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W.i.d.t.h
Topic Started: Nov 11 2006, 09:41 PM (308 Views)
willvbcfc
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Gil Merrick
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Firstly, I'm happy with our current form. Well you have to be with 5 wins on the trot.

Secondly, I'm extremely happy with the players we have at our club. Every single one of them I believe can do a good job for Birmingham City Football Club.

Thirdly, I'm not whining. This is the only thing that is bothering me.

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PLAY WITH MORE FREAKING WIDTH.

It's the only thing that is lacking. We bunch up in the centre and don't use the flanks enough! The easiest way to score is to get it wide, cross it in and finish it off.
I want to see people making Lazaridis-style runs all the time! I don't want to watch Sadler hanging back, or McSheffrey asking for the ball short on the inside.
Make the run down the line and beat the man, get in the cross and we're in for a chance of scoring! Reading scored 70% of their goals like that last season. And they scored over 100.
It's the only thing that is missing from our play. We're not balanced enough on the wings and if we were, we would be tearing teams like Barnsley apart by 4 or 5.
That's for sure.

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Thoughts?
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tevets
Geoff Horsfield
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I agree but I don’t think it will happen. Bruce generally uses the wings to fit in our ‘creative’ players and I don’t see this trend changing.
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I gotta say word up
I mean look at today
Bit of play down the wing from Larsson and there it was
2 0 Game set and match but it could of been done about 15 minutes before
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Willie
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Willie
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Well as i see it the only player we have that can do that naturally is Gray and after today's reception i doubt he is over eager to play.
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willvbcfc
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Gil Merrick
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Larsson can play either right or left wing. Shows he can beat players and cross b-e-a-utifully.

Jules just needs more confidence to beat players. Cos he shows he can do it. Needs that extra kick up the bottom cos he has an attitude problem. I'd put him in the Russian army for 6 months. That'd get him going.

Gary McSheffrey. If he stayed on the wing for the majority of the match, then just came inside at certain points, then that would be much better than having him drift all over the place. It gives us such a lack of width.

Dunny - when fit. On either left or right.

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BUT also I think the full backs need to do more to get forward. In this league you can gamble on going forward, cos teams aren't going to punish you as much/at all if you lose the ball when trying to go past a player.

Sadler needs to bomb past the oppositions right back. He can do it!

Kelly needs to do it MORE.

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Being a winger myself, I love to see wide play. And I havn't seen enough of it for my liking!

Look where the two goals today came from. Larsson down the right, into Bendtner. Back for McSheffrey - goal.

Larsson beats his man. Cross in. Easy finish.

IT'S DANGEROUSLY SIMPLE.
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Willie
Nov 11 2006, 11:01 PM
Well as i see it the only player we have that can do that naturally is Gray and after today's reception i doubt he is over eager to play.

Julian Gray has a poor attitude. At home against Wet Spam when he didn't even try and keep the ball in play in front of the Tilton was one of the many defining moments for me last season. After that he should have been shipped out at the first opportunity.

IMO he's now just a 'bed blocker'. Taking up a salary we could be putting to better use somewhere else. He's disillusioned and the manger doesn't trust him enough to give him a regular shirt in the match day 16.


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bluenose54
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Blues WILL NOT play good attacking football as long as Bruce is there. :applause: Get a good manager in who knows about football then we will start scoring goals.
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Paul Tait
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I remember the first time he played for this club in a friendly and he showed such great touch and pace, he was aggressive on the ball and always tried to run past players, he played like that for the good part of 3 months until the savage saga started

he is a completly different player now, he doesnt look for the ball and rarely uses his pace to go past players, i dont think confidence is the issue, i just think he doesnt want to be here, he spent so long getting out of this division to play for a quality team and now he is back where he started, I think he beleives he is too good to track back and tackle and that his main attributes alone is sufficient to play for a quality team, i partly agree but his attitude is all wrong, he knew this club was in big trouble this time last year and he knew alone that he wouldnt change that so why bother, he has just started playing for the club again considering it is only 7 weeks until the transfer window opens again !
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bluenose54
Nov 11 2006, 11:06 PM
Blues WILL NOT play good attacking football as long as Bruce is there. :applause: Get a good manager in who knows about football then we will start scoring goals.

