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I’m not sure I know what his preferred style is. I did mention in my post regarding the early season games where the team had a good balance of possession but, compared to JBA style, we were more willing to shoot from around the box or whip in crosses. I thought that was going to be his style but he has moved away from that to Playing more long balls out of defense. As stated, I am not sure what is preferred style is but if you want to summarize my post, I’d say I want him to go back to the style we were playing earlier in the season.

Last season our defence, as such, wasn’t really tested because we won the ball much higher up the park and maintained possession for long periods when we did win it back. That was our defence, keeping the ball. I thought at the beginning of the season we had a good balance of taking more risks in the attacking third but still maintaining a high percentage of possession. We have regressed from that to way too many long balls and last night, that, combined with deciding to sit back, cost us the points. We ended up with 43% possession and I’m pretty sure if you’d looked at that figure around 60/70 mins it would have been closer to 60%. General play has been better over the last few games but I think we need to get back to being “brave” and playing to control games. Reduce the number of long balls. Now and again is fine but we do it too often now Press higher up the pitch, as a team, to win the ball back in better positions. Be patient and keep possession of the ball Work rate and intensity needs to go up a notch or two on and off the ball. edit: maybe getting Oscar back in there with Faddy will help address some of our issues but a lot of it needs to be driven by AJ

Said for me. He done enough while on the field to still be our man of the match. Thought Longelo and SPH put in a power of work and were dead on their feet by the end of the game.

We got lucky

We have faded out of the game. FFS Motherwell get a grip and score another goal.

Not sure he meant to nutmeg the keeper.

Finally JT fkn scores

We really need to pick up 6 points from the next two games.

Even game. Maybe we’ll see some shots from outside the box this half.

I started watching just before hearts scored. We haven’t looked too bad, plus seeing the HT highlights, we’ve suffered from our usual defensive lapse plus powder puff up front.

Nah! I think he’s got to Christmas at least

I think Sparrow is a good squad player for us and we can get a good return from him coming off the bench to add energy to the team as we tire.

Theo scores for Bolton against Middlesbrough

Didnt Connelly give the ball away to Aberdeen in the cup game? I have that in my head but can’t recall clearly enough to enable me to respond in a smart ass manner. 😂

Not sure if McGinn will help when he gets back or if he will be a season too far. I feel for SOD, There’s no reason we should be playing him at centre back. We need to start pairing 2 of the 3 centre backs we have available at the moment. . At right back we either play SOD or Johnny. As Soon as Oscar is ready we put him in beside Fadinger. I also think Thor deserves a chance to see if he can do anything up front. Longelo and JT booth need a good kick up the arse. our work rate on and off the ball needs to increase significantly. At the end of games last season, players looked like they had put all of their energy into the game, not so much this season. then of course, we have to cut out the stupid errors right now. While we have been struggling we would be in a better position had we not made so many individual errors which have all cost us points.