No Argyle game yesterday afternoon, so time to reflect and consider.
One thing generally agreed in these boards is we are pretty poor defensively, or a lot of the time we have been. So had a quick look back through this season to see what's happened in the centre of our defence.
Not a very straightforward picture, due to CBs being substituted and occasionally a 3 CB system operating, but, I think this summary indicates the early season chopping and changing to find a decent pairing. Some changes forced by injury of course.
This is League 1 games only. DA started in August with Edwards and Wootton (pairing 1). That changed for game 3 when Canavan and Wootton (2) started. In game 5 home to Posh both were replaced as we shipped 5 and Songo'o and Sawyer (3) finished game there. Next Edwards and Sawyer (4) one game before Edwards and Canavan (5) started together. These two have ended as the most utilised partnership but only played 2 games before Edwards and Wootton played once and then a run of 5 matches with Edwards and Grant (6) together.
That partnership ended and Songo'o and Canavan (7) played 6 games together ending after defeat at Shrewsbury but including the 5 goal defeat at Luton. Another outing for Edwards and Canavan followed by 2 more for Songo'o/Sawyer one for Edwards and Songo'o (8) on Boxing day.
A consistent run from Edwards and Canavan until Good Friday when Edwards and Jones became pairing nine. So apart from a wasted hour of my time we can see that the pair the manager presumably thought was his strongest in August have hardly played together. We can see the upturn post Christmas in form coincided with the same pair of CBs but so has the recent slump. We can also see Adams has made numerous attempts to find the solution. The only other conclusion I can reach is that we failed in our attempts to replace Bradley and additionally there have been a number of changes in both full back positions too leaving us with a porous defence and in our current predicament.
Happy Easter.
One thing generally agreed in these boards is we are pretty poor defensively, or a lot of the time we have been. So had a quick look back through this season to see what's happened in the centre of our defence.
Not a very straightforward picture, due to CBs being substituted and occasionally a 3 CB system operating, but, I think this summary indicates the early season chopping and changing to find a decent pairing. Some changes forced by injury of course.
This is League 1 games only. DA started in August with Edwards and Wootton (pairing 1). That changed for game 3 when Canavan and Wootton (2) started. In game 5 home to Posh both were replaced as we shipped 5 and Songo'o and Sawyer (3) finished game there. Next Edwards and Sawyer (4) one game before Edwards and Canavan (5) started together. These two have ended as the most utilised partnership but only played 2 games before Edwards and Wootton played once and then a run of 5 matches with Edwards and Grant (6) together.
That partnership ended and Songo'o and Canavan (7) played 6 games together ending after defeat at Shrewsbury but including the 5 goal defeat at Luton. Another outing for Edwards and Canavan followed by 2 more for Songo'o/Sawyer one for Edwards and Songo'o (8) on Boxing day.
A consistent run from Edwards and Canavan until Good Friday when Edwards and Jones became pairing nine. So apart from a wasted hour of my time we can see that the pair the manager presumably thought was his strongest in August have hardly played together. We can see the upturn post Christmas in form coincided with the same pair of CBs but so has the recent slump. We can also see Adams has made numerous attempts to find the solution. The only other conclusion I can reach is that we failed in our attempts to replace Bradley and additionally there have been a number of changes in both full back positions too leaving us with a porous defence and in our current predicament.
Happy Easter.