| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN 14:04 - Sep 28 with 18039 views | Edindale |
Hoping for entertainment and a good home win.
Important that we don't underestimate them. |  | | |  |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 15:22 - Oct 1 with 2020 views | Dale_4_Life |
I am a lot closer to the TS theory than the other mindset of we are at the start of a 3 year run at promotion.
This league there is nothing in it. Find the home key and we will have one hell of a shout of promotion this year. Maybe years 2 and 3 could see a runaway money bags.
TS struck a chord with me when he stated in another post on another thread that 3 examples / templates of how to get out of this league can be seen with the Stockport Wrexham and Chesterfield approach. They put the foot on the throats of opponents at Home and ran out comfortable winners by several goals week in week out.
I am totally with Big Jim (100% behind him) and I think he is doing a great job for us, it would be a shame for him and the team to bogged down with complications that are unnecessary. Play to our strengths facing forwards and let the opposition worry about our guns that blaze not get checkmated because we forgot our king was left exposed. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 15:44 - Oct 1 with 1942 views | James1980 |
The year one football target for the 3 year plan is to achieve a playoff spot. | |
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| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 16:06 - Oct 1 with 1869 views | Dalenet |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 07:17 - Oct 1 by NigelWatson |
Jim is doing an excellent job. All things considered, the crowds are excellent.
There is no future in playing 'Gerrit forward' football for a handful of clueless, elderly dinosaurs, who never played a game a competitive football in their lives |
What a load of rollocks. But you have always been blinkered. One of the serious posts on this thread is from somebody who played semi pro for years. He will know more about it than most and I respect his judgement over yours anyday of the week. Just because we have new owners doesn't mean we have open chequebooks. We need to entertain the crowd and start to build on the 2500 we have today. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 16:11 - Oct 1 with 1842 views | Dalenet |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 07:18 - Oct 1 by James1980 |
Haven't the new players, to a man, in their introduction interviews, mentioned the way JM likes to play, as one of the reasons for signing? |
To be fair James, I have never heard a new signing saying he came here because he was desperate and he didn't give a toss about the manager, the club or the fans. What else would they say? I don't think anybody is saying we shouldn't play out from the back and play it on the floor, but we are concerned that the tactics at home and away are different and our home form ultimately drives our financial stability and whether we are in the play-offs or not. That is all. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 17:14 - Oct 1 with 1693 views | Dale_4_Life |
The playing out sensibly from the back is something here to stay (for now until Pep tries something new). We do this quite well and I can see some advantages.
Its the drilling of the ball to a defensive midfielder on the edge of our own box with at least two opposition forwards on his shoulder that i will never buy into!. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 17:33 - Oct 1 with 1631 views | wheniwasyourage |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 07:17 - Oct 1 by NigelWatson |
Jim is doing an excellent job. All things considered, the crowds are excellent.
There is no future in playing 'Gerrit forward' football for a handful of clueless, elderly dinosaurs, who never played a game a competitive football in their lives |
a duck is actually a dinosaur, I had duck for dinner last night, imagine that, I was actually eating a dinosaur - Tesco meal deal....
just thought I'd share that with the group. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 18:06 - Oct 1 with 1545 views | 442Dale |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 17:14 - Oct 1 by Dale_4_Life |
The playing out sensibly from the back is something here to stay (for now until Pep tries something new). We do this quite well and I can see some advantages.
Its the drilling of the ball to a defensive midfielder on the edge of our own box with at least two opposition forwards on his shoulder that i will never buy into!. |
I’d agree with that in simplistic terms. We either accept how the manager prefers to play whilst acknowledging the shortcomings of not being varied enough when they sit in or identify someone else who can do better. He won’t change his overall philosophy but I do believe he is open to changing how that’s employed in different ways, and that he should try and be more effective at that.
If he was completely stuck to one tactic we wouldn’t have the good displays, nor would we have seen the performances that fell short like the last two home games and York away. By all accounts we played well at Eastleigh going forward but couldn’t defend. This is football.
Football has changed and we don’t all like it. But Jim McNulty won’t. |  |
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| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 20:35 - Oct 1 with 1382 views | bluevein64 |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 17:14 - Oct 1 by Dale_4_Life |
The playing out sensibly from the back is something here to stay (for now until Pep tries something new). We do this quite well and I can see some advantages.
