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Youngand70 said:
Certainly agree the squad requires expanding in most out field areas, but one of my concerns is where are the goals going to come from. Are we going to be reliant on Campbell and Hamer? Will Campbell be injury free and cope with the new "alleged" higher tempo game plan? Will Moore at 32 be able to contribute likewise? Will we see the "real" Tom Cannon? Will there be a surprise breakthrough from the "young unns" or AI group, not sure on that one? Will there be a new forwards coach following Jack Lester's departure, what was his contribution anyway as some of the "forwards" struggled to hit a "cows arse with a banjo" at times? Has someone in the new coaching team got responsibility for the forwards?
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I think a lot of the strikers finishing faults came down to the build up play. More than often when a ball was crossed in it was from the goal line, pretty much skimming ground where it went between the 6 yard line and the goal line. By then the box was normally compacted with bodies as we took so long in the build up that teams drop back deep in numbers. It was easy for the keeper to sort. Any goals that we did score in this way were mainly scrappy rebounds. We often over played and made it hard for the strikers. An early ball could see them break the offside trap or go one on one with a defender. Our pointless sideways and backwards passes snuffed this out, as by the time we got it forward we had gone from a 2 against 2 situation to 2 against 4 or 5.

When Campbell did go one to one with a defender or the keeper you were always confident that he'd come out on top. His finishing was clinical, composed and intelligent, unlike Brewster who would just smash it as hard as he could, and was either ignoring advice from the coaches, or not receiving any coaching of this manner as all coaching was team formation/tactics as winning was more important than improving players, which ironically would see an improvement in results. This is what I hope will make Selles different to Wilder. Wilder wanted to win by any means even if that meant players playing unfamiliar roles and not doing what came natural to them, hence Rak-Sayki's indifferent performances and inability to get past his defender. Selles is a coach and wants to get the best out of his players which should then
manifest itself in results. Fans will need to be patient as this may see a drop in results while these improvements take place.

That's just my take though.
 
Tony_Kaufman said:
I think a lot of the strikers finishing faults came down to the build up play. More than often when a ball was crossed in it was from the goal line, pretty much skimming ground where it went between the 6 yard line and the goal line. By then the box was normally compacted with bodies as we took so long in the build up that teams drop back deep in numbers. It was easy for the keeper to sort. Any goals that we did score in this way were mainly scrappy rebounds. We often over played and made it hard for the strikers. An early ball could see them break the offside trap or go one on one with a defender. Our pointless sideways and backwards passes snuffed this out, as by the time we got it forward we had gone from a 2 against 2 situation to 2 against 4 or 5.

When Campbell did go one to one with a defender or the keeper you were always confident that he'd come out on top. His finishing was clinical, composed and intelligent, unlike Brewster who would just smash it as hard as he could, and was either ignoring advice from the coaches, or not receiving any coaching of this manner as all coaching was team formation/tactics as winning was more important than improving players, which ironically would see an improvement in results. This is what I hope will make Selles different to Wilder. Wilder wanted to win by any means even if that meant players playing unfamiliar roles and not doing what came natural to them, hence Rak-Sayki's indifferent performances and inability to get past his defender. Selles is a coach and wants to get the best out of his players which should then
manifest itself in results. Fans will need to be patient as this may see a drop in results while these improvements take place.

That's just my take though.
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The slow, side to side ponderous movement that we had getting up the field trying to find that inch perfect pass was never more evident than the Oxford away game last season. That second half was abysmal as we lacked any sort of quick tempo, took another 10 passes when one would do, over played it, and tried to do everything down the middle. There was no width, and when we did get the odd chance to break on them with pace, we slowed it right down and let the Oxford team all funnel back into a set 10 outfield defence who then had to be broken down again. It was infuriated with them that afternoon. Had to be playing to a system and orders.

I'm not one for the long ball, but I do like to see United break at pace on the opposition and try to get shots away early. That if it changes under Selles, will be a very refreshing change.
 
Tony_Kaufman said:
I think a lot of the strikers finishing faults came down to the build up play. More than often when a ball was crossed in it was from the goal line, pretty much skimming ground where it went between the 6 yard line and the goal line. By then the box was normally compacted with bodies as we took so long in the build up that teams drop back deep in numbers. It was easy for the keeper to sort. Any goals that we did score in this way were mainly scrappy rebounds. We often over played and made it hard for the strikers. An early ball could see them break the offside trap or go one on one with a defender. Our pointless sideways and backwards passes snuffed this out, as by the time we got it forward we had gone from a 2 against 2 situation to 2 against 4 or 5.

When Campbell did go one to one with a defender or the keeper you were always confident that he'd come out on top. His finishing was clinical, composed and intelligent, unlike Brewster who would just smash it as hard as he could, and was either ignoring advice from the coaches, or not receiving any coaching of this manner as all coaching was team formation/tactics as winning was more important than improving players, which ironically would see an improvement in results. This is what I hope will make Selles different to Wilder. Wilder wanted to win by any means even if that meant players playing unfamiliar roles and not doing what came natural to them, hence Rak-Sayki's indifferent performances and inability to get past his defender. Selles is a coach and wants to get the best out of his players which should then
manifest itself in results. Fans will need to be patient as this may see a drop in results while these improvements take place.

That's just my take though.
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So again just every single negative was all down to Wilder 😄

You're in for a shock next season
 
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Surely just a stop gap solution until we sign a 1st choice LW, L Barry?
 

iBlade. said:
I did notice that Cannon's squad number is now 7. Our new winger maybe :eek:
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If there was any definite indication Brewster wasn't coming back, Cannon taking his shirt number will do it.

Same way that Moore took the number 9 shirt last summer while there were still ?'s about whether Mcburnie would sign a new contract or not.

Brooks now has number 11, Peck still has 42, not sure what number Bindon has yet.

Edit:
Vacated squad numbers from last season (some now filled)
2:
5:
6:
7: Cannon
11: Brooks
20:
21:
24:
28:
 
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