While I tend to agree that, in general, if you play your best players in their preferred positions you will do better, It's hard to imagine how Lerma playing on Tuesday would have helped our woeful finishing.We do well. Opposite applies. Discuss
I agreeToo much confidence invested in Lerma..same with L.Cook.
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He’s needed because he covers for the full back when they disappear up the pitch no one else seems to bother
JT did and encouraged him to shoot and he got a few goals and did alright. He is better in front of a back four though. Problem is so is Cook. Our problem is Parker tries to shoehorn them both in the side when fit making one of them play in a position that doesn’t suit.Wasn’t there a spell when someone or other played Lerma in a more advanced position (a number 8 if you like) with some success. I vaguely remember that but am blowed if I can recall the details. Or am I hallucinating?
No real logic to my observation but it seems to be a truth. As a defensive midfielder he is less likely to provide the flair and invention we so badly want to see. However his presence does coincide with our better results. He's our best competitive player and never seems to drop in intensity unlike Billing for example. He's never anonymous on the pitch. I think that mentality might then rub off on others. I'm clutching at straws but I think he's our talisman. Go Jeff!
This could quite easily be solved if we just played both deeper with a number ten in front of them, ironically Billing has put in his best performances for us as a ten and Marcondes himself says that it’s his best position. Unfortunately though Parker has his system and he will not deviate from it at all regardless of personnel. This is his biggest flaw and what is holding us back. Good coaches achieve the healthy balance between confidence in their own methods, and utilising the personnel available to them optimally. Parker is just all about the first point and nothing about the second.JT did and encouraged him to shoot and he got a few goals and did alright. He is better in front of a back four though. Problem is so is Cook. Our problem is Parker tries to shoehorn them both in the side when fit making one of them play in a position that doesn’t suit.
It’s also Cantwells favourite position. I agree… have two pivots and let the full backs push on.This could quite easily be solved if we just played both deeper with a number ten in front of them, ironically Billing has put in his best performances for us as a ten and Marcondes himself says that it’s his best position. Unfortunately though Parker has his system and he will not deviate from it at all regardless of personnel. This is his biggest flaw and what is holding us back. Good coaches achieve the healthy balance between confidence in their own methods, and utilising the personnel available to them optimally. Parker is just all about the first point and nothing about the second.
In doing so you also allow the wide men to roam centrally to provide even more threat and opportunity for combinations in central positions.It’s also Cantwells favourite position. I agree… have two pivots and let the full backs push on.
It’s also Cantwells favourite position. I agree… have two pivots and let the full backs push on.