Now before people say it's because of the 3 midfielders we lost; we were still playing some decent stuff at the start of the season. But ever since the Hamilton game in October the style of football seems to have resorted to hit and hopes up towards Flo. I don't get it. Are they being told to go more direct or doing it themselves because of the lack of confidence in themselves and their team mates? It seems to have went from last season playing some of the best football we have seen in years with a lot of the same players who are here this season, To the start of the season playing decent stuff even if there was a bit of a (understandable) drop off, all the way to just lumping it like the butcher days. It's so night and day it's frightening.
Results 1 to 13 of 13
-
23-01-2019 09:25 PM #1
Why has the style of football changed so much?
-
23-01-2019 09:26 PM #2
- Join Date
- Oct 2006
- Location
- Glasgow
- Posts
- 3,908
Because we have guys in the middle of the park who cannae move and cannae track a runner
Is there a slower footballer in the world than Mallan? Yep. We also have Whittaker
Jesus wept
-
23-01-2019 10:22 PM #3
- Join Date
- Jan 2008
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Posts
- 9,134
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Marvin has the ability (in my opinion) to drive up the pitch but appears to be one of those players who wants to take the easy option and play the square pass and let others take that responsibility, meaning the creative players have to drop deeper. I wonder if Kris Commons was referring to him (amongst others) when he said in an interview that at half time v Morton certain players admitted to not being 'comfortable on the ball'when he was asking them to play on the deck and not get rid of the ball so quickly.
-
23-01-2019 10:26 PM #4
- Join Date
- Jun 2012
- Posts
- 10,643
Confidence is shot probably because the players are scared to make a mistake due to the way Lennon might berate them in the press.
-
23-01-2019 10:40 PM #5
- Join Date
- Sep 2012
- Posts
- 7,144
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But something has changed and now we're a shadow of that team. The style of football is terrible.
-
23-01-2019 10:51 PM #6
When Bartley and Whittaker can make the first team when they couldn’t last season then it’s obvious we have got a lot worse.
The midfield is dreadful and and we appear to only have two strikers available. Why have we only two strikers? That is totally self inflicted.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
-
23-01-2019 11:00 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The number of times we've left ourselves woefully short of depth in certain areas is staggering.
Possibly understandable if money was very tight but that really isn't (or shouldn't be) the case with us this season.
-
23-01-2019 11:07 PM #8
- Join Date
- Sep 2018
- Posts
- 17,807
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
23-01-2019 11:17 PM #9
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Posts
- 17,106
Whittaker to McGregor to Hanlon to McGregor to Marciano to Hanlon to Mallan back to McGregor. Then launch it towards Flo who ducks under it. That must have happened about 37 times tonight.
When Bartley is in the team it’s difficult to play through midfield. Makes no effort to make himself available to the back four. We’re a man down in that sense. When he does get the ball he never looks forward. That’s him, and he is what he is, the issue is that we’re relying on him in the first place. For the vast majority of 2018 we were a better team without him.
I’ve kind of singled out Bartley there but our centre halves dither on the ball, take about 19 touches and just generally slow the game down and allow the opposition to get in to their shape.
-
24-01-2019 12:28 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
24-01-2019 02:23 AM #11
- Join Date
- Aug 2012
- Posts
- 7,790
We were also never playing as nice football as some make out. It improved a bit after promotion from the championship but we’ve never ‘looked’ as good as Stubbs era.
-
24-01-2019 02:31 AM #12
- Join Date
- Oct 2017
- Posts
- 2,115
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We were a bit of a gang in the Championship and there's a lot of revisionism from some Hibs fans who seem to remember it as a procession to the title, which it really wasn't. We won that league on account of being the best of a bad, bad bunch.
Though it was infuriating to watch us spend the game on the edge of the opponents' penalty box and often fail to fashion and/or finish enough chances, the football was undeniably more pleasing on the eye under Stubbs. This wasn't a criticism of Lennon when the results were going right (as they were up until November 2018), but now we've gone off a cliff, it becomes another thing that makes me sick of watching Hibs at the moment.
-
24-01-2019 02:45 AM #13
- Join Date
- Aug 2012
- Posts
- 7,790
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Log in to remove the advert |
Bookmarks