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philmpv

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You won't get me at the game vs stevenage, because they owe me £26, I can honestly say after spending that at the game, £13.50 on the coach, perhaps £10 on some food and about two or three pints, it was all a total waste, what did I get in return? Nothing, literally nothing.

 

It's a football match, not Sale of the Century. You pay your money and hope your side will win, and it's the same whether your side comes from Burslem, Bolton or Barcelona. If they do, great; if they don't, there's always next week.

 

Owning a football club falls into much the same category. I can't remember who said it, but it was along the lines of 'if you want to make a small fortune from football, start with a large one'.

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Granty played for his move, almost got it done only for Pompey to change the fee at the last minute. He knows he's off in Jan/June so has now taken his foot off the gas.

 

It's just a shame for us because without a 100% committed Granty, we look like a shambles.

If thats the case then why doesnt he go now .

We r playing every game with ten men then and the respect us paying customers have for him will lead to anger towards him .

His he really that good ? r all our other players that bad .

I watch the games and he always starts the season well then fades away .

Why is it a general hardworking man on the street can give 110 per cent to earn

 

his wages and respect yet footballers can drop there standards to a level worse than mediocrity yet still command better money than the hardworking family man who has just witnessed a no show from a player or players who weeks ago were brilliant .

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He cant go now because its not the transfer window.

 

I still think the problem is not solely down to the 2 defensive midfielders playing poorly. If you're playing the formation then you need quality and some pace around the defence and 2 defensive to make things happen.

 

I hate to make this comparison but look down the road at what they have around their defensive midfielders, 2 wingers who can create and score and interchange with the number 10, who is also creative and can score. Then they have a forward who throughout his career has been a sole target man to hold the ball and bring others in.

 

I know they're light years away and have big premier league money, but the principle and formation is still the same. My point being is that we are very defensive and we haven't got the quality out wide to cause problems, to enable us to take the game to the opposition. Imagine us having wingers Guppy and McCarthy in this team! We don't get our full backs joing in enough and crucially we haven't got a forward who can hold the ball either. In general with our formation we just don't get forward quick enough in support.

 

So to summarise I think we can change who we want out of Tavares and Grant but we would still be employing the same personnel and formation around them. Playing a left back at left mid, a forward or right back at right mid, a left winger as a number 10 and a forward who can't hold the ball up will mean we get found out eventually.

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Granty played for his move, almost got it done only for Pompey to change the fee at the last minute. He knows he's off in Jan/June so has now taken his foot off the gas.

 

It's just a shame for us because without a 100% committed Granty, we look like a shambles.

 

Said the same thing earlier, wouldn't surprise me if he has a move lined up.

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Formations need specialists to be effective, square pegs don't work very well if at all.

 

 

This is true in the main as a specialist has to have learned the role(a young lad will have to have time to learn it) combined with how it works with his team mates roles with aim to keep shape with or without the ball for defending or attacking.However their will always be the need for utility players with varying roles.Just a case of players knowing when and where they need to be at any particular passage of play anywhere on the pitch which of course should be done in training.

 

a good phrase i can remember being said is :

 

Do the players suit the formation or the formation suit the players--- at present dont think either way is currently working for the vale.

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I've been saying this for months but I can't fathom why we have never tried 3.5.2. I'm positive it would suit the players at our disposal far better.

Knops could play as a centre back to complement the two other right footers and provide the defence with an extra body.

Purkiss and Hart have the attacking instincts and engines to be capable wing backs.

And we can then play with two up front.

 

I'm an armchair expert, as we all are, but surely to goodness that type of setup wouild better suit our players.

 

PV1973 is absolutely right. Great post. Look at the players and then fit the system around their strengths, not the opposite.

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I can't understand why players are in the side, then disappear, then come back. For instance Kelly, Purkiss and Amoros for instance this season have all been in the side then don't even make the bench the following week without explanation then the week after are starting the game. Is this a poor form of squad rotation? I just don't understand the logic behind it. It seems there is a lot of chopping and changing to get the formation right but progressively making us worse.

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