Bristol City v Derby County
Ashton Gate
Ashton Road
Bristol
BS3 2EJ
1945
12 Feb 2020
Mmmmmm......it can't last, can it? A new backbone seems to have been inserted into The Mighty Rams and with him the Rams have claimed 13 out of a possible 18 over six matches (we won't talk about Luton).
This will be a tricky tie - Bristol have lost only once against Derby in the last seven and can prove to be stubborn opponents. They have that there Naki Wells playing for them and he always seems to do good against us.
Huddz is still out but a recall may be on for Max Lowe who may replace Forsyth who by all accounts had a good game v Swansea. Anyway, nobody can predict what team Phil will put out.
Team news is usually now provided by the Anglian usurper from Salop but I may just get that first. Unless Ang does.
Dare to dream?
Bristol City 3 - 2 Derby County
posted on 13/2/20
Spart ... can I just confirm that the theory is that settled sides win more points?
posted on 13/2/20
No Peeder it's about managers taking the simple option of playing either their winning side or their best players rather than trying to pick specific players for specific games. Just showing that those sides which make the least changes are generally more successful. It's pretty obvious really but the likes of 2W and Vidal think football is a complex game rather than a simple game with easy to follow rules, strategies and tactics. In the final analysis football is not an intellectual game.
posted on 14/2/20
Spart I agree with you to a large extent. Players develop understandings if they play together regularly. Using a greater number of players is likely to be a surrogate marker for teams that have had a greater number of injuries, so that will be a factor in poorer results. There isn't a straight line correlation though there does seem to be a trend. Obviously the quality of players come into it aswell. In general most managers and fans like to keep a winning team unchanged but what if you lose? Does that mean a change is needed or will consistency of selection eventually improve the situation?
posted on 14/2/20
I can accept all of that, Vidal, it's a complex relationship.
If it was really as simplistic as Spart says, we might as well have RFB as our manager.
posted on 14/2/20
So, if I understand this correctly.....a settled team plays, winning regularly until they lose. At which point changes are made and the start a losing run. At some point they will eventually win.....and so on?
posted on 14/2/20
If you change a winning team what does that say about the player who is dropped? Forsyth is a player I have never rated highly but he played well against Stoke and apparently well against Swansea. So unless he is injured why drop him for Lowe? The two experienced strikers, Martin and Waghorn, played well against Stoke so why change that for Swansea? Managers have the luxury of being able to put right any errors of selection during a game, something that managers in the past when these clichés were first coined never had.
There is an idea that the manager is some sort of mastermind who uses his players to engineer a win but as soon as that whistle blows it is the players who find a way to win. The more they win the better they know how to do it in the next game. A managers main job is to pick the team and motivate the players.
Heb, you have worked out the art of football management. If you look at results they tend to follow that trend.
posted on 14/2/20
What happens if the team wins but one or more players have a stinker?
posted on 14/2/20
That is why we have managers Vidal. But when they don't and they are dropped it seems a bit tough. It's like being blamed for something you haven't done.
posted on 14/2/20
comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 43 minutes ago
If you change a winning team what does that say about the player who is dropped? Forsyth is a player I have never rated highly but he played well against Stoke and apparently well against Swansea. So unless he is injured why drop him for Lowe? The two experienced strikers, Martin and Waghorn, played well against Stoke so why change that for Swansea? Managers have the luxury of being able to put right any errors of selection during a game, something that managers in the past when these clichés were first coined never had.
There is an idea that the manager is some sort of mastermind who uses his players to engineer a win but as soon as that whistle blows it is the players who find a way to win. The more they win the better they know how to do it in the next game. A managers main job is to pick the team and motivate the players.
Heb, you have worked out the art of football management. If you look at results they tend to follow that trend.
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He also knows that the way to score is often by a great cross from near the by-line. Bird found that a bit late even after Bristol had demonstrated it. Bogle never got it at all. His recent goal scoring effort has caused him to cut in from the wing. Bogle has great skill but needs coaching in how to be even more effective, Get in better crosses, get crosses in early but not diagonal. Use his pace to get to the line and put in GOOD CROSS leaving the goalkeeper. Bristol showed how. We didn't learn until too late.
posted on 14/2/20
He, above being Fossie.