5 wins out of 5 games - no goals conceded and you still find the need to slag off the manager!! i can't believe what I read on this board from 'some people'
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gazbcfc
Nov 11 2006, 11:53 PM
bluenose54
Nov 11 2006, 11:06 PM
Blues WILL NOT play good attacking football as long as Bruce is there.  :applause: Get a good manager in who knows about football then we will start scoring goals.

5 wins out of 5 games - no goals conceded and you still find the need to slag off the manager!! i can't believe what I read on this board from 'some people'

Bruce has completley turned the club around from the 1-0 defeat at home to Norwich.
5 wins in a row and all clean sheets...what else is better?

:copno: Bruce is not going anywhere!
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Lucky
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Grey is lacking confidence,and im not surprized with the comments on here,
he was played out of position at left back done a good job no worse than anyone else that has played there in the last 2 years,but he make a few mistakes and the fans are onto him,
look at other players,
Bentner has made more mistakes in the last few months than most,
Djc the same,
Mc sheff has drifted out of games regular,
Danns the same,
you could go through the whole team but for some reason we have picked out Grey and Martin Taylor as the scapeboats,Taylor has shut alot of fans up now,
why,playing in his proper position and getting a run in the side, HIS CONFIDENCE IS BACK,
give Grey the same chance and he will perform.
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Er, both goals came from passes/crosses from wide.
McSheffrey's miss came from a run by Sadler down the wing.
I agree that McSheff does drift inside too much, although not as bad as Pennant who would dribble across the pitch to the other touchline.
Larsson gives is plenty of width.
I take your point, but look at the evidence.
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Lucky
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im not just on about yesterdays game.
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Joe
Nov 12 2006, 10:35 AM
Er, both goals came from passes/crosses from wide.
McSheffrey's miss came from a run by Sadler down the wing.
I agree that McSheff does drift inside too much, although not as bad as Pennant who would dribble across the pitch to the other touchline.
Larsson gives is plenty of width.
I take your point, but look at the evidence.

But I'm using that as my evidence!

When we get the ball wide, we cause the other team problems!

I'm saying if we did it more often then we would win games like yesterday 4 or 5 nil!
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will_bcfc
Nov 12 2006, 02:48 PM
Joe
Nov 12 2006, 10:35 AM
Er, both goals came from passes/crosses from wide.
McSheffrey's miss came from a run by Sadler down the wing.
I agree that McSheff does drift inside too much, although not as bad as Pennant who would dribble across the pitch to the other touchline.
Larsson gives is plenty of width.
I take your point, but look at the evidence.

But I'm using that as my evidence!

When we get the ball wide, we cause the other team problems!

I'm saying if we did it more often then we would win games like yesterday 4 or 5 nil!

Getting the ball wide doesn't mean more goals, it means you get the ball up the pitch quicker.

Blues are doing everything right atm. Room for improvement, but that will come.

They're not shipping weak goals and they're scoring. I don't know what anyone else wants. To get world class forwards at this club we have to grind out results first.
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thats where grey comes in on the left,
i prefer mcsheff up front ,he has a good eye for goal,grey has experience playing left back so he would track back ,but he needs a run there.
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Nov 12 2006, 04:19 PM
thats where grey comes in on the left,
i prefer mcsheff up front ,he has a good eye for goal,grey has experience playing left back so he would track back ,but he needs a run there.

i am sorry julian gray should not play for this club again ...( in my opinion ) he is a total bottler who couldnt tackle my nan....

he aint in the same class as mcsheff, and the left is mcsheffs best position...
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