Tactics, or lack of

Tactics, or lack of

Excuse me, but weren't we playing away from home tonight. Thought so. Then FFS why did we play Felipe, Daniel and Elrich in the same side? They are loathe to track back and exposes or midefield and defence.

I would have thought that with an inexperienced centre pairing at the back RH would've given them more help in front of them.

One defensive midfielder, two central midelfielders (tack your pick) and then two of either Felipe, Daniel or Elrich providing some ammo for Smeltz.


Sod playing pretty football - it's ugly when you get hammered 4-1.What matters is winning.

Despite my signature, Felipe was poor.

its been the last 2 weeks now when ive queried rickys tactics.Old definatley should not have started and i challenge any1 to think otherwise.and the bench!two defensive midfielders and covs.tim brown shouldve started with lia coming on more as an impact.george or ferrante needed to be on the bench.whats the story.o and what does happen wen lets say o'dor does a hammy.whos going back to centre back.covs hahafelipe2007-10-28 22:00:21

"At one stage Wellington had five corner kicks in the space of two minutes but couldn't find a hole in the opposition's defence".

Old had to start, we had no fit centrebacks - Clebo out with hammy, Dodd suspended.

RH had no choice.

sorry was unaware clebo was injured.but really george paladini wouldve probly dnt better.arghhhhhh im annoyed

Could have played with 3 around the back, 5 in midfeild and 2 up front

Would've asked for trouble. And the three at the back would have been?

Moss

i got faith in ferrante ay.couldnt finish his dinner but does some nice stuff around the park(with the exception of the opposing goalbox)

[QUOTE=felipe]i got faith in ferrante ay.couldnt finish his dinner but does some nice stuff around the park(with the exception of the opposing goalbox)[/QUOTE

thank u santy.ur onto it

Why play three at the back against the league's most potent goalscoring team - a formation we haven't played all year?

Playing away from home is when you want to give them nothing and nick something on the counter.

I would have prefered:

Moss/Paston (either/or)
Christie Old O'Dor Lochhead
Brown
Elrich Johnson Ferrante Daniel
Smeltz

Defending solidly and nicking something on the counter is a nice idea, except that Adelaide are better on the counter (we're not bad either), but I just felt like we were going to concede a goal nearly every time Adelaide got into our half tonight. You never quite had the confidence that one of the centre backs would always be there to clean up. 

we can never start wit old again.we need a right back too

You're right, for a 'star' player he's less than stellar IMO.

3 at the back? we can't handle them with 4, we should be looking at 5.

My thoughts exactly, we should look at playing four backs and a sweeper

I also question the bench we had yesterday. Johnson and Brown probably should have both started, and why's Coveny in the mix at all right now? He's offered next to nothing as a forward with the exception of the game against Perth. When he came on the corner of the Fever Lounge where we were sitting groaned very audibly.

"Goalbox" indeed....

By starting Felipe,Daniel and Elrich we went into the game in attack mode. Against the best attacking side in the league at home......well HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!! 1-4 what did we expect?.                                                                                                                                          How about help shoring up the defense with a couple of defensive midfielders, Brown and Johnston would have helped.Then try and play getting everyone behind the ball and attack at set plays. We would be rapt with a boring 0-0 draw away.

yea, interesting we didnt play two defensive midfielders as we have in other games in front of an inexperienced back four. Cant agree with playing three at the back though, think we needed more in front of the back four

Completely agree.

We've played two holding midfileders all season until this game and we've still conceded a lot of goals.

you can have all the tactics in the world, but at the end of the day, if your team:

1. Continues to surrender possession so easy.

My impression was that it was the team tactic not to push the fullbacks forward, to provide Old and O'Dor with more help. Didn't work in the end though.