Luton v Grimsby thread

17-3 to Luton in shots, thought we had a shout for a pen at the end (not seen on TV)

We played some good football in the 2 nd half,

A fair result but we will never score many goals without Hearn, Hannah , Cook and Neilson in the side,

Things will get better , I am sure.

Quoted from Meza

433 can work its just our wingers are playing as if its 442.  The wingers need to attack diagonally and balls played into them.  Midfield need to support more.  Anyway good 2nd performance Pearson immense and if he carrys on like he'll be gone.

I am pleased somebody else has said this. I've been banging on about it for ever it seems. You can't play 4-3-3 with wingers stuck out on the touchline. When the ball is played up to J-L at least one winger has to come inside and join in. Like you say, attack diagonally.

Quoted from RoboCod

In the wider picture, possibly. But this is the Luton thread and they are fancied by most. It's bizarre to see Town with Hannah and Cook on the bench and Hearn not involved though, that's where the goals are.

Absolutely, utterly, TOTALLY OBVIOUS to ALL except those who pick the team ......  

I thought the team looked more together, and with more fight.
LJL good again, Goodall composed, bit better from Kerr, Colbeck and Rodman not in the game enough.  Neilson looked good when he came on.
Truthfully, who wouldn't have taken a point before the game?
I did bet on the win though at 12/5  

Point at places like Luton are always good but this system is not working in terms of an attacking ploy. When sides I played for had this formation we only played one wide player with two down the middle and I cannot understand why with the players we have we are not trying this approach. You can adopt one up front if you have a Lampard or Gerrard getting forward to support the lone striker but Dis and Kerr do not have the legs or the goal scoring record to support our current approach,

Whatever the fans say our best forward pairing in the Conference era has been Hearn and the much mligned Eldind who despite his countless misses scored 14 goals with Hearn getting 27. Who can see lJL getting ten this yer up front on his own. Put him with Hearn or Hannah or go back to Cook and Hannah which worked well for three months

Come on Paul get this system sorted and get us a quality mobile midfield player to change our fortunes positively.

I think yesterday's game is a good example of where that system can serve you if you're looking to keep it tight and perhaps try to nick a goal on the break in a difficult away game, but it's lunacy to just keep playing that way in every game. It's patently not working and it ought to be obvious to any coach worth his salt, especially when he looks at his bench and sees the talent that the system is excluding. We need much more flexibility and dynamism, especially at home, because it makes no sense to think that the set up for Luton away would also be exactly the same for Braintree at home ( for example). We have to do much, much better as an attacking force and we have to use our criminally underemployed assets.

Quoted from chaos33

I think yesterday's game is a good example of where that system can serve you if you're looking to keep it tight and perhaps try to nick a goal on the break in a difficult away game, but it's lunacy to just keep playing that way in every game. It's patently not working and it ought to be obvious to any coach worth his salt, especially when he looks at his bench and sees the talent that the system is excluding. We need much more flexibility and dynamism, especially at home, because it makes no sense to think that the set up for Luton away would also be exactly the same for Braintree at home ( for example). We have to do much, much better as an attacking force and we have to use our criminally underemployed assets.

Hannah and Hearn have to start imo.

The wingers and full backs need license to push forward in certain home games too.

Cut the long ball out get width and balls around the 18 yard box and we would get joy with these two uptop at home.

Also would conserve energy and tire the other team out. Let them chase shadows.

You need to score goals to win games and you won't score many when you play one striker (regardless of what 4-3-3 implies) who has a poor goal scoring record (18 goals in 74 starts + 29 subs).

There's nothing wrong with 4-3-3 but we play 4-5-1 don't we?