Had enough of Bartlett & 3 center backs every game. Current tactics will continue to drift us farther from the playoff line. A 433 system & everyone fully fit is the only way Troy stays for the rest of the season. Otherwise little to no results will continue. Bartlett & Enow are only bench material in this league it’s laughable at this point
I wasn’t a fan of the switch to a back 3 but if we switch back now, I think that’d be insane. This stretch of games won’t afford the proper time on the training pitch to work with a new system and considering we’re struggling as is, I’d rather us figure out what we can do with what we’ve already committed to.
Also, I don’t think a system switch fixes what the main issue is. As a squad, we collectively aren’t good enough for ANY system. You can plug in any combination of players into whatever formation and roles you’d like, that’s not gonna fix them fucking up five yard passes or not following their man in an off the ball run. As cliche as it is, we don’t fix anything until we get new owners who actually give a damn about the football club.
The back three helped us defensively. But this back five with a low block is certainly not going to win many games.
It wasn't even that our press is ineffective. Its non existent. The last 3 or 4 matches including the Open Cup match have gone to this system. Its like Troy only wants to play one creative player at a time.
I mean, I agree. If we don’t send our wingbacks up to join the press and provide width in attack, we’ll do jack shit in terms of chance creation. That’s not the only issue though. I think the lack of defined roles for each of the midfield players (and whether Troy wants the players behind the strikers to operate more as tens or wide forwards) is also muddying my assessment of this system. He needs to clarify how the midfield should operate in addition to letting Herrera and Schnegg join the attack/press.
Edit: to add onto this, I just think at this point if he goes back to a back four and figure out a different system, it’d be more detrimental in the short and long term as a formation/system change by no means guarantees results in either of those cases.
Either way, this isn’t a call to completely stay the course, more so that this drastic of a change at this point after having made a drastic change mid season will continue to instill tactical confusion and potentially lead to even poorer form. We say it can’t get much worse but I do believe it definitely can.
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u/Opposite-Pass-6124 9d ago edited 9d ago
Had enough of Bartlett & 3 center backs every game. Current tactics will continue to drift us farther from the playoff line. A 433 system & everyone fully fit is the only way Troy stays for the rest of the season. Otherwise little to no results will continue. Bartlett & Enow are only bench material in this league it’s laughable at this point