yankcitizen76
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Ouch. Hate to say it but he has a point.
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Neville's assessment of where city are failing
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Chippy_boy
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Re: Re: Neville's assessment of where city are failing
He analyses games well for sure, but to be a manager don't you have to be able to actually work with people? He could find that tricky.
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ColinBellsjockstrap said:You can call Gary Neville all the names under the sun, I certainly have over the years, but he has been there and done it ON THE PITCH, both for the Rags and England for nearly twenty years.
His experience is almost unparalleled, plus he has worked under the most successful manager ever (in terms of trophies).
Tactically, he is very astute, in fact I think he could go on to be a very successful manager (if he wanted to)
He analyses games well for sure, but to be a manager don't you have to be able to actually work with people? He could find that tricky.
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SkyBlueFlux
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He's right, of course, we do lack effective wide men. However, with what we have available and the set up of the team I don't think we'd get a lot of joy with added width. It would just play into the opponents hands if we started mindlessly pumping bread and butter crosses into the box. We've not got the team to make that a viable option, in my honest opinion.
I think we need to go down a different route, personally, though people might think I'm a bit crazy. Rather than commiting our fullbacks to the attack, I think we need to ditch it, keep them behind and start commiting our centre backs instead.
Sounds a bit stupid at first but how many times has Kompany come forward with the ball and looked like a threat, marauding towards the opponent. It adds an element of chaos to proceedings to throw an extra man into the meleé who has a good field of vision and can attack any presentable gaps.
It could even be workable to have an alternating system. So occasionally full-backs go up, occasionally one full back and one centre back, occasionally both centre backs. We have good ball playing defenders who are more than capable of attacking. At the moment our biggest problem is that we're too predictable and this would be one way of solving that.
Of course, it's a risk but I think that we're at the stage now where we need to take risks.
I think we need to go down a different route, personally, though people might think I'm a bit crazy. Rather than commiting our fullbacks to the attack, I think we need to ditch it, keep them behind and start commiting our centre backs instead.
Sounds a bit stupid at first but how many times has Kompany come forward with the ball and looked like a threat, marauding towards the opponent. It adds an element of chaos to proceedings to throw an extra man into the meleé who has a good field of vision and can attack any presentable gaps.
It could even be workable to have an alternating system. So occasionally full-backs go up, occasionally one full back and one centre back, occasionally both centre backs. We have good ball playing defenders who are more than capable of attacking. At the moment our biggest problem is that we're too predictable and this would be one way of solving that.
Of course, it's a risk but I think that we're at the stage now where we need to take risks.
hilts
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Im no tactician like the genius that is neville(i do think he does a half decent job though) but can someone please explain how if we have been found out and all a team has to do is let our fullbacks run free while packing everyone else into the middle like the alamo does he explain the 100% home win record?
are we saying that visiting managers who know how to curtail city at their place suddenly develop alzheimers once they enter Beswick?
our away form is a mystery as teams are more likely to give us less space at the etihad than they do at home, the rags had a terrible away record last year but were almost as good as we have been at home.
if anybody has any ideas i would like to hear them but im stumped to be honest
are we saying that visiting managers who know how to curtail city at their place suddenly develop alzheimers once they enter Beswick?
our away form is a mystery as teams are more likely to give us less space at the etihad than they do at home, the rags had a terrible away record last year but were almost as good as we have been at home.
if anybody has any ideas i would like to hear them but im stumped to be honest
SuperSilva
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Hate to admit this but Neville's anlysis is pretty much spot on.
I hope someone at the club's backroom staff ala Platt and co, have seen this video, realize what they need to start doing and hopefully go and bring in wingers like Hazard and Gaitan this Summer.
Someone please send this video to Platt and Roberto just in case!
I hope someone at the club's backroom staff ala Platt and co, have seen this video, realize what they need to start doing and hopefully go and bring in wingers like Hazard and Gaitan this Summer.
Someone please send this video to Platt and Roberto just in case!
We all love Zabaleta, but let's be honest, he is not the answer to our right full back position. Maybe this is why we are being linked with Palace's Nathaniel Clyne today?
The role of Richards is fundamental to the team and our use of him at centre back seriously weakens us an attacking force. We need to get him back to full back next Saturday.
But our problems away from home go deeper than just that. Our lack of movement and pace is hurting us far more. We need a player who can start attacks from the back... Martinez anyone?
The role of Richards is fundamental to the team and our use of him at centre back seriously weakens us an attacking force. We need to get him back to full back next Saturday.
But our problems away from home go deeper than just that. Our lack of movement and pace is hurting us far more. We need a player who can start attacks from the back... Martinez anyone?
Soulboy said:We all love Zabaleta, but let's be honest, he is not the answer to our right full back position. Maybe this is why we are being linked with Palace's Nathaniel Clyne today?
Even though we have Micah, Clyne would be a great signing for us as he is uber talented (fast, skillful, can defend, and would count as homegrown and we need these with players like Barry and Johnson likely to be gone in the next couple of years) and we'd only have to pay a £2million or so compensation fee. But the rags want him badly as the Brazilian glass twins haven't convinced Slur.
superwatsonwatson
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Just watching Milan and Barcelona. Its Half-Time. Just wondering if Gary Neville was giving an assesment now, would he say Barcelona lack width?
SWP's back said:Yeah, what he said made a lot of sense, especially him saying that's how we raped Utd.
He does seem to be getting fairer in his comments and analysis, but every time I hear his voice I just want to throw the remote through the tv and knock that smug smirk off his rat face, gggrrrrrr.
the goats backside
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Sorry but he still needs a kick in the bollocks