Match Day Thread Huddersfield v Hull City

I have been called a twat plenty of times on here but it doesn’t bother me cause I am sometimes, and you can’t take **** too personally it’s a forum it happens too many on here take everything too personally.

 

Jesus **** what a load of bollocks this argument is .

Have a kip and come back tomorrow Ric.

 

Always prudent to make a note of the pile-on merchants.

 

Just how many City-supporting Celtic fans are there I wonder?

 

They beat Witton 3-2. Dominated for most of the match but conceded a couple of soft goals

 

Didn't go, didn't watch, didn't listen. Don't know if I even cared.

51 years following City and this is where I am.

I'll be there on Wednesday.

Just **** off McCann.

 

As Shark has mentioned, if 4-3-3 was McCann’s intention, it certainly wasn’t what they were playing. That was a bog standard 4-4-2 all day long. Not the 4-3-3 that got us promoted nor the 3-5-2 that beat Boro, but what appeared to be a new, random, formation chucked at the wall to see if it stuck.

 

Interesting
So who was playing in the 4 midfield slots and the two up front were?

 

Harmonious as ever I see

 

Am I one?

 

Are you?

 

I’ll rephrase my question

Do you consider me to be a pile-on merchant that it would be prudent to make a note of?

 

No

 

Smith Wilks
KLP Smallwood Honeyman Cannon

 

Do you consider me to be a pile-on merchant that it would be prudent to make a note of?

 

That’s not right though. Cannon was left of the midfield three, often popping up close to Potter, and Honeyman was to the right. KLP was generally on the left but drifted infield, Wilks did the same from the right (albeit slowly). I think the idea was to squeeze the two wide forwards more narrow and get close to Smith. It meant they all got in each other’s way and lots of passing triangles ensued. Ending in a feeble cross to no one in particular.

As soon as Eaves came on, amazingly, the crosses stopped.

 

if KLP was supposed to be on the left of a front three someone should have told him to play 10 yards higher up the pitch.

 

I don't think it was the "bog standard 4 4 2" you mentioned, and I don't think it was McCann's straightforward 4 3 3 either.
To start with, it looked like he'd set it up so a front 3 (Wilks, Smith, KLP) had freedom to rotate as they wanted. But then as you righty say KLP seemed to be playing 10 yards deeper and more centrally, sort of behind a front 2 at times.
Maybe McCann has listened to those saying that formations don't matter (I disagree). It just seemed a mess to me, and I don't think the players themselves looked comfortable with it.
What I've been thinking more about is what the hell McCann and Byrne say to the players when they watch back the videos of their set piece defending?! The way they are defending is obviously following their instructions and 'coaching'. Do they say things like "you didn't slam him to the floor early enough", "you need a bit more hip twist when throwing him down"?