I have no issues with playing out from the back and possession football, but we shoot ourselves in the foot playing players like Traore and Twine consistently out wide.
No more Mr Nice Guy, give them a kick up the xxxx now and then. He should stop sucking up to everyone.
Some of the football we have played 'at times' this season has been excellent ... my personal thought is, that there is nothing wrong with grinding out a 0-0, keep it tight, not necessarily expansive and I think thats LR learning curve. We have a work in progress Plan A... we just don't seem to have a Plan B to fall back on when things go pear shaped as it is currently.
This is exactly how I see it too. On the "everyone's an expert tactician" thing, I can never understand how people can be so certain that the solution is as simple as playing people in the right position. Why would anyone think that an answer as simple as that wouldn't have been thought of by the management? It's obviously a ridiculous premise, yet it's a really popular thing to say.
Mowbray said in his pre-match interview he couldn't understand why the Birmingham players kept playing the ball backwards. He told them to concentrate on playing it forward from now on. What does he know? Not a lot of good when your priority is keeping a clean sheet.
be careful - you're not on 606 message - you have to blame either Ingram or Allsopp for all the goals we let in - nothing at all to do with our back four
I understood Ingram was at fault for their second but I'm struggling to see it from a quick look at those highlights. I'll have another look later.
Ask him...he gets paid well to answer your question.....im just a bozo who pays my monthly ",membership"
Liam is on a bad run now but a lot of teams will have one over the course of a season. We have too many out injured and missing to take chances in a mid week cup game. You have to be pragmatic as a manager and the league is the priority. Liam can attract young good players and is proving that. The chairman is backing him but at present we are weak in the squad and need players back and replacements for those we have lost or will still lose. It’s a work in progress but the road is rocky with ups and downs. I don’t think this team or club is ready for promotion this year. We need to build a better team first. But give everyone credit they are trying very hard, players don’t make mistakes on purpose and neither does Rosie or Acun. I still think that they will make a success of this project but maybe it won’t be this year.
You made the statement, not the manager. Now you duck any question related to it. Sounds a well thought out and reasoned viewpoint.
Of course he’s not been got rid of from his last couple of jobs because he hasn’t achieved the expected results. He’s a dinosaur. I haven’t heard anyone at Blackburn lamenting his departure and I’m sure the same can be said of Sunderland.
Im asking what you want him to do so I can understand your opinion better. I thought he did the right thing last night considering the state of the squad.
Think the biggest criticism of Mowbray is that he's a nearly man. Got a good reputation for building a squad to the point it can challenge, but he can rarely get that extra 10% to get over the line. But then he's made a decent career doing that, almost constantly employed at decent championship clubs - which proves the difficulty in finding that extra 10% to get non parachute clubs promoted in the first place. That said, Sunderland fans are not at all happy he was sacked and replaced by Beale.
It would be good to know what our strategy actually is. Bar Philogene, our threat & real quality is built on loan players, now through a 3rd window, with likely quite a bit of money being spent on these loans, and it looks like continuing that way. (Delap, Morton, Connolly, Sharp, Twine, Carvahlo, arguably Vinagre at least intention wise). It doesn't seem like it's a WIP building of a team?
