Snowflake RoyalYorkshireRoyal99Snowflake Royal If we have more of the game, and score more goals, defence becomes less of a problem.
Ince's solution is to cripple every other part of the side to protect the defence and we're still leaking goals galore.
So take the pressure off. Up possession, up time in the oppo half, create more chances.
Opposition have to worry more about the threat we carry and can't just pile on the pressure and push us deeper and deeper with no concern for their own goal.
McIntyre and Holmes have both played fullback. Yiadom can play left back, we also have Abrefa.
There are a plethora of possibilities, none of which are being tried.
Whist I don't necessarily disagree, P.Ince has admitted that we don't have that many good technical footballers in our squad. So yes, whilst we need to find a different way to do things, trying to make pretty drastic changes, like upping possession, is just going to kill us even more.
What we need to do is find other ways to improve how we play. We haven't been able to easily dip into the market to find players and our squad is so limited. It's battle-hardened with a battle-hardened manager. So we do have to take those aspects of our game, our strengths, and then look at where we are weak and find other ways to do things.
As I said earlier, I've no problem with conceding possession to the opposition away from home because that's where we are, but we don't carry a threat often enough, players can often make poor decisions etc. So maybe we can change the shape to have a 4-3-3, we still sit deep, have a compact middle third but having 2 players on each flank means we are less vulnerable to being overloaded in the wider areas, thus conceding less crosses etc. On the flip side, it means we can stretch the game on the break and we can have some players who can swing crosses in towards Carroll, rather than relying on wing backs that can't get up the field because of how deep they usually are.
I don't accept we have players who are incapable of maintaining a reasonable possession level when set up appropriately.
But our manager, who works with these players everyday, says things to the contrary.
I take your point though, we do need to take a little bit more care with the ball and there shouldn't be any reason as to why we can't have an extra 5% possession in a game than what we currently do.