by ferrarilover » 27 Jul 2014, 23:47
Chris will trust the defenders to do the defending and the midfielders to do the midfielding. I'm not at all concerned about not being a big, horrible side. At our level (both conference and L2), you only need to be good at one thing. There's no need for total football. Unless we sack every player on our books (with the possible exception of Pearce) and replace them all with guys who are well over six foot and thirteen stone, we aren't going to be a physical side. What CH is going for is a footballing side. It's ok to be non-physical if the opposition can't get near the ball. That's what we're going for this season, football, passing, getting it wide and crossing with pace. Keeping possession, attacking with pace and defending with discipline, rather than last year's mad-scramble-then-watch-as-the-opponent-scores-unopposed approach. It won't matter that teams turn up with players signed from the local basketball team, because the ball will be in our possession and on the floor for a lot of the game and we'll simply pass it around while they flounder about the pitch in a daze. Yes, we'll lose the aerial battle in the midfield, but we're prepared for that be having a group of players who are going to get us at least a couple of goals every game and a defence that is well drilled to deal with the likely threat that we will face. Ricey/Seabright will be playing it out from the back and we'll be looking to negate the opposition's strengths, as well as play to our own (which is something we didn't do well enough last season, which is why teams frequently scored against us with their only bloody chance. They stuck with plan A and it worked eventually).
Harding's a big lad, as is Briscoe and Richards will happily chuck himself today about. Ajala (until January, when he leaves for the Championship) is also an excellent tackler). We're not necessarily entirely without physicality, it's just that it's not going to be our go-to plan.
Matt.
Chris will trust the defenders to do the defending and the midfielders to do the midfielding. I'm not at all concerned about not being a big, horrible side. At our level (both conference and L2), you only need to be good at one thing. There's no need for total football. Unless we sack every player on our books (with the possible exception of Pearce) and replace them all with guys who are well over six foot and thirteen stone, we aren't going to be a physical side. What CH is going for is a footballing side. It's ok to be non-physical if the opposition can't get near the ball. That's what we're going for this season, football, passing, getting it wide and crossing with pace. Keeping possession, attacking with pace and defending with discipline, rather than last year's mad-scramble-then-watch-as-the-opponent-scores-unopposed approach. It won't matter that teams turn up with players signed from the local basketball team, because the ball will be in our possession and on the floor for a lot of the game and we'll simply pass it around while they flounder about the pitch in a daze. Yes, we'll lose the aerial battle in the midfield, but we're prepared for that be having a group of players who are going to get us at least a couple of goals every game and a defence that is well drilled to deal with the likely threat that we will face. Ricey/Seabright will be playing it out from the back and we'll be looking to negate the opposition's strengths, as well as play to our own (which is something we didn't do well enough last season, which is why teams frequently scored against us with their only bloody chance. They stuck with plan A and it worked eventually).
Harding's a big lad, as is Briscoe and Richards will happily chuck himself today about. Ajala (until January, when he leaves for the Championship) is also an excellent tackler). We're not necessarily entirely without physicality, it's just that it's not going to be our go-to plan.
Matt.
