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Gaffer58
July 24, 2018, 6:36pm
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Surely that was the whole idea of bringing Crouch on.  To get the ball forward quickly and for others to feed off his flick ons.



Can't understand why it was not successfull!!! I know England had a supposedly easy route but when we try to play pass and move we got to he semi's.
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How desperately must we have a "plan b" and a big unit striker to go direct to???

Maybe we'd be better off having faith and belief in our playing philosophy. And if it's not working one week, make little tactical tweaks or a change in formation, rather than throwing the whole philosophy we've worked on at Cheapside all summer down the shitter and throwing on Jimmy Lankyfuck to toss it up hopefully towards and hope something happens.

I know everyone obsesses over the "plan b" but I'd prefer us to be patient and stick to a way of playing that MJ/AL will be coaching them to, and if it's not working, we either do it better or we find little tweaks to make or opposition weaknesses to exploit.

Said it before on here but a target man doesn't have to be a big unit striker, there's nothing wrong with the target man being a smaller stronger player who can just hold the ball up and lay it off when its played into his feet (Rees). He's still a target in the final third, you're just finding him differently, with different service.


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Quoted from Tommy
How desperately must we have a "plan b" and a big unit striker to go direct to???

Maybe we'd be better off having faith and belief in our playing philosophy. And if it's not working one week, make little tactical tweaks or a change in formation, rather than throwing the whole philosophy we've worked on at Cheapside all summer down the shitter and throwing on Jimmy Lankyfuck to toss it up hopefully towards and hope something happens.

I know everyone obsesses over the "plan b" but I'd prefer us to be patient and stick to a way of playing that MJ/AL will be coaching them to, and if it's not working, we either do it better or we find little tweaks to make or opposition weaknesses to exploit.

Said it before on here but a target man doesn't have to be a big unit striker, there's nothing wrong with the target man being a smaller stronger player who can just hold the ball up and lay it off when its played into his feet (Rees). He's still a target in the final third, you're just finding him differently, with different service.


Agree. Kenny Daglish for all his other attributes was excellent at holding the ball up and he was short. It helped having an enormous bottom!!
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Aha the mysterious "plan B"raises it's ugly head once more.

This has been thrown at every manager here since god knows when.

Hurst had no Plan B Bignott had no plan B, Slade (spit) Had no plan B.

Now apparently Jolley has no Plan B lol. If anyone knows what this devastating "Plan B" his get in touch with GTFC ASAP.

Maybe it means if we are losing abandon the match and get the frigging marbles out lol.


I didn't say Jolley hasn't got a plan b at all!

I was merely generalising the need for a different type of striker in case our game plan is not working for any reason.. .. it's good to have a variety of options available to keep the opposition guessing and/or combat their defence!

Football is a multi-dimensional game and I'm sure Jolley will want all based covered going into the season!


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Thought Hooper did an honest job as target man but Tommy is right in that Rees, Dalglish et al often received passes on the deck. JJ is much better facing the goal. Also noticed that Marquis and Wilks had licence to play across the full width. Flexibility is key.
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The idea is for when the ball is played into the forwards, the keep it and move it on to another Town player. Tony Rees was the master at it. Didn't matter who or how big or how many, the defenders couldn't get the ball off him.

Too often last season the ball was played up to our front players, only for them to loose it and it came straight back at us. We were always under pressure because of it.

Being able to move forward and keep possession is the aim of the game. Jolley seems to understand this the most and we now look a lot better going forward.
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It's about time we did away with referring to our manager as Jolley and called him Michael like the City creeps up the road with their darling for now Danny
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Agreed!
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We don't copy anyone, we are GTFC and when it comes to football in Lincolnshire we lead not follow.
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It's about time we did away with referring to our manager as Jolley and called him Michael like the City creeps up the road with their darling for now Danny


And why would we want to be like that bunch of cretins?


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