I predicted this last week, Yeti. Even before the real pressure went on, we went defensive. The best way to stop your opponent scoring, is to kick goals yourself. Of course to do this you need targets up front, so we recruit Hogan, the "Great Purple Hope" and proceed to try to turn him into a midfielder. The forward most likely to succeed as a mid (Walters) is used as our marking target, along with a first or second gamer (Schultz) both players are 6 ft at best.
To many times again, yesterday, players were trying to kick to forwards running away from them because they were not in the 50, in a position to lead at the mids. When does the penny drop? 1 forward inside 20 meters leading will have no space to lead into because 6 other forwards are trying to get inside 50 just as he wants to lead. What Lyon is doing is not working, but he is to arrogant to admit it so he blames players, lack of pressure and dubious skills. Look in the bloody mirror and then do the right thing. (quit)
