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Over the last 18 months Eddie has continually struggled to work out his best formation, his best approach, and his best XI...
When we hit the PL he know the answers to all 3 of the above, and this continued for a few seasons... The Gung Ho approach saw us attack, score a hatful, concede a hatful, but do enough to stay up... But somewhere along the way, the media circus, the pundits, maybe even Max got into Eddie's ear and made him think we need to be better than doing just enough to stay up...
This has been to our detriment as Eddie has had to invest in players that perhaps are not up to what he wants to do, at this level... So the game plan has changed... and not for the best... He is caught between wanting one thing but having to do another, and I think the 'one foot in one foot out' approach has just confused the sh*t out of everyone...
We've got a bunch of individuals that should be a lot better than recent results, however, One question is do the players we have really compliment each other and can you create a balanced XI with them... ? I am not convinced
We have LBs galore sat on the bench yet we play 2 RBs... we're overloaded with Left sided central defenders and only Cook (and Franno) for R sided options...we have a bunch of central and defensive midfielders yet not one real attacking, goal scoring midfielder amongst them... (anyone care to tell me how many goals our central midfield have scored I n the last 18 months?)... We've 2 players in Brooks and H.Wilson crying out to be slotted in front of a midfield 2, yet ply their trade almost anonymously (H.Wilson) on the wing and Eddie seems scared to leave any of his miss-firing strikers on the bench...
Has Eddie run out of ideas or is that the players just aren't the right ones for Eddie's game plan... I still would rather Eddie at the helm as I do believe we will go down and I think after the £100m sell-off we should still have a decent foundation for Eddie to rebuild a unit from, and I would absolutely trust him to do that... However, he needs to sort this sh*t out and fast... Play players where they should be. Play players that compliment, and play players that are in form...
When we hit the PL he know the answers to all 3 of the above, and this continued for a few seasons... The Gung Ho approach saw us attack, score a hatful, concede a hatful, but do enough to stay up... But somewhere along the way, the media circus, the pundits, maybe even Max got into Eddie's ear and made him think we need to be better than doing just enough to stay up...
This has been to our detriment as Eddie has had to invest in players that perhaps are not up to what he wants to do, at this level... So the game plan has changed... and not for the best... He is caught between wanting one thing but having to do another, and I think the 'one foot in one foot out' approach has just confused the sh*t out of everyone...
We've got a bunch of individuals that should be a lot better than recent results, however, One question is do the players we have really compliment each other and can you create a balanced XI with them... ? I am not convinced
We have LBs galore sat on the bench yet we play 2 RBs... we're overloaded with Left sided central defenders and only Cook (and Franno) for R sided options...we have a bunch of central and defensive midfielders yet not one real attacking, goal scoring midfielder amongst them... (anyone care to tell me how many goals our central midfield have scored I n the last 18 months?)... We've 2 players in Brooks and H.Wilson crying out to be slotted in front of a midfield 2, yet ply their trade almost anonymously (H.Wilson) on the wing and Eddie seems scared to leave any of his miss-firing strikers on the bench...
Has Eddie run out of ideas or is that the players just aren't the right ones for Eddie's game plan... I still would rather Eddie at the helm as I do believe we will go down and I think after the £100m sell-off we should still have a decent foundation for Eddie to rebuild a unit from, and I would absolutely trust him to do that... However, he needs to sort this sh*t out and fast... Play players where they should be. Play players that compliment, and play players that are in form...