The worry for me is that CW played the same system that has brought us zero points so far this season.
Exactly this. My concern with CW has always been a lack of Plan B. It’s obvious Plan A isn’t working, so we need someone who can trial more formation options and learn to adapt very quickly.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen that with Wilder.
The other issue is if we sure up the defence as a starting point, we’re always prone to a 1-0 defeat, as we’re not focusing on the attack side, so won’t score.
To me it looks very much like:
Bristol City - Played front front attacking football like we saw pre season, but their early second half goal killed the game and we were scrambling about.
Millwall / Swansea / Boro - Selles is focussing on defence to try and get us solid without the threat, hence 1-0 losses.
Ipswich - Selles, massively under pressure and with performance data in his pocket drops Hamer and Campbell, and tries to get his new signings to gel immediately with catastrophic results.
Charlton - Wilder sticks to a standard line up, despite having minimal time to asses players like Matos, Soumare, Tanga, McGuiness and Ogbene. With zero threat we’re riding our luck most of the game and concede in the last minutes. A point would’ve been at least a starting point, a win looked extremely unlikely outside of hoping for some Hamer magic.
Now Oxford becomes our seventh game with probably the same amount of pressure. We need CW to get a tune out of players he doesn’t know, and of those he does, some confidence building.
Hamer, Peck, Cooper, Campbell, Burrows, O’Hare, Seriki, these are all his players or players he’s worked with extensively, so it’s not like a full squad of newbies to gel.
I’m really worried, and think Oxford will beat us as they’re no pushovers. We make every game look like hard work while the opposition is 2/3 passes before getting in on goal.