DC post match comments - Weymouth

horden · **Posted:** Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:58 pm

https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/latest-videos/

Docherty · **Joined:** Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:50 pm **Posts:** 124

Speaks very well and tells it how it is

horden · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:20 am

Yep, he's a genuine good bloke , not too big on the jargon, which is a plus.

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5532

Zero sympathy from the manager for Luke Molyneux for the sending off. Says he should have been braver and gone for the ball with his head. Proper centre back's mindset, but Gime Toure didn't thrive under Dave Challinor and it looks increasingly like Molyneux isn't going to either.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12367

He also pointed out that Johnson lost the ball whilst farting about ( my contribution) causing Odusina to be exposed in a one on one which produced a set piece from which they scored after their forward dived causing a yellow card for us which, on another day could have been red.
And yet DC insists on playing out from the back which exposes our ordinary defenders to losing the ball in our own third and puts us under unnecessary pressure. We are not good enough to adopt that tactic because not only does it invite a cock up but we then take an age to get it upfield due to our pedantic, laborious efforts at a very loose attempt at any sort of tempo.
We have absolutely no idea on how to move it quick enough and end up giving it away thus starving our strikers of any sort of service.
We do this time and time again and DC doesn't seem to recognise it at best and at worst doesn't try and alter this pedestrian approach.

Double Figures · **Joined:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:47 am **Posts:** 845

I felt the midfield was the problem more than anything else. Featherstone is holding, fine, but Shelton and Holohan lost the ball regularly and were pedestrian.

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5532

derwent wrote:

He also pointed out that Johnson lost the ball whilst farting about ( my contribution) causing Odusina to be exposed in a one on one which produced a set piece from which they scored after their forward dived causing a yellow card for us which, on another day could have been red.
And yet DC insists on playing out from the back which exposes our ordinary defenders to losing the ball in our own third and puts us under unnecessary pressure. We are not good enough to adopt that tactic because not only does it invite a cock up but we then take an age to get it upfield due to our pedantic, laborious efforts at a very loose attempt at any sort of tempo.
We have absolutely no idea on how to move it quick enough and end up giving it away thus starving our strikers of any sort of service.
We do this time and time again and DC doesn't seem to recognise it at best and at worst doesn't try and alter this pedestrian approach.

Pools score 11 in the previous 4 games, all wins, so maybe we shouldn't go overboard just yet? It does seem like a lot hinges on Pools scoring an early goal, which never looked likely yesterday. I'm surprised Challinor reckons that Odusina was blameless for the free kick and goal - not how I saw it, but we'll soon know when the 'highlights' get posted. Pity there wasn't a chance to see if Pools would have fared better with the 3 attacking substitutions on the pitch. I think the manager might well chance his arm again with a 4-4-2 when we play Sutton next Saturday - if that goes ahead.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4451

Flying Hogans wrote:

derwent wrote:

He also pointed out that Johnson lost the ball whilst farting about ( my contribution) causing Odusina to be exposed in a one on one which produced a set piece from which they scored after their forward dived causing a yellow card for us which, on another day could have been red.
And yet DC insists on playing out from the back which exposes our ordinary defenders to losing the ball in our own third and puts us under unnecessary pressure. We are not good enough to adopt that tactic because not only does it invite a cock up but we then take an age to get it upfield due to our pedantic, laborious efforts at a very loose attempt at any sort of tempo.
We have absolutely no idea on how to move it quick enough and end up giving it away thus starving our strikers of any sort of service.
We do this time and time again and DC doesn't seem to recognise it at best and at worst doesn't try and alter this pedestrian approach.

Pools score 11 in the previous 4 games, all wins, so maybe we shouldn't go overboard just yet? It does seem like a lot hinges on Pools scoring an early goal, which never looked likely yesterday. I'm surprised Challinor reckons that Odusina was blameless for the free kick and goal - not how I saw it, but we'll soon know when the 'highlights' get posted. Pity there wasn't a chance to see if Pools would have fared better with the 3 attacking substitutions on the pitch. I think the manager might well chance his arm again with a 4-4-2 when we play Sutton next Saturday - if that goes ahead.

Away from home we have scored 1 in the last 5 matches, we do appear to have gone very negative away from home and something isn’t working.

horden · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:48 pm

Flying Hogans wrote:

derwent wrote:

He also pointed out that Johnson lost the ball whilst farting about ( my contribution) causing Odusina to be exposed in a one on one which produced a set piece from which they scored after their forward dived causing a yellow card for us which, on another day could have been red.
And yet DC insists on playing out from the back which exposes our ordinary defenders to losing the ball in our own third and puts us under unnecessary pressure. We are not good enough to adopt that tactic because not only does it invite a cock up but we then take an age to get it upfield due to our pedantic, laborious efforts at a very loose attempt at any sort of tempo.
We have absolutely no idea on how to move it quick enough and end up giving it away thus starving our strikers of any sort of service.
We do this time and time again and DC doesn't seem to recognise it at best and at worst doesn't try and alter this pedestrian approach.

Pools score 11 in the previous 4 games, all wins, so maybe we shouldn't go overboard just yet? It does seem like a lot hinges on Pools scoring an early goal, which never looked likely yesterday. I'm surprised Challinor reckons that Odusina was blameless for the free kick and goal - not how I saw it, but we'll soon know when the 'highlights' get posted. Pity there wasn't a chance to see if Pools would have fared better with the 3 attacking substitutions on the pitch. I think the manager might well chance his arm again with a 4-4-2 when we play Sutton next Saturday - if that goes ahead.

I didn't realise Sutton was Saturday, was led to believe it was on Tuesday, must be this long Covid

well Amen for that.

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