Fitness and lack of understanding I think

I agree that failure to make such simple passes can''t just be down to coaching as even the worst coaches will have players passing and professional footballers should be able to do that regardless of their coach.

But I do think the cganges in personnel and formation don;t help. Farke had them playing in patterns that they presumably had drilled into them endlessly. Arguably too much as they were incapable of departing from them at times. But they did at least always seem to have a basic understanding of where their team mates were and the runs they were making. Now that just seems completely lacking hence so many passes going astray. That and the fact that players like Nunez had pretty poor pass completion stats when we signed them.

Posted By: Jim on October 19th 2022 at 10:05:07

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Is there a single player in our team/squad who is playing at their best/usual level? (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 19, 08:33:32
- Lots of hard truth in this sadly (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, Oct 19, 11:14:44
- I agree pretty much. (NCFC) - APB, Oct 19, 09:38:40
- This is the red flag for me (NCFC) - camcan, Oct 19, 08:39:45
  - We're too stretched,as you say we move the ball too slowly and we often take one (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 19, 08:46:07
  - Gibbs is going backwards now as well. Of course all players have natural dips in form but (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 19, 08:44:36
    - maybe it's a fitness issue (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Oct 19, 09:27:54
      - Fitness and lack of understanding I think (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 19, 10:05:07
  - Do they want to get promoted that badly now (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 08:44:23
    - I know your theory is that basically Deansmith and Daniel are as competent as each other, (NCFC) - Bravo win or die, Oct 19, 09:17:47
      - My theory is that Emi feeding Pukki made us great (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 09:27:53
    - Emi and a superior coach and playing style (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, Oct 19, 09:04:41
      - We were still shite without him under Farke (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 09:12:03
        
        No, that’s not true. We may not have won as many, but we still played well (n/m) (NCFC) - Bravo win or die, Oct 19, 09:18:41
        
        We barely ever won IIRC (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 09:28:37
        
        Seriously you’re like Pants and Roeder (NCFC) - camcan, Oct 19, 09:45:21
        
        Of course he wasn’t a poor manager (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 09:52:17
        
        The thing about Emi is that other teams do get promoted without him (NCFC) - jamesward, Oct 19, 10:04:15
        
        Yes those teams find another way to play (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 10:06:25
        
        It wasn't just Emi either - Stiepi, not a great player, was (NCFC) - jamesward, Oct 19, 10:10:12
    - Do the players want to get promoted? (NCFC) - Chicken, Oct 19, 08:57:14
- Hernandez and Gibson are as expected (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 19, 08:37:32
  - Gibson has shown he's capable of a bit better before (n/m) (NCFC) - jAC, Oct 19, 08:47:44
    - I actually thought Gibson did quite well last night and that aside from the goal we (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 19, 08:53:54
      - Thing is, those errors have occurred on a frequent basis (n/m) (NCFC) - APB, Oct 19, 09:39:21

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