Slating our players

[derry]

The young players certainly have talent. Unfortunately because of mismanagement they have been thrown in collectively before their time.

 

Young players need help from better players to be able to break through. It is a learning process and our young players in the end will be better for the experience, however collectively we are not performing teamwise.

 

Our team shape together with a lack of discipline and direction is the reason we are not more successful.

 

If the team can look back at yesterday's match and see how they were outplayed and beaten by a very disciplined team, containing many experienced full international very expensive players, they could benefit enormously.

 

Copying the way Utd play would be a good way to go. They were wide on the touchlines for a start, we play narrow. They attack with width, primarily with seven with pace and defend with seven basically.

 

Their wide men don't allow themselves to be sucked in, they wait and allow the defence to move towards the immediate attack, then attack the undefended back post, outnumbering the overloaded defence.

 

We attack in smaller numbers and our narrow shape sucks the wide men to the near post allowing the defence to compact.

 

They defend from the front delaying, therefore allowing their basic seven to get goalside.

 

If we did nothing more than copying what we could, and adopting the clear principles that are used by Utd, we would improve immensely.

 

Man Utd are brilliant players, playing in a totally disciplined framework, dominated by a manager nobody dare cross.

[manzo]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7771014.stm

[Gemmel]

If they're old, well-paid, don't care, should know better fine.

 

If they are having the fourth/tenth game of their career and learning.

 

It simply shows you up to know little about football, to be inconsiderate and frankly not much of a fan.

 

There is a lot wrong at this club. Laying the blame at the foot of people who are paid some of the lowest wages in the league, with no experience, badly organised is such a shame.

 

In the old days we supported our own.

 

Whilst i agree with the sentiment, do you not think that Ollie didn't get slated at half time by his manager for giving O Shea a free header.... If he didn't, he bloody well should have done and by default that surely means the fans are entitled to view their opinions. Age, expereince or ability is irrelevent if we can't get these simple things right. If you were playing in Tyro, you could expect to get slated for that sort of mistake. It's sloppy - nothing else.

 

And also, it doesn't always have a negative effect. I watched in disbelief Mcgoldricks performance against Forest, he had his hands on his hips within ten minutes of the start and also when the ball was in the air from a corner. The crowed turned on him and jeered his substitution. I said at the time, it wouldn't do him any harm and although i didnt see the game i understand he was excellent in his next performance.