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Re: Match comments

By Sludgy652/1 09:19Fri Jan 2 09:19:45 2026In response to Re: Match comments

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I'm not worried about relegation, more that the form and style of play has dropped off a cliff compared to the first 2 months of the season. Since Bradford at home our performances, bar Stockport, have been dire at best. There's no 'zip' to our game, no creativity, and a lack of basic passing. Too often we resort to hoof ball. Reid is isolated most of the game, especially if Kemp isn't playing. We sit too deep at home and fail to dictate the game. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, playing Reid up top on his own does not play to his strength. He will never be a 'hold up' striker, which when playing 4-2-3-1 you really need. He is best suited to play off another striker. Continually playing against 2 defensive giants, and pumping long balls to him is a complete waste of time. And because we play so deep, we don't get forward in numbers, or quickly enough. The times I count 4 or 5 opposition players in our box, yet when we attack its 2 or 3. This may go some way to explain why we are defensively sound, but Rev's needs to find a happy medium between defence and attack. At the moment its too heavily sided towards defence. In the warm up you see the guys practicing one touch football mini games. yet we barely see any of it during the match. It's slow, cumbersome, and generally ends in a long hoof because the player with the ball has a lack of options.

Edited by Sludgy65 at 09:21:34 on 2nd January 2026