or am i reading it all wrong http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/...boss_talks_about__unbelievable__Ipswich_loss/ "All statistics today were in our favour except for one - the goals" No **** Sherlock "Although it was 0-3 at full-time, things aren't as bad as these numbers look I’m sure about that." Really that OK then try telling that to the place in the league and goal difference. “In previous matches we lost 3-0 and it was difficult to take positives but I think today, the only statistic we really lost was the score.” Surely that is the only thing that matters?
Unbelievable. We got a hiding, simple as that. I didn't see anything wrong with their goals, and all their goalies' saves were at 0-3 when the game was lost.
That's pure, weapons grade bollocks. Mick McCarthy from his post match interview said something along the lines of: "Watched a couple of their matches and how they were set up, and we came with a plan to frustrate them and it seemed to work." Despite the statistics, or god knows what else, he got his tactics completely wrong and that cost us. Any capable manager would have changed things around pretty sharpish.
I'm not sure about the whole Solly foul. He was never going to be able to challenge for it due to his positioning. That's why I think he didn't bother appealing. Nobody did in fact? Fraeye is an idiot. But we knew that when he was appointed.
Saturday's game was Men against Boys. McCarthy rumbled our tactics and poked at our weak spots - the lad up against Morgan Fox in the first half tore him a new arse hole. I used the phrase 'dead cat bounce' about Carol's recent two wins, but Saturday saw a return to the form of the previous games. In my opinion the key to our survival is to get a proper manager in before the back to back home games v Leeds and Bolton, where we must get 6 points.
Am I missing something easy here? Under Luzón, the players complained that we were wedded to the 4-4-2 formation, which made it easy for the opposition to play against us. Finally, it was so easy that we could'nt win, and Luzón lost his job. Enter the manager from the lost leagues of Belgium. After a couple of losses while he grappled with the excellent squad he has helped to set up, he hit on the pyramid in midfield, and we geve the Wendies a hiding. It also worked up at St. Andrews. Lo and behold, we are now wedded to a new formation, and the first manager who had time to scout us was able to deliver a real hiding at home. Do we have to change managers everytime we get found out? I honestly thought the reason we had a manager on the touchline was to observe the game and make changes when they were needed (like maybe changing Mak when he was having a mare?) otherwise he could hand over the team line up and sod off down the pub. It's not rocket science. Our managers are bargain basement managers, and if we got one that was a one-trick-pony, it was a result. This guy was never the solution to anything, and it speaks volumes about KM that she's wittering on with the trust about Target 20,000 while Rome burns. The fans are voting with their feet - free tickets would'nt induce some of the faithfull back. They need a decent team with a decent, intelligent, experienced manager to lead them.
Brentford have just appointed Walsall manager Dean Smith as their new boss. A bold and imaginative appointment, the type the Belgian arses would neve make.
Now that was one I wanted. Sadly, they will have to pay wages for a manager like that, plus compensation to Walsall. Like our mob would do that.
Also, he is a manager who will want to manage, something Roland won't allow. After all he and his CEO are doing fine.
No decent manager would want the job under the current system of having no say in erm...anything ...and just being a puppet
We are all worrying about nothing. 21st place in the league will be comfortably secured. Duchatelet is currently scanning his plentiful stocks of playing talent at Alcorcon and Ujpest, ready for a mass shipment in January.
Arn't we still playing half of their squads wages in the likes of Marko Dmitrović, Piotr Parzyszek, George Țucudean and Loïc Nego? 2% say that, that is the £6.5million Gomez money well spent.
You have only got to see how far we have fallen by looking at many one to one match ups v Ipswich. A similar sized club with a similar history, both have wealthy owners unwilling to invest in the team. Ipswich sold Mings last summer for 9m to cover their running costs, we gave away Gomez for a third of that, Ipswich had Murphy up front, tried and tested at the level, we had Mak the Albino FFS. Ipswich had Mick McCarthy in the dug out, been there, done it, bought the T shirt. Knows the game at this level inside out and can set up a team (promoted with Sunderland and Wolves). We had an abomination in the dug out who would struggle managing Orient Ladies Under 13 side. FFS