for me, the problem is the size of the job that Ollie has faced due to years of incompetence, provided with it's Top Hat by mental martin allen and his magical chequebook.
18 players have had to go in and out in January to try and rectify the situation. which hardly means that Ollie should
a, have built a team already that plays exactly as he wants
or
b, have fixed all of the 100 problems that the team and club had when he arrived.
The performances have been mixed with the theme being that we haven't played fluent football with confidence for any great length of time. We aren't shipping goals by any means as we rarely if ever concede more than 1. So it's not incompitence of tactics we are faced with. The problems are in having the confidence, performance and composure to dominate games for 60-70 mins. This can't be fixed in under half a season, even if you are a magician and whilst it is fine to be critical of individual poor performances and lack of consistency, we can't accuse Ollie of not trying to do things the right way, and not trying get in the right players to play a good brand of football. he's been trying EVERYTHING. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and even the weirdo's on Time Team have had to dig away less layers of sh*te to get to what they are after.
my team for Watford would be:
Alnwick
Stearman McAuley Kisnorbo Clapham
Bori Oakley Clemence Mattock
Howard Campbell
Subs: Hayles, Fryatt, Lazcko, Hume, Hendo
Try and dominate the centre of midfield, Play mattock in front of Clapham, give him a bit less defensive responsibility as he has a good left peg and good touch higher up the pitch. Stearman and Oakley can also give Bori a bit of support to get the best out of his passing and positional sens. Playing into channels is fine, but crossfield lumps to Howard is not going to allow us to dominate possession or midfield runners or campbell into the game regularly.
