Interview with Jackson Irvine

Another really educated useful comment from you......

 

Please don't derail the thread thank you.

 

Well he didn't just come from Russia, he'd been over here for at least a bit and had looked at games and maybe players. But he won't have had links in this country to pull strings to get players. The main thing though for me beyond what players are brought in is what you do with them, and there seem to be some question marks over training. The lack of a backroom staff probably hindered things a lot, it would have been a different setup to what he had in Russia.

 

I really hope that isn't true although looking at our defending under him maybe it actually is

 

Apparently, according to the players he only worked on offensive moves, and rarely on defensive.

 

I guess it'll be interesting to see how we go under Adkins, already a noticeable improvement yesterday.

 

And Steve Bruce here didn't work on attacking routines.

 

Kind of weird that we've bounced so sharply from being quite defensive and not scoring enough to being too offensive and conceding too many. Is this going to be the first window that I can remember where we haven't been desperate for a striker?

 

Personally I think we're desperate for two strikers. But yeah, and I found it odd how the very same players Steve Bruce drilled into such a good back 4 just could not work together at all once Micky P took control.