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Is Lowe evolving?

Is Lowe evolving?

OB1 said:
He’s certainly not a manager that’s ever going to take us anywhere. Solid enough to avoid relegation probably but he’s nowhere near tactically astute enough to get a club our side promoted.
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I’d say we have players better than the football we play.

We seem to have gone back to the Alex Neil days of having a surplus of midfielders
 
milkyken said:
I’d say we have players better than the football we play.

We seem to have gone back to the Alex Neil days of having a surplus of midfielders
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Mads and Browne should be the No 10 options, then two of Ledson, Whiteman and McCann for the defensive midfielders. Holmes isn’t a 10 for me, not physical like Browne and not creative enough, looks like a winger
 
OB1 said:
Mads and Browne should be the No 10 options, then two of Ledson, Whiteman and McCann for the defensive midfielders. Holmes isn’t a 10 for me, not physical like Browne and not creative enough, looks like a winger
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We have players, newly signed, that have been signed for a system they don’t fit in to.

We play wingbacks without wingbacks, we have wingers but don’t play wingers, a back 3 that are slow and bypass the 10’s by playing long ball.

They are obviously instructed that if the attack is breaking down it’s pass back and start again passing from side to side moving the opposition from one side to the other.

As soon as Potts had it today they had 3 players round him and then it’s pass back.

When they had the ball they sat all their players in our half, we set up 15 yards deeper. It’s awful.
 
milkyken said:
We have players, newly signed, that have been signed for a system they don’t fit in to.

We play wingbacks without wingbacks, we have wingers but don’t play wingers, a back 3 that are slow and bypass the 10’s by playing long ball.

They are obviously instructed that if the attack is breaking down it’s pass back and start again passing from side to side moving the opposition from one side to the other.

As soon as Potts had it today they had 3 players round him and then it’s pass back.

When they had the ball they sat all their players in our half, we set up 15 yards deeper. It’s awful.
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It's pretty bad that marking Potts out of the game cuts our creativity to almost zero.
 
RL needs to go back to grassroots basics…pass out from the back and move the ball to the opposition half as fast as possible by psssing and moving…then when the other team have the ball put pressure on them and chase them down.. not drop back and soak up the pressure.
 
bkfu76 said:
RL needs to go back to grassroots basics…pass out from the back and move the ball to the opposition half as fast as possible by psssing and moving…then when the other team have the ball put pressure on them and chase them down.. not drop back and soak up the pressure.
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yes this is where Lowey should be, grassroots park football, this would give the twat more time for his media stuff
 
For me I'm starting to ask questions of Lowe, there's small underlining issues with his management that are starting to creep in regularly now that need to be addressed, issues that I thought signings would have changed. Poor dull performances, lack of tactical flexibility and insistence on playing certain players to name 3.

His persistence with players such as Ledson and Brady are starting to cost us football matches, a team playing with those two regularly do not have the control of a game or attacking impetus/flexibility needed to sustain a top 6 push and to improve us from last season. That left hand side today of Brady, Ledson and Cunningham looked slow, unimaginative, composure-less and at times painfully poor and meant we were purely 1 dimensional all game as it effects the balance of the rest of the time.

The thought of playing with a midfield today without Whiteman in actually sends shivers down my spine, thank god he is back, we look miles better in the middle with him there and we need to play Holmes next to him in there, any further inclusion of Ledson just starts to ring alarm bells about the managers competency.

We're also starting to see the repetitions in performances that happened last season because of our lack of specialist wing-backs, something that continues to make the re-signing of Brady look poorer and poorer with every one of his continued inclusions, but do you make the call and play the inexperienced Best?

Lowe has now been backed, but have performances improved? It's hard to say yes after the last 4 showings and some victories where in some cases we were passed and moved off the park. Teams like Plymouth, Birmingham and Sunderland made us look silly at times with not necessarily better players.

There's no better game for Lowe to show that he can get a big home performance and selection out of his team than Southampton, especially if the players and Lowe want to show that our early season form wasn't just a flash in the pan and we're heading for mid season mediocrity again, after actually spending money in a transfer window.

I and I'm sure others at the club are starting to think we deserve more for our money.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
The thought of playing with a midfield today without Whiteman in actually sends shivers down my spine, thank god he is back, we look miles better in the middle with him there and we need to play Holmes next to him in there, any further inclusion of Ledson just starts to ring alarm bells about the managers competency.


Without Whiteman we were top of the league, unbeaten with our best start to a league in decades, Whiteman comes back and no wins, scabbed two draws and the midfield looks week with others having to cover for Whiteman's lack of desire.
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OB1 said:
Mads and Browne should be the No 10 options, then two of Ledson, Whiteman and McCann for the defensive midfielders. Holmes isn’t a 10 for me, not physical like Browne and not creative enough, looks like a winger
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I think Holmes was played on the wing at both Derby and Huddersfield. Play him on the right - with Millar on the left and we would have two players who attack the bye line . Osmajic and Evans would love the service.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
For me I'm starting to ask questions of Lowe, there's small underlining issues with his management that are starting to creep in regularly now that need to be addressed, issues that I thought signings would have changed. Poor dull performances, lack of tactical flexibility and insistence on playing certain players to name 3.

His persistence with players such as Ledson and Brady are starting to cost us football matches, a team playing with those two regularly do not have the control of a game or attacking impetus/flexibility needed to sustain a top 6 push and to improve us from last season. That left hand side today of Brady, Ledson and Cunningham looked slow, unimaginative, composure-less and at times painfully poor and meant we were purely 1 dimensional all game as it effects the balance of the rest of the time.

The thought of playing with a midfield today without Whiteman in actually sends shivers down my spine, thank god he is back, we look miles better in the middle with him there and we need to play Holmes next to him in there, any further inclusion of Ledson just starts to ring alarm bells about the managers competency.

We're also starting to see the repetitions in performances that happened last season because of our lack of specialist wing-backs, something that continues to make the re-signing of Brady look poorer and poorer with every one of his continued inclusions, but do you make the call and play the inexperienced Best?

Lowe has now been backed, but have performances improved? It's hard to say yes after the last 4 showings and some victories where in some cases we were passed and moved off the park. Teams like Plymouth, Birmingham and Sunderland made us look silly at times with not necessarily better players.

There's no better game for Lowe to show that he can get a big home performance and selection out of his team than Southampton, especially if the players and Lowe want to show that our early season form wasn't just a flash in the pan and we're heading for mid season mediocrity again, after actually spending money in a transfer window.

I and I'm sure others at the club are starting to think we deserve more for our money.
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No shit sherlock! Hopefully all that experimenting in pre season gets us a result mid week!
 
Sedge_Fan said:
As title suggests.

When RL first took over, there was a huge boom, the club seemed to reconnect with the fan base and many more ST were sold.

RL seems to have taken a bit of stick (warranted or not) but it seems to me that he is evolving as a manager. This system and brand that he is seemingly wed to seems to have evolved - it seems to me that he is finding different ways to win games.

Give the guy the tools.

COYW!!!
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I am worried about us tbf we set off well but have been found out recently and Lowe has no plan B,west brom has broke us 😢
 
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