Its the drilling of the ball to a defensive midfielder on the edge of our own box with at least two opposition forwards on his shoulder that i will never buy into!. |
I agree Dale 4 life playing out from the back is certainly here to stay, it seems that everyone wants to "play out form the back" even my Son's Dog and Duck FC Manager wants to play out from the back even though one of the full backs can't trap the ball, it would be comical if it wasn't so sad (it certainly isn't sensible) watching the ball bounce off the lads big toe and/or shins into the path of an oncoming opposition forward, reminds me of some of the Dale's similar clangers , it's been said many times if you want to play the Pep way then you need the calibre of the City players ! |  | | |
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| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:17 - Oct 1 with 1275 views | onedalefan |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 14:02 - Oct 1 by TalkingSutty |
Agree with that but it's not a tactic that hasn't been around for decades. It's one that most home teams encounter. They normally get around it by passing the ball quickly, getting it out wide and switching play, midfielders making runs into the box. The last couple of games has seen our defenders cautiously passing it between each other up to the halfway line, the pass to the wide player is declined in preference to giving the ball to the central defender who then rolls the ball around the floor backwards and forwards whilst perusing the options ahead of him. Everybody in the ground then waits in frustrated anticipation until he eventually decides to kick the ball up to nobody in particular or a player who has two defenders marking him, or straight through to the goalkeeper. Those are the tactics that are employed, they must be because we see them too often to be accidental. If they're intended to draw the away team out then they don't work, as we've seen over the last eighteen months. They are counter productive and assist the away team, it's easy to play against for a half decent team. We have a lot of talented forward and midfield players, give them the ball quickly and let them express themselves, instead of relying on the likes of EEL/Sassi/Ferguson to instigate attacks, it's ridiculous really. [Post edited 1 Oct 14:07]
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Would love to know how Tarryn and Tobi feel when they are totally ignored out wide, in acres of space, while the ball is passed around between defenders. Are they ignored in training? |  | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:35 - Oct 1 with 1231 views | EllDale |
My impression, on Saturday at least, was that every time that Tarryn received the ball whilst he was playing on the left, there were two men on him straightaway. He never got to receive the ball in space and facing the Braintree goal.
We have last year’s National League left back of the season playing on the left hand side of defence and rarely venturing forward. | | | |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:41 - Oct 1 with 1214 views | 442Dale |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:35 - Oct 1 by EllDale |
My impression, on Saturday at least, was that every time that Tarryn received the ball whilst he was playing on the left, there were two men on him straightaway. He never got to receive the ball in space and facing the Braintree goal.
We have last year’s National League left back of the season playing on the left hand side of defence and rarely venturing forward. |
Disagree. Beckwith has notably joined in our attacks when we are playing well. What Braintree did really well was try to prevent that by playing balls down our left channel, in behind Allarakhia which meant Beckwith then had to hold his position more.
TAR has put in more crosses in the last 12 games than most of our wide players have in a season recently! Do recognise how sides are looking to shut this down and Allarakhia especially appear to be on the periphery of games a bit. | |
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| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:53 - Oct 1 with 1184 views | TVOS1907 |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:41 - Oct 1 by 442Dale |
Disagree. Beckwith has notably joined in our attacks when we are playing well. What Braintree did really well was try to prevent that by playing balls down our left channel, in behind Allarakhia which meant Beckwith then had to hold his position more.
TAR has put in more crosses in the last 12 games than most of our wide players have in a season recently! Do recognise how sides are looking to shut this down and Allarakhia especially appear to be on the periphery of games a bit. |
Didn't Mitchell score at Hartlepool from something like TAR's sixth or seventh cross in that game alone? |  |
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| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 06:35 - Oct 2 with 953 views | Dale_4_Life |
| TODAY V BRAINTREE TOWN on 21:53 - Oct 1 by TVOS1907 |
Didn't Mitchell score at Hartlepool from something like TAR's sixth or seventh cross in that game alone? |
In 12 games so far our main threat is down that right hand side.
The commentary from the Aldershot game on DAZN waxed Lyrical about it.
The relationship and understanding between Gordon and TAR is something we have not seen in a very long time. Its only getting better as well and when TAR drives forward and pings the ball back across the 6 yard line with on rushing Dale forwards it will lead to plenty of opportunity. Sadly at Home we dont see enough of it and its this type of edge of your seat Wingery that paying punters love.
Opposition could double up of course but that then leaves so many spaces through the middle or down the left hand side. [Post edited 2 Oct 6:37]
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