Posh build up

Oh come on aghast, it’s obviously Joey. 👀

But you said another posters opinion was nonsense? 

For the record and to keep it simple, imo opinion I think MT is making a bloody mess for himself and in 6 weeks he’ll wish he could wipe it clean and start afresh….if he doesn’t already.

It’s also my opinion that from what I’ve seen I have no bloody idea whatsoever what we’re good at or what we are trying to identify as other than run around a lot and if that doesn’t work I’ll change players and ask them to run around a lot.

We’ll win some and lose some and it’ll be in completely random patterns from one week to the next.

What you never see with that format is gradual progression.

It’s quite sad to see that we aspire to be and expect a heavy defeat against a team that have basically sold anything that’s worth anything to anyone for 20 plus years

How can Rovers fans complain about another L1 club being bankrolled by wealthy foreign owners when that's just what is happening at Rovers, just to a lesser degree? Probably only the likes of Exeter & Shrewsbury don't have foreign Investors, I think even Peterborough have American co-owners.

Tomorrow's game will be an interesting one as the pro MT camp claim we're only struggling because he brought in 16 news players in the summer, however, Posh brought in 12 and lost probably 3 of their best players, so they should really be similarly struggling, although according to MT yesterday that doesn't seem to be the case.

No but you haven’t really understood anything I’ve said.

Taking time to settle, a tough league, new squad etc are all valid reasons for progress to be slow. But it still has to be progress.

What we have is a slapdash ad-hoc manner in which the team have appeared to be put together, chopped and changed in the one area that needs continuity and understanding, needlessly searching for a mythical formula that doesn’t exist.

It’s the lack of a clear identity and a plan as to how to get the best out of players using a simple logical process.

If I could see a pattern of play, an evolution of style or signs that things are being pieced together I’d give him all the time he needs but each week he’s chucking the baby out with the bath water and ripping up the formula and trying something else!

Against Cambridge he thought he’d cracked it and it took a professional football manager a week and a different opponent to work out that the main reason it looked good was that Cambridge were absolute dog sh**e not that he’d found the right formula!

A week later the personnel is changed and a week later it’s changed again.

It’s sh** at a fan management.

We lose tomorrow and the midfield will change again next week guaranteed.

Assuming you're referring to the changes MT made to the midfield how many were enforced due to injury etc rather than a bit of DC like tinkering?

MT's started every game with 3 at the back, and the same nucleus of players i.e. Bola, Wilson, Moore, in defence, Bilingo & MT at wing backs and Sortirio & Omochere upfront, it's not like he's making wholesale changes in formation and personnel each game.

Personally I feel we needed a dominant CH, and a quality ACM but Taylor's never really found his form since he returned from Stoke and Ward as struggled all season and Hutchinson seems more a Westbrook than a Ward type player.

The only enforced ones were Conteh v Barnsley and then Ward v Wigan.

We started the season with Ward / Conteh / Hutchinson. That really wasn’t as bad as some are making out and 2 clean sheets and a tough game v Stockport was a reasonable start. But we weren’t happy with the work ‘with the ball’.

Cambridge saw Garrett come in and we saw the emperor in his new clothes and MT proclaimed himself as clever for spotting how the midfield hasn’t been working and Garrett was the thing we’d been missing and it was the BEST we’d been with the ball.

One game later and we barely saw the ball v Barnsley and I know people will argue different but we chased shadows. It was now apparently because Conteh was missing and it was hard to defend without his presence and McCormick was the fall guy.

By half time and two corners v Wigan it was Hutchinsons fault and we looked all over the place defensively and that was with Conteh playing….now it was because we missed Ward and people started noticing the emperor actually wasn’t wearing new clothes and people started seeing Garrett was naked. A change of system and 5 subs later it was the worst performance people had seen in a long long time and Conteh wasn’t the saviour as we lost 4-0.

A week later and we’re looking at Lindsay being the missing piece (I actually think he is important!) and our hopes are pinned on the 17 year old who didn’t even make the bench last week while a fit ward is back but out the team along with “our brightest creative spark” (MTs words last week) LT!!

Hutchinson started 3….didnt get on for 2….started the next one…dragged off at half time.

Macca was a sub for tired forwards all pre season and for first three games…then a starter in CM….then does’t even appear off the bench in a 4-0 loss.

Kofi was on the bench….out the squad all together…on the bench and came on….out the squad all together….now looks like starting.

It’s just so random!!

As are the scorelines…..WdLWLL….as are the goals conceded..0..0..2..0..2..4

The only consistent thing is the goals scored….1..0..0..2..1..0

The criticism after 3 clean sheets in 4 was not scored enough…now we don’t score enough and keep conceding. The possession stats are bottom of the league…the shots conceded at bottom of the league….

I just don’t see progress in any department.

Genuine question, do you?

You haven’t understood of you think it’s all ok and it’s just a season for finding life tough and winning a few and losing a few.

The aim….regardless of results is to see improvement…on a gradual process if needs be. Results will eventually reflect that.