Integrating New Players

[Hamilton Saint]

Surely the creation of team spirit (which includes the integration of new players into a settled squad) is one of NA's notable skills. He seems to really know how to generate a cohesive group.

 

There should be no problem.

[alpine_saint]

Surely the creation of team spirit (which includes the integration of new players into a settled squad) is one of NA's notable skills. He seems to really know how to generate a cohesive group.

 

There should be no problem.

 

Hopefully this is the case; at least we know he isnt Burley.

[derry]

Twice this year we have found out unexpected plusses with established players. Blend and balance is all important. We cover Lallana with Chaplow and he makes a decent job of it then Lallana comes back, Connolly is struggling so Guly is switched inside and Chaplow comes in on the right and is a revelation. He then is injured so we try to do the same thing again but Schneiderlin is poor out of his normal position, the three midfielders can't play together so it is ditched. Then at Coventry we are short and struggling Cork is put wide right and the midfield clicks again. Same again against Notts Forest, we now have a replacement for the sorely missed Chaplow.

 

The management even with players they know well struggled to get to grips with the blend. The new players will have known abilities but the trick will be to blend the combinations so that the players complement each other rather than the case of the three central midfielders in the wrong positions who failed miserably to blend but switched around looked devastating. The new players will have to be fed in gently, I can see De Ridder still important on the right, Falque supplementing Lallana, Lambert assisted by Guly, Connolly, Lee +1 to allow players to keep fresh legs. Cork and Chaplow to be the combative wide right first hour players with four central midfield options including Schneiderlin and Hammond.

I would like to see another left sided central defender unless Jaidi is fully fit but he still looks a way off that as he pulled out of a match due to hard ground,

 

Adkins is a manager that has always managed to get his teams producing a greater output than the sum of the parts by good blend. Okay he got it wrong with the central midfielders in the original selection but latterly they were good when positionally changed. They then looked entirely different to the pedestrian way we played with the original selection. First time around the blend wasn't there but switched around it produced good movement and teamwork. We have to find the best way to integrate the new players so there is improved output with the players blending together.

[Jesus Reigned]

I suggest visiting a pyschotherapist in that case...

 

A post count of 17,903 against 587 would suggest that you are more in need of a visit than me.