The over-passing game

[RealMcCoy]

“Toxic Ollie” ???

 

[PokerBlade]

‘You can't pick single instances of when a long ball has worked and simply say "we should do that more".’

Isn’t that more or less what Charles Reep did?

He is a shining example of how not to use statistics.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Wasn't too pleased with our first half performance, it wasn't really the pace and the speed that we usually play at home. It was sort of a comfortable first half from our point of view, and we can't afford to play in that way. From our point of view, we just played too slow, went backwards and sideways and never ran forward enough, never played forward enough and never played quick enough. When we lost possession we didn't get the ball back quick enough.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Wasn't too pleased with our first half performance, it wasn't really the pace and the speed that we usually play at home. It was sort of a comfortable first half from our point of view, and we can't afford to play in that way. From our point of view, we just played too slow, went backwards and sideways and never ran forward enough, never played forward enough and never played quick enough. When we lost possession we didn't get the ball back quick enough.

Agree.

I also think they had a game plan which was to just keep possession no matter what and waste time.

It wasn’t exactly 10 men behind the ball, but a variant on that.

It all depended on us scoring first. And we did. And that was the end of the game in all but the final score.

 

[Dnblade]

Agree.

I also think they had a game plan which was to just keep possession no matter what and waste time.

It wasn’t exactly 10 men behind the ball, but a variant on that.

It all depended on us scoring first. And we did. And that was the end of the game in all but the final score.

They often had 10 behind the ball though CB...looked like they stopped us getting Norwood on the ball who had the 6.Vela man marking him for 70 minutes, and forcing us to play out through our Centre Backs.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Agree.

I also think they had a game plan which was to just keep possession no matter what and waste time.

It wasn’t exactly 10 men behind the ball, but a variant on that.

It all depended on us scoring first. And we did. And that was the end of the game in all but the final score.

My post consisted exclusively of quotes from Chris Wilder's post match interview.

I think you were maybe a bit harsh, but definitely right to criticise the first half, and the people who disagreed with your post may be surprised to hear that Wilder seemed to agree with you!

I don't think we need to get all defensive at suggestions of us needing to tweak things. It doesn't need to imply we've got to scrap our style completely and start playing hoofball.

Things weren't working first half and Wilder had to change formation and then address a few things at the break to get us going.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06zt422

 

[BanbridgeBlade]

Perhaps the most frustrating moments of the first half were where JOC and Basham from good positions out wide where they had space, time, and could have taken a touch first decided to hit first-time woeful crosses in that completely wasted some good build up. This is what’s extremely frustrating about the gerritinfirsttime brigade – it will be a viable option when it’s someone like Fleck, Duffy and Toxic Ollie on the ball, as they have the quality to do that reliably most of the time. With our overlapping centre-backs we’re already expecting a lot of them to be reasonable crossers – asking them to whip it in first time is more often than not with them going to result in an overhit cross, or as the case yesterday hitting it straight into touch.

Toxic Ollie??? you mean Ollie Norwood, arguably our best midfielder this season???

 

[BushBlade]

Toxic Ollie??? you mean Ollie Norwood, arguably our best midfielder this season???

I’m guessing it’s a reference to this thread.

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.p...t-toxic-to-the-team.68132/page-5#post-1876837

Which you commented on at the time.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Toxic Ollie??? you mean Ollie Norwood, arguably our best midfielder this season???

Yes, affectionately known as Toxic Ollie by all.

The Toxic Ollie chant in particular is a fan-favourite on matchdays.

 

[BanbridgeBlade]

I’m guessing it’s a reference to this thread.

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.p...t-toxic-to-the-team.68132/page-5#post-1876837

Which you commented on at the time.

Cant help myself, he's one of my favourite players this season. His passing is a joy to watch