What seems to have been overlooked .

[Nick Jansky]

Not sure it was ridiculous to defend a corner with men in the box. As I said we dealt with the ball in. We didn’t deal with the ball out, twice, and the shot, twice which I already agreed with.

My point is that it was ridiculous to defend the corner with that many players in the box given the number that Mansfield had committed. And that’s the reason we were unable to deal with the ball out.

 

[Keen Blade]

The blame lies firmly with the coach who had 10 days to prepare the team for the Giants of Mansfield yet delivered another garbage performance. The team had experienced internationals on the pitch yet none had the gumption to show a modicum of leadership.
Made worse at halftime when no subs despite the 1st 11 being so bad.

Nail on head - no leadership

 

[Lane Ender]

I’d go with Campbell. At least the others all put some token effort in even though their execution was shite. Campbell was an absolute passenger.

He’s been a passenger for a long time.

 

[Blademan89]

If you look at the number of players they had in the penalty area (5) and the positioning of their other players I would say they absolutely expected to lose the first header. It was very tactically astute.

We were unable to deal with the ball out because of the ridiculous decision to completely flood the 6 yard box against 5 men. And we didn’t learn from it.

A few year ago it come out a very well known manager (cant remember who) had worked out the percentages of balls cleared/ where they dropped from corners and turned out majority was around that area etc, and he purposely put players around that area for the ball to drop - thus getting a few goals from it. (If I can find it will link it).

Im sure Clough is just doing the same. If not then it would have being the players seeing our set up and thought well no ones marking us we will stay here. And I bet they couldnt believe their luck all half with it.

 

[ChapmanBlade]

A few year ago it come out a very well known manager (cant remember who) had worked out the percentages of balls cleared/ where they dropped from corners and turned out majority was around that area etc, and he purposely put players around that area for the ball to drop - thus getting a few goals from it. (If I can find it will link it).

Im sure Clough is just doing the same. If not then it would have being the players seeing our set up and thought well no ones marking us we will stay here. And I bet they couldnt believe their luck all half with it.

Allardyce i think, final 3rd percentage football he talked about on one of the podcasts (might be wrong with him but he definitely talked about % of balls landing at the edge of the area)

 

[Blademan89]

Allardyce i think, final 3rd percentage football he talked about on one of the podcasts (might be wrong with him but he definitely talked about % of balls landing at the edge of the area)

Might be right. I saw something, but couldnt quite remember where or when knew kt was a while ago, I think its the same interview/ podcast we ste thinking..

Not sure what platform or which manager but I do remember that part about % balls landing on the edge, and it worked put for him putting x players around there.

 

[Need4speed]

After a game, I don't know when, Wilder said there were three ways to attack a team, one go through them, two go round them, three, go over the top. Against Mansfield we seemed to be trying to pass through them we had a lot of the ball and made an endless number of passes. But the strikers we had on the pitch are not suited to that approach. I would argue that Campbell is more of a channel runner or quick one twos around the half way line to get in behind. Ings probably more suited to a go ropund them approach with him mainly being a between the sticks striker (if not very effective for us). Mansfield were happy to concede possession and go into a low block which with our tactics completely nullified our strikers. Bamford would have been much more suited here because he drops and would likely have pulled the defence out of position to give space in behind. We were unable to get round them because Chong, apart from being useless, gets pulled inside as did Hamer on the other side. our success in recent games has been where we have Seriki and Brookes out wide on one side and O'Hare and McCallum on the other. I don't think any of the players did themselves any favours by a long way. But the tactics and team selection and substitutions were down to one man. How Campbell stated on the pitch so long I don't know. To me when Wilder gets grumpy after a match or moans about the players, he knows that he is to blame.