Derek, for the first time, your job is under pressure and it will remain so until you do something about the defence.
You have spent a lot of time and effort in rebuilding the squad and on the whole, until the last couple of games, we were a lot better than last year. HOWEVER, whilst we can score goals it simply means that we are now only losing 4-3, 5-3 and 3-2 instead of to nil.
You found a real diamond in the shape of Greg Cunningham but it must be becoming blindingly obvious to even the most hardheaded person that defensively we have a soft underbelly and anything to do with the previous regime (and I don't count those that have only played relatively few times) is simply not good enough. The ease with which Burnley just passed their way round and carved through us for their first 3 goals was pretty scary, like a hot knife through butter, like we weren't there.
If you continue to play the same defenders time and time again, you will be conforming to Einstein's definition of insanity which for those who don't know, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It is clear as day that drastic action is required, personally I would go as far as to not allow any of Fontaine, Carey, Nyatanga to play again. Holloway, James Wilson, Bryan or even the youngsters signed recently must come in with MacManus to lead them (and hopefully Greg will not be out too much longer) or Derek, IT WILL COST YOU YOUR JOB, AND SOON...!
As for tonight, we seem to have re-erected the glass wall 25 yards from goal. What is the point of having 2 wingers on the pitch if they don't cross the effing ball...! - we would go down the line, get into a position to cross and then come back, pass across the pitch to the other side and do the same thing there and more often than not, the move would fizzle out...
Get the ****ing ball in the box and whilst we are at it, have more than our 2 forwards attacking the ball - when one winger crosses, we should have a minimum of the forwards plus the winger from the other side plus at least 1 midfielder attacking the box but this never bloody happens...!!!
I still have faith that you will be a big success here in time but it was a big mistake with Davies tonight, you will soon discover that the public here don't tolerate taking the only bloke who looked like a real threat off, that cost you some fans tonight so act now and don't make it any worse...
Rant over, please act now or AG will be like a ghost town soon...
You have spent a lot of time and effort in rebuilding the squad and on the whole, until the last couple of games, we were a lot better than last year. HOWEVER, whilst we can score goals it simply means that we are now only losing 4-3, 5-3 and 3-2 instead of to nil.
You found a real diamond in the shape of Greg Cunningham but it must be becoming blindingly obvious to even the most hardheaded person that defensively we have a soft underbelly and anything to do with the previous regime (and I don't count those that have only played relatively few times) is simply not good enough. The ease with which Burnley just passed their way round and carved through us for their first 3 goals was pretty scary, like a hot knife through butter, like we weren't there.
If you continue to play the same defenders time and time again, you will be conforming to Einstein's definition of insanity which for those who don't know, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It is clear as day that drastic action is required, personally I would go as far as to not allow any of Fontaine, Carey, Nyatanga to play again. Holloway, James Wilson, Bryan or even the youngsters signed recently must come in with MacManus to lead them (and hopefully Greg will not be out too much longer) or Derek, IT WILL COST YOU YOUR JOB, AND SOON...!
As for tonight, we seem to have re-erected the glass wall 25 yards from goal. What is the point of having 2 wingers on the pitch if they don't cross the effing ball...! - we would go down the line, get into a position to cross and then come back, pass across the pitch to the other side and do the same thing there and more often than not, the move would fizzle out...
Get the ****ing ball in the box and whilst we are at it, have more than our 2 forwards attacking the ball - when one winger crosses, we should have a minimum of the forwards plus the winger from the other side plus at least 1 midfielder attacking the box but this never bloody happens...!!!
I still have faith that you will be a big success here in time but it was a big mistake with Davies tonight, you will soon discover that the public here don't tolerate taking the only bloke who looked like a real threat off, that cost you some fans tonight so act now and don't make it any worse...
Rant over, please act now or AG will be like a ghost town soon...
