12 Mar 2026 19:14:09
I've seen plenty on here moan recently about our play being boring, slow, not creating chances etc. I think when you look around most of the so called big teams in each league, they all play very very similarly.
For reference, I wholly agree with what folk say about our play being too slow at times, too many sideways passes and wingers and forwards "coached" to keep the ball and try to pull players out of position with sideways and backwards passes.
I'd rather we were much more direct at times and moved the ball much quicker, let our wingers actually take men on, hit the line and cross a bit.
Our team are very young and thus play could easily be adapted to do this, but I fear that this horseshoe football is what coaches are taught to play now, and as such players are all taught from a young age to do it too.
When you see Chermiti running from the touch line and scoring, see Antman on debut bursting to touchline and we score from a cross he puts in, ASO and Chermiti the other week, again from a cross up the top of pitch when he's been able to go forwards instead of sideways.
Do we think this would be more successful for us as a club personally or do we play the correct way for the league we play in and we just don't have players who can do it?
Attacking-wise, we saw us overload the box with plenty of direct play & crosses from overlapping fullbacks & wingers in the games against Killie, Hearts and 45 min v "them" in the league game, and scored 11 goals. So we are capable of doing it. I think it's a mentality issue.
12 Mar 2026 22:52:49
I wouldn't say plenty.
But for me, I just want to win. I don't care if it's ugly or not. Pretty football is overrated, and usually doesn't go together with winning trophies as much as a team capable of grinding out results when needed.
13 Mar 2026 08:49:25
We need players who find space and are willing to run into it. How many times have we seen our defenders with the ball, looking to make a pass, and there are no options? For me, a player should never be in the position that he has to stand with his foot on the ball waiting for another teammate to make a move.
13 Mar 2026 10:08:38
Geesa, I agree, and that is why some of the side to side happens. Rohl isn't the first manager to say players need to make the difficult pass rather than the safe one. Sometimes they can't, because we have players hovering with a defender on their back rather than finding that space, as you say.
Or, as Souttar and Manny have to at times, move forward into space with the ball to create that space for the pass, whilst attracting fw like locusts.