It's not about us actually winning by five every game, it's about getting players in the right position to have the opportunity to win by five every game. To do that you need to have strikers playing in strikers positions rather than right midfielders in strikers positions because strikers know where they should be and Lee Martin is nearly always twenty yards out of position during any attack. Matt Taylor us the one bemoaning the lack of goals yet he does nothing to change the situation.
But it's very hard to be solid at the back and score a lot of goals, you're usually good at one or the other (unless you're Man City or Liverpool).
Agreed. It's a balance. We look really solid at the moment. I'm a huge Lee Martin fan but 5 goals in 50 odd games suggests we're not going to see too many goals from him. It feels like Martin and Williams are a little unsure where to go when Bowman has ended up out wide or drawn a defender out of position. You're relying on Law to come in the box (which he's good at). Williams is good at beating a player or two, cutting inside then not really knowing what to do. Martin is ratting about being a pest (very effectively). But it's hard to see them scoring too many.
How can he be one of our better players when he is nearly always twenty yards out of position in relation to where he is being asked to play? He should be one of our better plays when he plays in the correct position. As for the rest of it, you won't really know with Seymour until you give him a chance and by that I mean a run of games. At least his mind will be working to where he should be and taking Lee Martin out for him would have any effect on the solid defence. He's playing up front, or at least, supposed to be. The least Taylor should be doing is putting Matt Jay in instead who, although he's slowly drifting back into being a midfield player, grew up as a striker and knows where he should be positioned if he is asked to play there.
Fair enough crocks, i just dont need to have to do that. I dont go to see what he is wearing, to hear what he has to say before or after, to learn his decisions, to hear reasons or excuses. I only go to watch what happens on the pitch. Im proud of my team just like you, but I was proud of my team last year and the year before that and many many times before that. In fact I've never lost pride in my club.
Do we know where he's being asked to play and where he is supposed to be?
So if he is doing all what you reckon in the first line how is he offering a goal threat when he always at least twenty yards away from the goal? Yesterday there were at least two if not three balls that went flying across the box in the first 15 minutes that had missed out Bowman attacking the near post where we should have had somebody coming in at the back post but Lee Martin was nowhere to be seen. It's simply where he should have been and if we had a proper striker playing that's where they would have been. We would have been two or three up inside 15 minutes and it would have been goodnight Vienna for Village Green Rovers. City can then relax and play some nice football instead of having to dig deep and play ugly and leave the opposition still in with a fighting chance. It's cost us against Crewe last week. It cost us against Newport. It cost us against Swindon. It cost us against Orient. Not putting teams to bed when we are dominating because we haven't got the bodies in the box because half of our strikeforce is playing twenty yards behind where he needs to be.
