Midfield

[Banksy]

Look,

Don't blame the guys up front. Personally I think the midfield is where we are not good enough.

Maher needs support. Gutteridge has not cut the mustard at this level and Hunt is more of a defensive midfielder come sweeper.

We need Dennis Wise/ Paul Ince types in the middle but unfortunately if it were them, then that would clash with our coaching set up. There has to be others.

Also the men that Cardiff got in the box to meet their crosses
as have other teams at this level leaves our tequnique very woeful when all we seem to do is to rely on Fredy to conjure something out of nothing.

The gap between our midfield and the front men beggars believe.

What we have achieved is nothing short of phenominal but we have got to adapt to this level and soon.

Having said all that, the ref, cost us two goals albeit our defending from the resultant situations was non exsistant. When you concede that margin, to a side that are riding high the confidence is eradicated. They struck lucky thanks to a totally incompetent and an inept official who gave them the opportunity to win the game from his scandalous decisions. Thereafter our heads just dropped (not surprisingly) and we were never going to come back.

The midfield must be resolved whereby the forwards might just start scoring.

 

[wiggy]

This is the root of most of our problems and Tilson just can't see it. Gutts i believe is not just out of form, he is not good enough, although i would still rather he played in midfield than the even less creative Hunty. Jay on 1 leg has got to be more creative than the current crop of midfielders but the increasingly negative management refuse to try it. Other teams buzz from midfield and give there strikers the service they deserve, but we just waste Freddy's talent and get on Paynters back expecting mission impossible. Tilson and Brush have worked wonders in the past but there lack of ideas is starting to show. JCR going nowhere creating nothing and a midfield creating nothing, what do we do, nothing!