Tactics.

I'll start. If he is over his injury I would bring Connor Wood back into left midfield. I don't think he is as talented as some of our other midfielders but is more naturally suited to the wide left role. I'll wait for the flack but I actually think Wood and Chicksen work quite well together down that side. Ball and Caddis can do the same on the right. Both the midfielders need to stick out wide to enable our full backs the option of the ball down the line (assuming O'Donnell actually gives them it quickly enough)

 

Nothing will be solved this season now. League 2, new players.... And mean the whole first team that we have are shown the door and a fresh!

And there's good chance of a new manager.
Summer can't come quick enough.

 

Eh? What’s a ‘tactic’?

 

I can't tell you how to solve it, or counteract it - but I would at least like to see them TRY something different rather than lumping it to no avail for 90 minutes.

 

Here's my stab in the dark.

If we haven't got any wingers (we haven't), and our pressing game has been found out (it has) and our midfield playmaker is being man marked (he is), then we've got to create some width from our full backs. Caddis can get up and down, as well as being able to put a cross in. Wood/Woods can do the same on the left. I would say it's better if they have someone to aim at up front, but we've only really got one striker who can supposedly head a ball. Try Miller up there with Doyle to get on the end of knockdowns. Or possibly even Ball, who likes to go out wide, so he could work and overlap with the fullbacks.
OB, Payne and Butterfield playing as a central three (Payne allowed to roam) with Akpan playing defensive mid, and feeding fullbacks either side of him.

Can't even say we could put three at the back, with the fullbacks pushing up, because we don't have another "central" defender. What was that thing about a transfer window happening in January?

Doyle Miller/Ball
OB Payne Butterfield
Akpan
Wood NKP OConnor Caddis

Now I'm beginning to understand Hopkins problem. However - this could have been addressed last month.

 

Play 4-1-3-2 rather than 4-2-3-1 give the centre halfs of the oppostion 2 strikers to deal with rather than 1 as it's easy pickings. That would leave space for the midfield im as one of the opposition midfielders would need to drop further to help out leaving said space for us to exploit.

 

I can see that. Who would be your first choices for the 1 and the 3?

 

cudder shudder wudder.

 

A little minty thing?

 

When things start going to sh1t, time for a Polo!

 

All this dross are on long contracts, get used to watch it

 

My tactics to pray, and I’m not even religious.

 

My not be popular but it's come to the stage where performances mean nothing and results everything.

My starting 11 if fit

O'Donnell

Caddis
O'Connor A
NKP
Woods

Akpan

O'Brien
Payne
Butterfield

Doyle
Ball.

 

That's exactly the same as mine. Are you gonna ring Hoppy or shall I?

 

Tallinbantams reply to OP pretty much sums it up.Lack of wingers doesn't help but we are deficient in having a target man who can hold the ball up and be proficient at heading a ball.

Having wingers putting crosses in for diminutive strikers is just hit and hope.More likely a defender heading an own goal than one of our strikers scoring.

Tactics are devised to keep the other team guessing.If you limit what you can do due to deficiencies,then it's easier to work out what you can do and stop us like Fleetwood did.

 

my question to you is, why as David Hopkin never changed or adapted within games? Especially within games we should be at least getting a point from. His tactics have cost us a lot of points this season

 

lmao

 

Payne and Ball must be close to each other, on the same line, directly behind the striker.

Play a midfield of Wood - Butterfield - Mellor.

A back four of Chicksen NKP P O'connor Caddis

Alternate between Doyle and Miller up front.

Much more responsibility on Caddis (right) Chicksen (left) and Butterfield (centre) coming to get the ball. If they're well marked, Mellor and Wood must be in position ready to show, and if that fails, O'Donnell must look long and Payne and Ball should be forming a front three with Doyle, right there ready to pick a second ball or on the shoulder of the last man waiting for errors.

Ie, every single player must always have a role and be accountable.

If O'D has no options, players are failing the fundamentals.