Why Dougie got it spot on yesterday tactically...

It Was working. You cant say Its freedmans fault that we missed 3 chances at least, in the last ten mins. They were better goals sccring chances than brum created too. It just wasn't to be.

If freedman had a plan to get ten penalties per game in order to win, and we managed to get ten penalties awarded, But then we missed them all and the other team went up the other end a scrapped a goal in in injury time you couldn't say freedman got it wrong. Freedmans idea worked but the players failed to execute it.

what in saying with the brum game is, whether it not its what you like to see, Dougie used a tactic a certain way, and the principle worked. To simplify...

plan..

don't close down the ball.
we will conserve energy.
we wont leave any gaps.
we wont have confusion at the back if we don't get carried away.
the opposition will most likely waste possession and we will get it 9 times out of ten.
when we get it we will give the ball to our fresh legged attacking sub and go and score before they even have chance to get back.

we stayed organised.
we forced them to lose the ball.
we broke quickly.
we created perfect chances.
but missed.
and conceded a scrappy goal when we forgot to defend properly as we failed to get back into shape after the danns miss.

i know some don't like the tactic but its too easy to say if Dougie had stayed 442 we would have won, and we only drew because his tactic was an error.

If anyone has any doubts at all about DF then they should have listened to the people in the game who really know their stuff, to late now but I can see more of the same next season.

terenceanne wrote:

bwfc1874 wrote:The part about Palace is complete nonsense.

They are playing in the exact fashion Dougie try's to get us playing, tight at the back and quick on the counter. Difference is they have some pace on the break to hurt teams - Bolasie, Ince and some decent midfielders to keep the ball and hassle the opposition - Jedinak, Dikagchoi. 3 of the 4 I've mentioned were signed by Dougie. His plan and tactics are pretty obvious. But he hasn't got the players to do it, or a plan b by the looks of things.

Only a numbskull would continue to play tactics with the wrong players then   

This is my criticism of Dougie - square peg/round hole. In mitigation, if the plan was always to sell off the high earners and replace them (I think it was) then it makes sense to get the whole club playing that way so that when squad members are needed to step up, they will know what their job is. To some extent he has sacrificed short term success for the longer term vision.
He does come across as dougmatic.
 

Triumph wrote:If anyone has any doubts at all about DF then they should have listened to the people in the game who really know their stuff, to late now but I can see more of the same next season.

Megson?