In my opinion GH got the tactics and team right on Saturday
This is absolute bollocks. I am a big fan of heathcote and think that he is the best thing for alty at the moment. However on saturday he started lawton wide right which he cant play (but i would praise him for trying.) started whalley and sedge together which is too attacking and not defensive at all. One of those two with Lawton in the middle is the right way to go about things with Val injured. Peyton on the left is a good call.Azza at left back. I could understand it when we didnt have a left back but now we do surely it would be better to start him. I honmselty think GH thinks he has to be loyal to azza because he has been such a great servant to the club, but he just isnt good enough at left back and he wont get a look in at right back. I would start O'neill and Senior up front and i think Little is another one that GH feels loyal to. I dont think we should get rid of little i just dont think that he should be the first name on the team sheet (which i'm pretty sure he would be). I would start Pottsy on the right. We are much better attacking than defending so why on earth dont we play to our strengths?
The argument about logan cramping up. Surely if this is a constant threat then we should start him and let him terrorise opponents from the off and see how far along he gets. This is surely better than bringing him on as a sub and having the possibility of him cramping up straight away and making us use another substitute to replace a sub.
Disagree about the 'we are a conference north club' thing as well. We are not. Our summer signings and the way the squad is now totally proves my point.
End of rant.
All about opinions but I think this is a load of bollocks also.
Firstly he played lawton pretty much coving sedge and walley in the first half to stop Oxford running through us. Perhaps you didnt notice we had no width in the first half?
Secondly I have already mentioned Clancy might not be fit and I agree aza is a waste of space but if Clancy is not fit then what does he do?
Thirdly if GH was trying to keep the middle tight how can he play logan out wide.
Senior up front from the start, the jury is out on this one. he is not strong enough to challenge fit defenders from the start, but later in the game he is fast enough to terrorise them.
Cramp, well did you see Logan having to be substituted and us wasting a sub?
Sorry but perhaps we are on seperate wavelengths but I still feel GH got it right and brought subs on early in Potts and Logan when the game got more stretched where they we able to have a real impact and lets face it if we had gone 2-1 up perhaps you might agree with me more.
It is all about opinions as we all keep saying but people need to think of tactics for 90 mins not just the starting 11.