Against a top 6 Championship side, home or away, you won't win. And you'll be hard pressed to get a draw. We'll prove this over and over this season. If Norwich played 3 up front against a top 6 Championship side, they wouldn't win, and they have the best team in the division. If we improve the squad in the summer and play 3 up front against any of the top six sides next season we won't win any of those games. We've undoubtedly moved on and have a better squad than we've had for a long time. We have a manager who can motivate the team and get them playing and is hugely likeable. But if he doesn't look at adapting his tactics to suit the opposition he is going to nullify his vast potential. No one else is, he'll do it to himself. On the plus side, we will beat a number of teams who are not promotion candidates. We have already and we will again. We're a decent side, but if there wasn't this scorched earth policy that only allows for one system of play and everything else is inferior, we could be much better. For long periods in this game we were much the better team. We have been in a number of games against the top sides. We haven't been unlucky in not turning these performances into results. The system we play doesn't allow for it. It restricts our opportunities to score and opens us up from a simple boot forward with no attacking play from the opposition at all. There are far too many weaknesses in how we play for a good team to exploit and the same result will happen time and time again, no matter how well we play.
Didn't we beat watford at oakwell with 3 upfront? We are poor against the top sides but genrally i think that's down to the press and the high line top sides will just pick you off.
Struber's tactics, together with some desperation and good fortune, seemed to work better against the bigger sides, and be awful against the struggling sides*. So perhaps they could take elements from those tactics. But that would have to be weighed up against the risks and potential confusion of training for and learning an alternative system. Would being slightly more competitive against the top sides be worth sacrificing some of the effectiveness against the rest? *Or perhaps it wasn't Struber's tactics at all. Perhaps players like Brown were better suited to playing the better sides. Is Woodrow missing Brown by the way?
I think if you watch Saturdays match and yesterday’s, back to back, you’ll see two completely different tactical games from us. In other words, we do have different tactics for different circumstances,,,,,,,IMO of course
I think Val needs to read Bossman excellent analysis in the Watford minority report thread tbh. If he can condense and convey the multitude of points he makes I think we’ll be reight .
