No one wants a change but it looks more and more that he doesn't have the answer to this slump. Willock and Dieng are a loss but there's no excuse for the abject performances we are seeing...
Agree with every word of that, as always, a great write-up. I wasn't at the game...I did pay a tenner to watch it on QPR+ because it was Peterborough...they were bottom of the league...an easy and convincing win. What an utter shambles. I was screaming for the ball to be played forward and for there to be some options up front, but there rarely were. We made them look like the team pushing for a playoff position, and we looked like the team in a relegation scrap. I'm not a fan of changing managers as much as we have of late, and I'd like to give Warburton a chance to turn the boat around...but work dictates that I live abroad so don't spend my Saturday afternoons going to watch the games anymore. I completely understand why fans who go week in and week out are crying for a change in the hope that the football on show improves.
I think Clive was being very generous to Sanderson with a 2/10. The fact that he started the game with such a w*nky swagger made the debacle that followed so much worse of course. I see a modicum of footballing skill coupled with the intelligence of a garden slug and I can see no reason why he should play for the club again even if we have to start with 10. And we probably have half a dozen better options that Hendrick. Baffling.
I'd love a young coach, with fresh ideas...but they don't grow on trees and they often get snapped up by bigger clubs as #2 for a more experienced manager. I am still keeping an eye out for Wycombe's results as I'm interested to see how Ainsworth develops as a manager.
Agree it does sometimes, Boro, Forest, Sheffield Utd to name a few, but then for Reading, Cardiff, West Brom, Preston, it hasn't...... Any names spring to mind as to who you'd like to see given a chance? Not a dig just interested in possible names as none spring to my mind.......
No, no idea. But as Bob says, a young coach with fresh ideas would be preferable to an older one stuck in the ways of the past.
He should’ve buried that header, no excuse for hitting the post, if he had played Austin from the start with Gray which he should’ve done then he would’ve scored
I'd hope the right young target would be the one setting the target ! Play offs minimum but the board would have to back him and trust him .
There are alot of good young managers out there, however acquiring one is a totally different matter and some would have to be bought out of contracts. It all depends on how much you have and how ambitious you are. I'll put forward the names, firstly foreign managers : Julien Stephan, done great at Rennes and Strasbourg Gerrardo Seoane, Young boys and Leverkusen Diego Martinez, Granada Roberto de Zerbi, Foggia and Shaktar Donetsk Ruben Amorim, Braga and Sporting Marcello Gallardo, River Plate. I'd actually wet myself if he ever became our manager ! Now to the young British managers all doing great jobs in League 1 or League 2 that look like they have bright futures. Mark Bonner, Cambridge Utd Leam Richardson, Wigan Athletic Liam Manning, MK Don's Rob Edwards, Forest Green. All these managers have done brilliant jobs at their clubs albeit at a lower level. So there are young managers out there but I don't think we really scout these types home or abroad. There are others aswell with less impressive cv's and I'd love to see us take a gamble on one of them and hopefully give them a blank sheet and back them but I'm not holding my breath
Impossible to answer that without knowing what squad we'll have. If he had the present squad, minus the loan players I'd say try to at least equal this year's finish, whilst playing attractive, progressive foorball.
It was a well contested header as I recall, more than 3 yards out, hit the inside of the post, a good effort unlucky not to go in.
Any of these managers, and I am sure that there are some gems amongst these names, would have to have almost instant success to be tolerated by fans who do not study the game, especially lower leagues and abroad, to the level you do. I’d love an unknown to come in and do a Graham Potter in Sweden, but I can’t see Les Ferdinand wanting to back up an unknown when things get ropey, or our fans giving them time. Whether any of them would want to come is an interesting question, There is no chance of the purse strings being loosened. Finished last year 9th on 68 points. We only need 10 more points from 8 games to do better than last season (though it doesn’t look like we will get any at the moment…..) which would mean that Warburton would probably stay - demonstrable progress. I’d be interested to learn more about how unified the approach and tactics are at all levels throughout the club. My understanding is that we are meant to play attractive, passing football in all our teams and only worry about the results when it gets to the first team. If we think this isn’t working we probably need to dump Les and Ramsey as well. I’m not advocating this (although Les’ role is still something of a mystery to me) but whoever we get in, if we do get anyone new, has to fit in with this set up.
I'm not a fan of Hendrick Tramore, he's ok, hasn't been fantastic but certainly not bad either. He is getting a lot of undeserved abuse from people who wanted another striker or a 10 which he isn't, and that we didnt bring one in certainly isn't Hendricks fault at all. I think he was brought in with his experience and the way he plays as back up and/or support for Johansen, reasonable as Stefan has not looked very fit, now is not fit, and because Dozzell apart from some decent 1st halves faded/ disappeared 2nd halves at best. Despite what Bob maintains, Dozzell was not in the game Saturday, I hardly saw him. Warburton said he needed to get someone on the ball in midfield 2nd half which clearly Dozzell was not doing, and to a fair extent Hendrick did that. He was a far better sub than either Austin or Thomas, who should have done a lot better with the clever back heel Hendrick set him up with on the edge of their box, which he sliced way wide and high. As for Jordi he was sent out on loan because he was injured so much. Sanderson looked good at Brum and has done ok for us until yesterday, and his sending off was a bit stupid, but then Chair did more or less the same at the end of a half recently without getting much grief.
