[Revived Red]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

We were tactically inept, and were always playing as eleven individuals rather than a unit. The very basics of football were completely lost.

In attack we were awful. Surely the scouse lot have heard the song "Pass & Move". We couldn't pass water. John Mullin (who was nowhere near fit enough) never had any passing options as all our players stood like statues when he had the ball. We are so easy to defend against it's unreal.

The biggest problem I saw was how Stanley players never closed down the opposition. You cannot stand off an opposition side so successful when they are on the attack. Whenever we got the ball, two Gills players closed our man down and retrieved the ball. We must've kept posession for a combined total of thirty seconds. We made it so easy for Gillingham and in truth they should've done better.

It has been like this for far too long. Our players seem unaware of how to create space and move into that space - or allow others to move into the space created. The more I think about it (not pleasant thoughts!), the more I reflect that our flowing moves and incisive attacks ended when Rommy Boco was injured and eventually departed. Our ability to cross the ball effectively ended with the departure of Andy Todd.

The whole process of building an attack is slow and laboured. As Shakermaker says, and as others have said in the past, we are so easy to defend against. Can anyone imagine Stanley scoring a goal similar to that scored by Alex for Chelsea yesterday?