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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 7, 2020 16:22:19 GMT
He has to go. If he can't set us up to beat a team of youngsters then he clearly wouldn't be able to set us up, get the tactics right, and get his message across at all against a 'proper' L1 team.
He just has to go today
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 7, 2020 16:16:19 GMT
FFS Again!
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 7, 2020 16:10:31 GMT
Well done JML (is he anything to do with those really annoying products that you didn't know you want being advertised on screens in all sorts of hardware shops?)
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 7, 2020 15:19:57 GMT
I give up!
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 2, 2020 18:03:16 GMT
3 pts at Southend and a 1-0 win at home to Sunderland and watch the change around-just need to get behind him I can't see what evidence there is to be this confident - and liking your own posts, come on! I'm wondering if I'm beginning to smell something unpleasant?
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 2, 2020 16:07:13 GMT
Soz,realise it won't be a one match ban as I'd hoped but our midfield is so bereft of quality I just wish we had more options.A 25 year old Chris Lines would be nice. Ogogo has 2 more of a 3 match ban to serve. Then he is still on 9 cautions so one more in either of the first two games he is back will mean another 2 match suspension. Upson is also on 9 cautions. The cut off for the two match ban for 10 cautions is 37 league games - so Upson has to avoid a yellow for four more games, and Ogogo 2 games assuming he is picked again as soon as his current ban is finished.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 2, 2020 14:03:17 GMT
Give him to end of season? Ok, but what if form and performances continue in same vein? It would then be absolute madness to expect next season to be any different. Look up Nathan Jones pathetic performance at Stoke over a similar period as a case study of wishful thinking! Give him to the end of the season but there would have to be consistent signs of improvement. I don’t make every match but some have said there have been signs of a change in ethos at other games. Clearly yesterday was not one of them. I just don’t think he’s got the players that can produce what they are training all week on a match day. The worry is with our finances/level we play at, I’m not sure he will. He is used to working with much more technically gifted players. You don’t find many of them in league one and those you do cost money. UTG This is the key thing for me. In the 'Will BG ever get us playing his way' thread I made a similar point. I fear we will be unable to attract the calibre of player to ever make his style work in our league. The players he can recruit might have technical ability but they won't be up to the rigours of League 1. He doesn't seem, to me, to be willing or able to recruit the blend of youth and experience we need - all technical youth will only end up in relegation.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 2, 2020 13:44:30 GMT
The smoking gun was planted! But being serious, I guess his philosophy, his contacts and his interviews are a plus. Just wish it would translate to success on the field admittedly. Yes he has the contacts, a good philosophy etc. but it's no good if the team don't want to play for you. In his interview after Saturdays game he said they practised his policy really well in training but failed to do so on the pitch. This looks like the players don't believe in it and certainly didn't look like they had any kind of tactical plan on Saturday. I was all for giving BG a chance (even prepared to go backwards before we started to go forwards) but I don't see any shoots of progression and whilst I think we are safe this season unless the team start believing in him then a change is needed ...and soon! What is the saying - 'In any conflict no plan survives first contact with the enemy'. Of course it's not quite the same, but if the opposition won't let us play the way he wants - or we're not good enough to play that way when faced with real opposition rather than just doing it on the training pitch - then BG has to realise that and change it. He is just displaying the inability to manage a situation by persevering with an approach that doesn't work.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 2, 2020 13:30:10 GMT
I would revert to a back 5, which gives Leahy more protection/help until THD is fit. Clarke has a role to play whilst Ogogo is suspended - 2 more games and then the risk of two more if he gets another yellow as soon as he returns from this suspension. We must also play two up front.
