It's very, very ugly but obviously effective - opponents need to be strong against a constant barrage of long balls.
They generally defended well, 2 huge centre half cloggers who only play no nonsense stuff - won't concede too many
Pressed very high from goal kicks, stopping us playing out how we usually would & defended a lot wider than most. Usually we always have an out ball to the wing-backs but they nullified this quite well.
They actually got stronger as the game went on, introduction of the subs helped & playing direct can be effective if using the channels - the first half was just constant long thump straight down the middle which we dealt with easily.
Very adept at the dark arts stuff too & sadly, very weak ref tonight who allowed it.
Wins against sides like that always taste extra sweet for me.