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Both central midfielders are sitting incredibly deep so there's hardly any options in the middle.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Too much playing at the back weve gave the ball away 4 times in dangerous positions doing it, its alright playing a system if pur players can play it which they seem to be struggling with at the moment. Stevenage had like 30 percent of the ball yet had 4 more shots on target to our 0 plus they hit the post. We just need to get it up the pitch quicker sometimes and stop pissing about with it.

Spot on its just a repeat of Tuesdays game but worse.

Quoted from tashee69

Not often I’ll say this, but that was dreadful. Too many unnecessary passes going backwards. We get a free kick in a position to put the ball in the box and 5 seconds later it’s back with McKeown.

Totally agree. Makes my blood boil. There's an unwillingness to take the ball forward. They think they're doing the unrisky thing and retaining possession but it just puts the next player back in a tricky position. Much better to take a risk and lose it near their box than lose it near ours.

Quoted from Kris2

It does though. If it's not working for you then it's probably something on your own end that you're incapable of understanding from a technical point of view. In either case you're not forced to pay for it and can choose to spend and not spend your money as you wish.

Funny how it's the only 'service' I have problems with. Can view other online content without problems like this.

Toothless and pedestrian. No movement off the ball, no speed of thought or foot. Loads of possession but that’s largely been directly in front of Mckeown so what’s the point.

System doesn’t work for me, too much space between players. Four in midfield with two strikers playing alongside each other please. Won’t happen unfortunately.

Makes hoofball look exciting and more importantly safer at least we wouldn't be giving them the ball until its in their half

Moaning bunch of barstewards !!!...you complained when we got sladeball, you complained when we got bignot bingo, clueless Jolley, pragmatic Hurst...now we are at least trying to play football, passing, possession based football...it's a complete change in the style and needs time to bed in!... personally, I'll take this style of not getting battered and aimless balls to huddle on the left of the half way line from macca... Rome wasn't built in a day, give it time, Christ it took Guardiola 2 seasons to get city firing and Klopp 5 seasons!..

Still wondering how Tilley’s header could’ve been so shite.

I've watched all our games and I see NO improvement, Gomis comes on ahead of Max why? This team is not as good as the conference team that got us promoted. I'm losing faith rapidly something has to change.

Lucky not to go in one down, or worse. We are utterly without penetration up top this half and have no drive in the middle. We get a free kick inside their half, and to the commentators amusement choose to pass it back to Macca. Sums us up at the moment. We are also suckers for attempting quick short free kicks from positions that could be used to force it Into the box. This so rarely works now as teams can stand in front of the taker with no penalty, if its quick, meaning the ball has to go backwards, so it's usually pointless when your as weak a penetrating team as we are at the mo.

Bennett has made some good touches and looks promising. Gomis control looks suspect but at least he has tried to make things happen.

We've looked very suspect all over the pitch to be honest, against a team that's dire which is really worrying. Need to change the formation I think.