reckon Subs between 60-80 minutes will be

Sasnauskas < Seriki

Robinson < Bindon

Moore < Campbell

Ukaki < Brooks

Cacares < Hamer

McCallum <Burrows

I am wondering who will win the battle to be the number 2... Gribic or Davies?

 

[CamelBlade]

At the match at Rotherham on Saturday did anyone notice the seemingly very confused young man warming up with the team?
He seemed to be under young Hampson's wing. He was moving in a very disorganized way and looked as if he'd never warmed up for a professional game before. I am also not sure he spoke much English as Hampson looked like he was struggling to make him understand?
I assumed it was the potential new Bulgarian lad but nothing has been announced. Weird

 

[St Annington]

This attack happened after Hamer dropped deep to start build an attack. Rotherham tried to press us high up the pitch, but Hamer dropped deep, held on to the ball, ran with it, passed it around, all with the intention to break their pressure. Eventually they had to resignate, and that's when we got an opening to hurt them:



Although the highlights doesn't show the brilliance of Hamer's out of position deep playmaking, it shows what we gained from it.

I think this will lead to some confusion about what formation we play and what role Hamer plays. A formation should be categorised based on how a team lines up when the opposition have the ball. But even this is a lot less rigid than it used to be, and the shape will look different if the team tries to press high, close down and mark certain players and prevent the other team to build in a specific area. Here's an photo showing a rare occasion where our basic (4-3-3) shape can be assessed:

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So, Peck is the holding midfielder, Hamer is LCM, Marsh RCM. Within this formation, Marsh and Hamer's roles are a bit different, with Hamer having a bigger role to play when it comes to building attacks from deep. Burrows' role is also different (stepping into central areas) to Sasnuaskas' more traditional full back role.

So he managed to resist dropping deep for 18 mins . . . and then