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40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:06 pm

Ok we won. :thumbup: :)

Whitts & Noone out of the midfield

Jones on the bench

But we still had 40% possession against a team that may be relegated, ok we were away, but was there an improvement in the midfield ?

I thought the problem has been Jones lack of movement and our willingness just to hump it up to him at every occasion, but he did score goals...

A win is a win and I don't believe you should change a wining side and in our predicament of mid table nothingness I want to try the kids, so Whitts, Noone and jones should stay on the bench.....But, let not get carried away with one victory

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:33 pm

10 minutes in the first half that none of us are ever going to explain.

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:37 pm

did you go ?

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:39 pm

They only had 2 shots on target all game, so we probably went there with the game plan of staying organised and hitting them on the break, like the majority of good away teams do?

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:46 pm

I thought Jones worked hard on Sat, done well closing down defenders. Faded towards the latter stages as he always does though

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:16 pm

llan bluebird wrote:did you go ?


Yep I was there.

Us away support were fairly frustrated for the first 24 minutes as everything was going Rotherhams way. They were by far the better side up to then. You would have been taken away by the men in whites coats if you said we would score 3 in the next ten minutes.

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:27 pm

nubbsy wrote:I thought Jones worked hard on Sat, done well closing down defenders. Faded towards the latter stages as he always does though




I personally thought it was other way around? He looked disinterested up until witts went off! He then got stuck in like rest of team and looked far more dangerous? :thumbup:

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:27 am

I was there, too. Apart from the first twenty minutes, we were comfortable. Slight wobble after they got one back. Our three goals rather messed up the statistics. A lot of their possession was a long way from our goalmouth. We pressed them back well.

Re: 40% possession - what changed then ?

Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:17 pm

Two things changed...more Pace and Vitality! Dont lets get carried away with this though. We need to build on this positive change snd start winning and keeping more possession. A good start would be to add Adeyemi to Ralls and Gunnar In midfield so as to win more ball.