I've only just emerged from a darkened room after Stanley's performance, but, regarding your earlier post
Football19, I think I may have been the guy sitting behind you, and was more than happy to hear your outbursts. If only we'd seen as much thought and passion on the field!
Aldershot on saturday played a young 6-4 centre back in a midfield holding role, despite it only being his second game,did a good job(no shots on target)
As for Beattie, their young CB had him in his pocket all day but some of his tactics would have been stopped by a different referee. I lost count the number of times he clobbered Beattie with a leading forearm. Paradoxically, had Stanley not had a 'celebrity' striker, we may well have got a few more free kicks. Not that we seem to know what to do with them when we get 'em.
as we haven't real width,and now we have got two experienced fullbacks,we could go a bit narrower and get around Beattie,what do others think??[/QUOTE]
Clearly, Football19, you know more about the tactics of the modern game than I but, for what it's worth, my view is that going narrower is exactly the opposite to what Stanley need to try. We haven't width because we don't make the pitch wide. Both teams were so narrow that Aldershot could have let half the pitch out as allotments.
I can only presume that the players are being told to crowd together like we all had to do in a primary school teams when couldn't kick the ball more than 10 yards.
With professional players I wonder whether that negative approach reveals a greater fear of the what the opposition can do to you if you give them space, rather than a belief in the damage you can do to them if you receive the ball in space.
Stanley have never won a game this season when they've conceded the first goal. The logic of that statistic is they should go all out and attack, not simply try to contain. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is one definition of madness.
My non-technical and rather simplistic thoughts are that, if Stanley are to make the most of Beattie's and others' abilities, they need to get behind defences quickly, and cut the ball back in where players can attack the ball whilst also moving in a direction that takes them closer to the opponent's goal.
Even if they lose and go down, I would rather see Stanley be much more attacking, much quicker, and much 'wider' (if that means using the wings) than have to watch another performance like Saturday's.
Is it light outside yet?