That's Lowe on his way then 🤣 🙈
Last 10 mins
At least we won't have to keep paying him for a couple of years if fucks off on his own bat! 😉
I would have written at the time but I was on a PNE game mate
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Lowe promised attacking football. His first few games demonstrated how we can play when we let the shackles off.
Middlesborough at home last season was probably the best example.
So, far this season - it would appear that the shackles are back.
They are playing with fear of making mistakes. Risk averse.
Maybe they care too much?
I'm convinced they want to play for Lowe. But maybe they are scared to let him down?
Get a shrink in. Tell them to have fun. Something! Maybe they fear the squad competition - one mistake and they are out? (Potts is playing like a watched man, with all the talk of RWB priority) Maybe we are reading too much into the pass completion stats?
They are not bad footballers. This is far from a crisis.
But the number of sideways ponderous safe balls; deep-sat midfield; and reluctance to try something and take the initiative - suggests these boys playing way beneath themselves.
Middlesborough at home last season was probably the best example.
So, far this season - it would appear that the shackles are back.
They are playing with fear of making mistakes. Risk averse.
Maybe they care too much?
I'm convinced they want to play for Lowe. But maybe they are scared to let him down?
Get a shrink in. Tell them to have fun. Something! Maybe they fear the squad competition - one mistake and they are out? (Potts is playing like a watched man, with all the talk of RWB priority) Maybe we are reading too much into the pass completion stats?
They are not bad footballers. This is far from a crisis.
But the number of sideways ponderous safe balls; deep-sat midfield; and reluctance to try something and take the initiative - suggests these boys playing way beneath themselves.
So they are playing with shackles on because they're afraid of making mistakes, and your response is to tell them that if they make a mistake, they're out?
Saturday was fine, just missing a goal or two. The chances were there, and plenty of them, while the opposition created next to nothing. It's frustrating to be sat on 2 points rather than 4, but there was very little wrong on Saturday, especially second half.
I thought they played really well on Saturday, on a different day with a bit of luck something would have gone in. Hull completely shut up shop and did it well and yet we still made a hat full of reasonable chances. As for Potts personally i dont see any change, he has moments when you think wow !! but most of the time he is average at best.
Mu only suggestion is to vary it a bit. We are still predictable and rarely does a midfield player, other than Browne, make an incisive run into the box, too often reliant on Riis and Parrot to do the obvious. Experienced defenders can read that backwards. Switch it round a bit, do the pre planned unexpected and I think we will surprise a stubborn defence like Hull.
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I said maybe they fear the increased competition which they think might mean one mistake and they're out. So, the opposite of that.
Agree. Not a crisis. The highlights are all North End. It just felt like long spells of both game's so far lacked the intensity we know they are capable of.
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Yeah of course he will...
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There are many on this forum who will criticise the players who do take a chance with a forward ball (which is always riskier than the sideways, sideways, backwards stat-padding approach of others).
