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The reason you play 4231 is for versatility, but if your entire attacking strategy is seeminly every pass must go to ACD and he must cut in, then youre not being versatile, and thus the entire team's attack is broken. 4231 also requires everyone to be working, and the middle 2 are the key to that, one has to be a bull dog and the other has to be a box to box type who can pass. Without that the core of the team doesn't work, i think we had that for a bit with Simons and Erhahon. Since Sheehan has come into the team the middle 2 have looked poor and i think its becasue he doesnt fit either of those two types, he can pass but thats about it.

Cogley is a good standard League 1 right wing back, but he was never a leading one, and he surely wasn't a right back. If we were going to play with a 4, that right back position has been a pain point all season.

New system. Plus I'd blood a couple of the best youths, like Toby Ritchie, if we go for the dual no10, SS had at Plymouth. Along with letting Cogly back into the team in the wing back positon.

At Amazon we had this saying that going along the lines of If something isn't working and the KPI says it is, the KPI is broken. So many times i've heard...well the kpi says it's right while processes fail and outcomes decline. Like Evatt with his passing stats, when that's your focus you create a team that can only pass, which is why he removed any kind of versatility in the squad over time. Which is ultimately why when he said "Changing me won't change anything, it's the same players." he was correct. When you look, not at the formation, that's obviously changed, but at the underlying tactics, we have in essence recreated Evatts tactics. I don't understand why because these are not the tactics he used at Plymouth or Stoke. He even has this years Ricardo Santos (George Johnson) coming forward to do long floaty passes and being caught in a poor positon.

The reason everyone thinks ACD is great is because of those early performances, where he'd cut in and blast one in from 30 yards. Guess what, everyone else saw that too and doubled up on him and boom the goals stopped. When your tactics are entirly focused on getting the ball to 1 team member, dont be suprised when the other team mark him out of the game. Our problem is we've never over come that, and that focus on him to get goals, has made him cut inside to shoot even when he should have got to the byline or redistributed the ball for someone else. When's the last time this team has even attacked right through the middle i cant even remember, and that is the fault of tactics. ACD in a team that isn't entirely focued on getting the ball to him as their sole means of attack is a potent tool. People having a go at Gale remember under Parkinson how many times did our wingers score in League 1 Sammy Ameobi - 3 James Henry - 1 Our tactics right now are insane, and i hear through the grape vine the players think so too.

Yeah and they were idiots for doing that.

At Plymouth his tactics focused on wide overloads, early crosses, and late-arriving midfield runners, the attacks were direct and aggressive, often bypassing slower build-up to exploit space quickly. It's a system which empowered individuals like Whittaker and Hardie to drive at defenders and take risks. At Bolton his tactics are based on sustained pressure rather than fast breaks, recycling possession to create better angles and structured rotations instead of free‑form wide play. The tactics we currently use will never work in League One.

Well he played 3-4-2-1 for a start. Need me to go into more detail? He played 4231 at Stoke and we play nothing like how they played either, it's crazy.

Ill say it again for people who seemingly didnt get the memo. The mindset stuff being an issue was one of a million excuses Evatt trotted out, it was nonsense then and its nonsense now.

I can't get around my head that you would win League One with Plymouth with a certain set of tactics, come back to League One at Bolton, and then play totally different set of tactics. If it was just a little experiment at the start of the season that wasn't working, i could understand but it's never really worked especially away from home. Plus with it not working you'd then expect a manager to revert back to the League One winning tactics he'd used before. It doesnt make sense. There's no logic to it.

No.

Yet again for people that seem clueless xG is Bollocks

Cant wait to hear the post match comments from schumacher. Let me guess we dominated xG again.

Only 3 coming away from this well are Dalby, Morley and Conway. Not that i really blame the players. Miller and GJ struggling.

Ill according to the BEN and off back to Chelsea according to some.

Fucking hell its almost like getting balls in the box is dangerous, who'd have thought?

Come on Burstow you have to score that.

fuck off

No amount of money fixes this.

This is what happens when your tactics get found out ala Evatt.

fuck off !!

Miller good save.

To play 4231 properly, the middle you need 1 bull dog and 1 passer/box to boxer, Sheehan aint either.

It's not ACD's fault our entire attacking tactics seem to be, get the ball to ACD no matter what.

Trying to keep everyone happy was never going to happen and he's stupid for even attempting it.