Other than the odd game or two per season, the last time we genuinely created chances consistently was early days under Shota. This is why all our strikers have appeared to be dog tod since. Estupinan got most of his goals under Shota at the early end of that season - the issue was we couldn't defend and ended up worse off for it once we got on a bad run.
Rosenior was all about control - and splashing out that season on quality up top essentially made things work a lot of the time, but there were a lot of games that season where we created very little in front of goal. We were good defensively, but barely ever won comfortably.
Walter - who knows? On paper he could have got us creating chances but due to the mental summer window we've no idea how that could have played out and we essentially ****ed him over despite his more obvious flaws. Nobody was surprised that didn't work out.
Selles then comes in and for large patches we couldn't buy an effort on goal, but he did enough to have us stop leaking goals and had us limp to survival.
None of these managers have been 'good' for the strikers we've pissed through because we've been starving these players of what they need. Delap could create his own chances. Since him, we've needed to play positive football as a team in order to succeed and we just haven't done anywhere near enough of it.
Jakirovic - the jury is out. Positive signs in pre season but we've pretty much ****ed him over already in the same way we did Walter. It'll be interesting to see if we perform poorly (as we're largely expected to) whether people turn on him in the next few months.
Rosenior was all about control - and splashing out that season on quality up top essentially made things work a lot of the time, but there were a lot of games that season where we created very little in front of goal. We were good defensively, but barely ever won comfortably.
Walter - who knows? On paper he could have got us creating chances but due to the mental summer window we've no idea how that could have played out and we essentially ****ed him over despite his more obvious flaws. Nobody was surprised that didn't work out.
Selles then comes in and for large patches we couldn't buy an effort on goal, but he did enough to have us stop leaking goals and had us limp to survival.
None of these managers have been 'good' for the strikers we've pissed through because we've been starving these players of what they need. Delap could create his own chances. Since him, we've needed to play positive football as a team in order to succeed and we just haven't done anywhere near enough of it.
Jakirovic - the jury is out. Positive signs in pre season but we've pretty much ****ed him over already in the same way we did Walter. It'll be interesting to see if we perform poorly (as we're largely expected to) whether people turn on him in the next few months.
