He could play Millar instead of Brady tbf, and Whiteman could be more advanced with Ledson in there. Browne on the bench. He has decent squad options.
Is Lowe evolving?
I would play
Woodman
Storey Lindsay Cunningham
Potts. Whiteman
Holmes Mads/Browne Millar
Keane Osmajic
The idea being Holmes and Millar do track back to covers the wings and Potts whiteman to cover the defenders when needed….worked for me in football manager 😀
Woodman
Storey Lindsay Cunningham
Potts. Whiteman
Holmes Mads/Browne Millar
Keane Osmajic
The idea being Holmes and Millar do track back to covers the wings and Potts whiteman to cover the defenders when needed….worked for me in football manager 😀
Some good and valid points. However, how are the likes of Best ever going to get experienced when they are overlooked by the likes of under performing players like Brady,Cunningham etc? OK you may say loan them out to lower league clubs to gain experience. That is not gaining experience at this level. Every now and again a manager has to make a decision that might not be popular and take a gamble on a youngster. Mawene is another who is waiting in the wings. There will come a time when they will say sod this I'm off I want to be a footballer not a seat warmer. Mr Lowe I reckon that time to gamble is now whilst the season is relatively in it's infancy. So yes we may lose some games but what is the difference we are losing them anyway with your tried and tested preference of players. Is Ryan Lowe evolving? Yes, into a predictable manager who appears to pefer not losing a match rather than winning it.
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In the "Good Old, Bad Old Days" there used to be a 'proper' Reserve Team system , where the second eleven of PNE ( even though the Club were in the second or third division, - would play the likes of Manchester United's or Everton's reserves.
These sides would be a mixture of -
(a)second choices ( who didn't make the 'bench' - which numbered far fewer than now .
(b) promising young-uns. ( some of whom were on the brink of breaking-through ) &
(c)players well down the road of recovery, and playing as both part of their therapy and to knock some more of that 'rust' off, in order to gain match fitness.
(d)player(s) just bought from a new club up-to-speed & see just how fit he is.
All that's gone now. The resses don't play 42
competitive games a season & therefore aren't 'Match Fit' . There's no opportunities to assess these players and also look at a Big Club's players in the same way, and how they play against your own players. Less opportunity for your Club to 'scout' or 'watch' those other players.
From the fans point of view, if your team was playing far far away to make it less possible to go, you could watch the reserves & maybe see how they cope against playing a "big star" for them.
Instead , we get a packed bench, some of whom know they aren't going on. And such a bench suits a Very Big Club. They are 'banking' players, so they can't play. Against them. Plus there's an instant pitch replacement for their 'star' player who takes a knock- simply replace them with that second 'star' player. (which Clubs does that favour, I don't wonder 😐?)
These sides would be a mixture of -
(a)second choices ( who didn't make the 'bench' - which numbered far fewer than now .
(b) promising young-uns. ( some of whom were on the brink of breaking-through ) &
(c)players well down the road of recovery, and playing as both part of their therapy and to knock some more of that 'rust' off, in order to gain match fitness.
(d)player(s) just bought from a new club up-to-speed & see just how fit he is.
All that's gone now. The resses don't play 42
competitive games a season & therefore aren't 'Match Fit' . There's no opportunities to assess these players and also look at a Big Club's players in the same way, and how they play against your own players. Less opportunity for your Club to 'scout' or 'watch' those other players.
From the fans point of view, if your team was playing far far away to make it less possible to go, you could watch the reserves & maybe see how they cope against playing a "big star" for them.
Instead , we get a packed bench, some of whom know they aren't going on. And such a bench suits a Very Big Club. They are 'banking' players, so they can't play. Against them. Plus there's an instant pitch replacement for their 'star' player who takes a knock- simply replace them with that second 'star' player. (which Clubs does that favour, I don't wonder 😐?)
I like what i've seen from Best, and I don't think he would offer any less than Cunningham or Brady, but ultimately, we have a L1/2 youth setup, and it's unlikely any of the others are good enough to be starting games in the Championship. Woodburn getting minutes off the bench instead of Mawene is a sickener though.
And they were played at Deepdale when the first team played away. You could get into the games on your season ticket.
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So RL got his couple of signings.
Things haven't changed in terms of style of play but I still reckon he's going to end up finishing where this squad probably should. Mid table pushing for top ten, maybe.
Problem is, as Preston North End we need an anomaly of a manager. Basically someone who's too good for us to get a midtable squad pushing. RL probably isn't the man for that, but I can't exactly say he's failing, although by the end of the season I don't think I'll be saying he's succeeding either.
Don't know why he made that absolutely unnecessary substitution on Saturday.
Best was dropped because he wasn't good enough defensively. A job that Lowe realised Brady could do as badly if not worse. We'd have been better leaving Best in and letting him hopefully learn as he played more and more this season than persevering with the more experienced and equally bad defender.
Ye neither do I, I don't however subscribe to the conspiracy theory that it was for $ for Woodburn. I'd have brought Stewart on and really gone at then.
I think we got lucky with Best on a couple of occasions, Sunderland he left us completely wide open and if it wasn't for the recovery pace of Hughes the Sunderland lad probably would have scored and to play the lad against the likes of West Brom, Leicester and Ipswich could have been a lamb to the slaughter, maybe better that Brady was the sacrificial lamb rather than one of our up and coming youth team players.
Brady does understand the positions positioning and I think that's why he is in, but also he can delivery an undefendable set piece at times.
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Yeah, people spout this like it's some binary good vs bad thing. Brady made more tackles in his hour on Saturday than Best has all season. It's not 'equal'. It's not even close.
In addition, Best also gave possession away more than Brady does.
Like, I understand people have much higher expectations for a senior pro than a youth team graduate. But it's burying your head in the sand to act like they're just the same is not it.
I just thought it was a very lazy substitution, the only way he could make a like for like attacking substitution was to do that. He couldn’t replace either forward because they’d only just come on, he couldn’t really go to 3 up front without exposing us defensively and, as good as Best‘s delivery is, you couldn’t ask him to play in a completely new position - he’s not even apparently a wing back by trade.
In a way, the more proactive and stronger decision would have been to leave it well alone.
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You are describing Best and not Brady aren't you? Unless you are describing a direct walloping into the net then I was far more impressed from what I saw of Bests "deliveries". The lads deliveries and corners are quality.
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Brady's the past and Best is the future....... So lets be honest, we'll do jack shit again this season so why not use Best to progress him even if it's bringing him on late. Saturday was a perfect example.
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And he will die trying to hold that hill imho....
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If you want to say the entire season is a write off, that's your prerogative, I doubt the club and players feel the same. And people say I'm a pessimist!
I agreed that bringing him on late, on Saturday would have been a good choice- think that's the best way to use him right now.
If we get to a point where Best is good enough, I'll be the first to call for his inclusion. Wishing really hard doesn't change the facts though.