Bicester Yellow
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I do think Gorrin should of been closing the space down though. That’s kind of his job as a CDM. I understand he’s been injured for the best part of 9 months. Just think he should of been pressing the ball.The thing is, we were already on the back foot for 10-15mins before Gorrin came on because we were too deep, wasting time and generally trying to break up the game to not allow them any rhythm, but due to these tactics it stopped any rhythm of our own too which we had in the first half, that’s what was so frustrating. It was so obvious we set our stool out to either nick a 1-0 win or draw. Karl does it so many times e.g. over thinks things. Then when we’re 1-0 down he’s urging them forwards, but the mind set is now difficult to change, especially when you bring on an unfit defensive central midfielder what do you expect, we’re not suddenly going to be on the front foot pushing forward for an equaliser.
Poor management on both fronts e.g. tactics and squad assembly. Pisses me off because we never seem to learn.
We’ve got 3 or 4 players (may be more) at least you you know they’re one tackle from being out long term and wince when they go in for one. Yes, one or 2, but not half the team.
Also been saying it for two seasons. Yes Taylor is as good as it gets at this level, but he scored goals in bunches and then goes missing for 3 or 4 games. He’s not a 1 up top striker on his own. He was anonymous yesterday & at 1-0 down we had nothing to lose, 2 subs available and 2 young lads who could of come off the bench but we bring on a CB in the 90th minute. Robinson really does need to stop being so naive. He could of brought on O’Donkor with 10 to go, we had nothing to lose. That’s poor decision making on his part. Those type of games will decide if we have a successful season or not. We need to improve the squad and judge after 10-15 games. However I do feel we might be seeing KR make the same mistakes as he always has away from home.