Blackman Menayese/Harries Craig Kilgour
Rodman Clarke/Ogogo Sercombe Upson Leahy/THD
JCH Daly
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 1, 2020 18:04:16 GMT
Parkinson has got Sunderland playing with a back 3/5 and, to be fair, not the biggest or best squad in the league (better than ours of course). It took him a while to get it working well, but six wins in the last 10 shows it is the way to be solid and attacking in this league, especially if you don't have a fit right back, or strong left back, available.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 1, 2020 14:16:14 GMT
Southend A Sunderland H Ipswich H Peterborough A Rochdale H Portsmouth A (to be rearranged) Oxford A Burton H Accrington A Lincoln H Gillingham A
With the way we are playing, I can't see us getting more than 5 or 6 points. If we don't at least draw at Southend and beat Rochdale at Home, then I fear we might not get another point at all.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 1, 2020 13:28:13 GMT
Can’t disagree with any of it except I thought that Rollin, Alfie and Blackman were the only ones who came out with any sort of credit. The rest were absolutely terrible. If Garner wants to play high press 433 then he absolutely has to understand he cannot do it with Craig in back 4. With Leahy as a left back. With Alfie as a rb. With Upson and Clarke together and with Ginelly floating around the place. Who the hell plays an out and out centre half at RB when it’s not enforced? Not only is it stupid but it was completely ineffective. And not only that, see it not working but continue with the nonsense all game. Go 352. I mean it’s so obvious. The subs were there to change it. Who would you have played at right back in a flat back four yesterday? The answer is, surely, that we shouldn't be playing a flat back four without the personnel to make that work. We should be playing a central defensive 3 with wing backs. We would be far more solid and attacking at the same time.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 1, 2020 13:23:50 GMT
Don't go Dave. I didn't see what was posted, but please don't let the reaction drive you away. Have a beer or two this evening and come back soon.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 1, 2020 9:33:42 GMT
Ollie Clarke was the worst player on the pitch yesterday. If this was a one-off poor performance he could be forgiven but it wasn't, he is consistently very poor. He spends most of the game jogging around and staying just far away enough from the ball to avoid getting involved. If he does get the ball he loses it in the tackle, passes to the opposition or turns and passes back to our defence. Yesterday there were times when he looked bewildered, even arguing with Sercombe (who played quite well) about their roles. Apart from about 10-15 minutes early second half he seemed totally disinterested. I have said before that he is a good club ambassador, so Club Captain yes - Matchday Captain an emphatic No. I know not all agree about the role of the on field Captain, but I believe the role is important - encouraging and organising and driving the team on. Yes of course others can do that, but the Captain should have that extra bit of authority, and of course has to calmly interact with the officials. On his performances, I will bow to others who see the whole game rather than bits on ifollow, or via commentary as I mainly experience, but the last part of your piece Kev is key for me. If he, the Captain, is bewildered - what on earth is the instruction from the Manager??
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 17:40:52 GMT
I admire your loyalty Axegas, but BG is proving that he is incapable of setting up a team to play the way that is required against other teams in League 1. He seems to be stubborn in his formation and tactics when it is plainly obvious that it isn't working - either because we don't have the players to play that way or the oppositions formation and tactics negate ours - or both. A good manager would set us up differently, play to the players strengths that he has at his disposal, take account of the oppositions players and form, and change things during games as required. Despite him bringing in a significant number of his own players in the January window he still would appear not to have the personnel required to play his way, yet he won't change. He is proving to be inflexible and incapable of managing a lower league football club.
I really hoped that him joining was the sign of a new exciting way of playing football for us, but sadly it isn't working, and to give him longer just risks this malaise carrying over into the new season, and then we will be staring at relegation. I'm sad to say it, but he isn't a Manager and has to go asap.
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 17:06:10 GMT
Simply not good enough Looking at Garner walking off I wonder if he will resign this evening I suspect a severance deal might not be difficult to negotiate. Seems a really nice guy but unfortunately that's not enough. Can't image what he will say in post match interview. There has to be a performance related element to any contract surely. His record is so awful I can't see anyone disagreeing that he should be released with some compensation (3 or 6 months pay?), but not paying up his full contract.
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 16:59:06 GMT
Go Now (before you see me cry)
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 16:50:15 GMT
It is just woeful. 46% possession, 4 shots, only 1 on target, 1 corner - they've had 12 shots, 4 on target, 4 corners. We're supposed to be at home against a team on a poor run!
There is no excuse for not setting us up to take the game to them today
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 16:38:50 GMT
He may be a good technical coach of individual players, but it is clear that he has no ability to set up a team, to set tactics, to change formation as and when the game and the opposition require it. I wanted the new vision to work, but it clearly isn't and he has to go to give us time to get a new man in who can assess the squad and plan for next season over the Summer
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Post by Rod1883 on Feb 29, 2020 16:30:31 GMT
FFS I'm sorry BG - you have to go
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