Tisdale’s Lost the Plot: Part 4, the recovery.

The frustration, annoyance and disappointment I am currently feeling is obvious however I would not be so angry if I did not honestly believe we are better than this and that Tisdale himself is better. Bournmouth have their own problems and have been suffering not only from playoff hangover but also from an exodus which began at the beggining of last season and has been continuing ever since. I mean we all saw the argument with Mitchell, who although was a little bit nieve seems to me to be somewhat in the right. I have been getting a little wound up seeing so many fans even bloody LEEDS complaining about lack of investment in the team which actually means someone either spending money the club do not have or ploughing their own money in for no return in football. Investment really is not the right word, anyway side tracked. Bournmouth won 3-1 on Saturday against the only side worse than us Leyton Orient. They will be coming with some confidence but it can easily be knocked we need to go for the jugular a bit play to our strenghts and have a little faith in the quality we do have.

I have argued throughout this little four part rant that we should play 4-3-3. This would be my line up.

Pidge

Tully  Coles Troy Golborne

Noble

Dunne Shepherd

Whichelow                                      McNish

Vine

In goal Pidge in obviously. He is a quality keeper at this level: Artur is only 21 another season learning is what he needs.

The back line tried and trusted with the exception of Coles in and Duffy sitting out. as I have said Coles suits us gives us extra presence and Duffy has simply been napping too much recently. Golborne can settle into the one role he can play well and start to rebuild a bit of confidence. Tully as standard at right back and Troy returning to  a proper centre-back role. He’ll do a job wherever Troy but playing him further forward unless we are completely on the back foot only causes problems.

Noble suits the holding role and really can pick out a pass when he wants to and isn’t being overly lax. The option to us McNish and the new boy outwide can give us the width and expansivness to play some flowwing football land create more than the two shots we manged against county (one was a Noble free kick). he can set Shepherd and Dunne off on their surging runs and link play with Shepherd to get our creative spark flowing. Dunne will do s Dunne does. Shepherd with adequate protection and the chance to link with all three players in front of him and not having Billy Jones at left back means he can bring the full back into play as well.

Up front I would go with Vine over Nichols because Vine while lacking in pace (at the moment) has real quality on the ball for a front man and played really well off the bench on Tuesday. It also gives Nichols the chance to come off the bench and attack a tiring defense and hopefully start rebuilding his confidence which was so clearly through the roof after Chesterfield. McNish deserves his chance and with Nardiello still suspended this is a perfect opportunity for him to show us what he can do. A naturally left sided player who seems to have all the attributes require to link the striker to the midfield and to deliver a high quality cross while Whichelow better be worth it. otherwise i would like to see Keohane give it a go out wide right as Vine is certainly too slow and Dunne is much too poor in possession and one dimensional although  I need to point out this is not actually an insult – far from it).

Lastly its is always good to remember Tisdale always gets it right in the end!

Up the City!