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What's next for Wales?

Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:31 am

What is next for Wales?

With the FAW looking to offer Coleman a new contract which will have him here for another couple years do you think Coleman can jump off cloud 9 and realise the formation and tactics he uses doesn't suit our welsh players and change it to a more of a attacking formation or will he just drag welsh football through the mud even more?

Also do you think if fans don't turn up to games or hold up banners and chanting Coleman out for 90 minutes either Coleman will leave by himself or the FAW will sack him?

Re: What's next for Wales?

Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:52 am

What's next for Wales is to get the manager (presumably Coleman) to work on getting his best players on the pitch for everyone of our European Championship Qualifiers. As disappointing as last night was you can't really expect go into highly competitive International match with a patched up defence and expect to win.

Coleman needs to talk with players like Ashley Williams about not getting stupid bookings and to James Collins and make sure he is committed to the cause. There in one go you have a Premier League quality centre-back partnership instead of middle aged Danny Gabbidon and Swansea's reserve Left-Back.

I would go with Ramsey and/or Vaughan/Ledley as the 2 holding players, with Williams, Collison and Bale as the attacking midfielders. We are short of a striker to lead the line but one of Church, Vokes or Kanu-Robson has to step up.

However, which ever formation is used we need our best players and that is where the manager (whoever he is) has to make his mark.

Re: What's next for Wales?

Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:06 pm

IMO the 4-2-3-1 ain't working we need 2 up top, ye we ain't got a striker who scores week in week out but with players like Williams, ledley, Robson kanu and bale behind them I think they can help the strikers get us goàls we need cause ATM we are a 1 man team and it shouldn't be like that. So a 4-3-1-2 or a 4-3-3 formation would be good for our players.

Re: What's next for Wales?

Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:07 pm

Tippy tappy football with one or even two defensive midfielders is trendy at the moment. So Coleman decides that's what he will do, even though he doesn't have the players or the time to drill the players. Do you honestly think Swansea woke up one day and decided to do this, how they play has developed through acquisition and coaching over seasons.

When Yorath had international forwards he developed a system that suited all the attacking talent available to him, not play them in a rigid off the shelf system and play them in a unfamiliar role.

Sadly however likeable Coleman is, he is a follower. We need a maverick, because its a rigged game in favour of the massive footballing countries with pools of talent. If we try to play by the same rules (formations) as the big boys we will always come bottom.

Dutch Ray would have been a gamble, but so was Hughes and Speed.

Toshack, Flynn, Gould, Coleman are all old school, we can't win playing old school.

But what is winning for the gentleman of the FAW ? A free flight, expenses paid to Geneva or Rio for themselves and a partner ?
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