Dutchy the fax fan wrote:
Yes but do Batley play like that every week?
(Don't know as I don't watch them every week)
They did in the recent friendly but as for every week me neither.
We looked better against Fev because they looked to attack and in doing so gave us more room to do the same.
The point I was making was that the type and tempo of the game involves both sides and the ref.
Batley's game plan was to man up in defence by commiting bodies into the tackle and slow the play the ball down and wait for us to make a mistake John Kear said as much in the post match interview and largely the man in the middle let it happen, combine that with a short ten and you aren't going to get an open game.
Nil nil at half time says it all and it wasn't just down to Fax.
That's where we need to come up with something that will force the refs hand if we can, somewhere in the collision we need to try and avoid going to ground and get a quicker play the ball as a platform to get the attacking play we are after.
Throwing the ball out or around with no platform to do it from will have us keeping company with one another underneath our posts.
What is gone in previous seasons is gone KH said that this year we would try and play a more expansive game, we did against Cas, we did against Fev and had them rocking for a while but on Sunday we had little chance to do so but did have good field position only to put the ball down early in our attacking sets on a number of occasions.
It maybe a big ask to forget about last year and stick with it for a while longer but that's what I will do.
If some more choose to stop going I understand why but not me.
