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Perryqhill said:
Watching us first half and the positioning of Winchester playing the right back/right sided centre half role it's no wonder we're all at sea. Even when we went back to something more orthodox like you say the gaps are too big and defending in an organsied system is something which isn't coming naturally for them, hence the nerves and being pulled around easily.

I get we want to play an expensive system and the idea may be to press higher up the pitch, but we're a bit allover the place at the moment and people have been suggesting the individual errors that result arent/weren't anything to do with Johnson.

Contrast that to MOTD last night and what Danny Murphy was saying and pinpointing about what Hodgson likes and how he wants to be set up in central areas without the ball (similar to Allardyce) and it couldn't be more different. Clear as day why Watford got their first clean sheet in something like 30 games and clear why we've been conceding easy goals for too long.
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Equally as baffling is the fact that the players do not take action to remedy it while they can, there is nothing stopping someone taking the initiative and pointing out tpo the lads what needs to be done and getting them rattled. We lack on field leadership massively, these lads are pros who train all week on what to do, when it goes wrong they need to take responsibility, what happened to this "leadership team" bull?.

The line up yesterday was a kop out, there was a necessity to change it after a pasting the week before, but it never happened. Will Keane change this alone? Not by yelling he won't, we miss Wright and O'Nien more than a few would acknowledge, and giving away a centre half was typically bizarre decision making.

Our squad is decent imo, but we do not utilise it.
 
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Father Jack Hackett said:
Spot-on mate. There's too big a gulf between last midfielder and central defenders and they are generally more than 10 yards apart so its not hard to plan against. If you've got willing runners from midfield (who also aren't tracked and continually run off the shoulder of ours) then they can waltz into the box at their leisure.
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Absolutely. A runner or two from the opposition and we're often like for like numbers wise, we have a really soft centre and are too easily out competed in there.
 
Jasper said:
Whatever happens, this is one of the biggest remits of Speakman’s job role and at the minute he’s not performing as he should be. Much like Johnson wasn’t.
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Tin hat on but I’d rather they brought McCann in quickly with a chance to win at Donny than take days to get a celebrity manager who may yet turn us down
 
Keane situation aside Speakman is obviously a Dwarf & Salmon Pants influenced appointment as he is cut from the same cloth, as is Johnson. Corporate speak bollocks does not win you football matches particularly in this shitshow of a League. Get Keane in, give him autonamy over football matters with the 1st team and let him get on with it. The profile & buzz around the Club this week is how it should be ALL the time. He will light the touchpaper. FFS just get it done man. The current model isn't working.
 
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