Individuals vs. the Team

[Latters]

Yesterday notwithstanding, Lundstram has been playing well, improving game-by-game and looking like becoming a decent player, but we rarely win with him in the side.

Stearman was our best defender yesterday both at winning the ball an distributing it. He has been playing well recently, but we rarely win with him in the team.

This issue, for me, could be Wilder’s biggest dilemma thus far. Players are coming into the side and playing well individually, but the team are not getting the results. He needs to find a way to either integrate these good individual performances into a winning unit, or make a tough decision and drop players that appear to be playing well in the interests of the team as a whole.

I am not pretending I have the answer, but sometimes individuals can appear to perform well, whilst inadvertently having a negative impact on the team’s results. Over to you CW. Make us look like the tight-knit unit that appeared to have almost telepathic knowledge of eachother’s movement and would die for eachother once again.

 

[sheffielder]

Neither player makes the other players around them better.

Duffy and Fleck got passes in space from Coutts.
Wright makes the 2 cb's either side play better. He organises and talks. I think Stearman would be ok in a 2, but in a 3 he should be of the boss of the back 3. Hopefully that comes but hopefully not too late.