Scotchegg
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Which kind of makes the point that blaming Robinson's tinkering is insane when arguably it was NOT changing that cost us.Sorry for this, but the reason we battered Doncaster is because they let us play our way. It was a schoolboy error. They gave us control from the off, thus the raised tempo.
Thinking Blackpool would do exactly the same wasn't very clever either.
We have a decent defence (far better with Long) and 3 excellent attacking players: Taylor, Barker and Agyei, plus a fairly pedestrian midfield that lacks guile (if only Lee or Henry was fit we'd be better).
As long as we only set up with Taylor up front we're asking to be fucked. The reason we can't pass it out is because there's no movement forward and no threat apart from Barker and Taylor who can be nullified by doubling up on them.
Switching our attack around by playing Agyei and Taylor alternately and even together with Barker and his help mate Shodipo is the only way at the moment to give the opposition fear, and doing that switch regularly will make their manager (if he watches football at all) have to pick his system to meet an undefined threat rather than the same old thing we go with every time.
Props to @PottersRightBoot and @RyanioBirdio who seem to watch the same matches I do. God knows what half the posters here do during games.
I agree that we're missing Long who is more solid in defence and offers a better option further up the pitch. We're also missing someone that can make things happen, McGuane, last seasons Henry, Lee on his day, even Sykes in his West Ham form. I'm less dismissive of Taylor, but cut off his supply and you get nothing. Agyei does at least have the ability to create something from nothing but I'm not sure our 1st half performance would have given him enough of the ball either.