He has 21 usable players not all of his choosing, that is a joke for a championship club and he has improved some but even he can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
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We have a striker who scored 17 championship goals last season. We have Brown, McCann and DJ who can all score from midfield. The system we are playing does not get us into good enough positions to be able to play to our strengths which has to be getting the ball out wide and playing it into the box where we have a good finisher in Riis and midfielders who know where the net is and can make late runs.
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Riis will never score close to that at this level again - he’s far from a good finisher, a good finisher wouldn’t need to rely on wonder goals and miss easy chances - and McCann has scored 1 league goal in his North End career
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That might be correct if you were at his interview...None of us know what he was promised but all of us know that he wouldn't be our first Manager to be blagged..
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The shape and defensive side of the team has improved significantly. Its just a traverty that none of Riss, Parrott, Evans or Maguire could hit a cows arse with a banjo. Lowe is on a hiding to nothing with the current "firepower"
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Correlation doesn't imply causation, but I'm pretty sure in this case it does.
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He said he wanted 2 players for every position and each of those would be pushing for the first team. He said he was happy with the trasnfer business but would have preferred another couple. As far as i’m concerned he has pretty much got what he wanted.
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I like Lowe and I know he's been shafted with recruitment, but I just don't buy what he's saying here.
"...what they don't know is that Alvaro took a knock to his thigh at half-time and was struggling to run towards the end."
Horse. Shit.
If Fernandez had a knock at half time, you don't jeopardise his fitness by trying to get him playing on for another 25 minutes. You get him off at half time and bring on Brady. You explain afterwards in this interview that you were very happy with his performance but he had a knock and you wanted him fit in the long-term. Easy.
"Ali and Alvaro were nearly covering 8-9 kilometers already. At some point, they were going to tire and fatigue, so we thought that getting a bit more freshness on to the pitch would help us."
Doesn't this quote suggest they hadn't yet tired? Why take him off, and not Browne who had contributed far less and probably runs a similar amount?
Also, I'm confused - is it because Alvaro had covered a lot of ground that he was substituted, or that he had a knock as mentioned earlier?
We played well today for about 35 minutes, due in no small part due to how well Alvaro and McCann played. The decision to take them off was baffling.
"...what they don't know is that Alvaro took a knock to his thigh at half-time and was struggling to run towards the end."
Horse. Shit.
If Fernandez had a knock at half time, you don't jeopardise his fitness by trying to get him playing on for another 25 minutes. You get him off at half time and bring on Brady. You explain afterwards in this interview that you were very happy with his performance but he had a knock and you wanted him fit in the long-term. Easy.
"Ali and Alvaro were nearly covering 8-9 kilometers already. At some point, they were going to tire and fatigue, so we thought that getting a bit more freshness on to the pitch would help us."
Doesn't this quote suggest they hadn't yet tired? Why take him off, and not Browne who had contributed far less and probably runs a similar amount?
Also, I'm confused - is it because Alvaro had covered a lot of ground that he was substituted, or that he had a knock as mentioned earlier?
We played well today for about 35 minutes, due in no small part due to how well Alvaro and McCann played. The decision to take them off was baffling.
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He was told he could get a right wingback and a striker, said so in the press, and was let down by the club.
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He needs to be careful because as I’ve said before, he’s come across as a bit of a gobshite does Lowe.
I don’t know if he thinks the fans are stupid, but to say after the game ‘Alvaro came off as he had a knock’ is a load of wank. Obviously, didn’t expect the backlash and has tried to bullshit his way out of it.
He’s also said that ‘it would be a worry if we weren’t creating chances’; we aren’t. Did we even have one clear chance today?
Fans aren’t idiots. Can’t be coming out with shite like that consistently.
I don’t know if he thinks the fans are stupid, but to say after the game ‘Alvaro came off as he had a knock’ is a load of wank. Obviously, didn’t expect the backlash and has tried to bullshit his way out of it.
He’s also said that ‘it would be a worry if we weren’t creating chances’; we aren’t. Did we even have one clear chance today?
Fans aren’t idiots. Can’t be coming out with shite like that consistently.
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Absolutely this …..and then he’s had to toe the party line and say he’s happy with what we’ve got.
Total false economy from the Hemmings clan because we were so very close to a decent squad.
Is your name Ridsdale or Hemmings? Oh and he hadn’t got two players for every position either. We have no rwb or a rb that’s not even one player for that position. what do you expect him to say ”the tight arses refused to buy what I was promised”.
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Its okay though, we have reintegrated Matt Olusunde into the squad, who was told he could leave for no fee!
Hang on he said he wanted two players for every position so he got the two on the left, I wonder if things would be different had he known they would pull the plug? Whichever way you look at it, it’s the bloody owners and advisor that are the common denominator with every manager.
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Bloody hell Joan. Im on your side here! The tone of my post is being misconstrued. Im just saying what RL wanted and what he has. If you were to put that to PR he would say we have Potts and Browne as RWB options. Im not sure he can defend himself on our attacking options though. I would swap them with anything else in this division. I am pissed off as you are, I can’t even see the end of a game out, i’m always half way to the car. As for the promises, its quite clear that they have sold him short otherwise he wouldn't have said he would have preferred a couple more. I don’t feel sorry for him and I don’t like what he has to say week in, week out.
As the second half was about to kick off Alvaro was talking to the physio so the knock thing is probably genuine.
Have we ever started a season without a win in our first 6 home games and scored 1 or less goals? Just dreadful no matter what the squad. Luton are hardly brimming with top class players but are capable of getting to the play offs as were Barnsley the year before.
Lowe strikes me as full of talk and out of his depth. A one trick pony with no plan B and a degree in bullshitting.
Why did we fall 2 players short in the summer? Lack of backing or targeting the wrong players or a bit of both? Could we not improved the squad with a couple of League One players or was it Andre Gray and Cyrus Christie or nobody?
I wonder how Ainsworth would have done with the same resources? He would have still have rebuilt the rapport with the fans and is a class act rather than a gobshite.
For me Lowe needs to go before he takes us down despite the lack of depth he is failing to produce anything of value.
Have we ever started a season without a win in our first 6 home games and scored 1 or less goals? Just dreadful no matter what the squad. Luton are hardly brimming with top class players but are capable of getting to the play offs as were Barnsley the year before.
Lowe strikes me as full of talk and out of his depth. A one trick pony with no plan B and a degree in bullshitting.
Why did we fall 2 players short in the summer? Lack of backing or targeting the wrong players or a bit of both? Could we not improved the squad with a couple of League One players or was it Andre Gray and Cyrus Christie or nobody?
I wonder how Ainsworth would have done with the same resources? He would have still have rebuilt the rapport with the fans and is a class act rather than a gobshite.
For me Lowe needs to go before he takes us down despite the lack of depth he is failing to produce anything of value.
100% This 👏👏
I posted on the Match Day thread, Lowe has not been backed properly, just like most (all) PNE managers.
Most other clubs in the division (large & small) manage to sign decent players, but not us? Why? Why do we make largely mediocre signings? (Woodman & Fernandez excepted)
Money spent on only one signing, the rest free transfers and loans - and that after reducing the wage bill by thousands.
What is the clubs strategy? What is our plan? Do we have either of these things?
However, as with all previous managers, we have to start looking at what Lowe is getting out of the players he DOES have, and ask if we would be getting better results with different tactics and different coaching.
1 goal in 6 home games simply is not good enough, whichever way you slice it. There really aren't any excuses for that. We can't keep a clean sheet in every game, so if we can't score then obviously we're in big trouble.
Feel really let down by the owners just as much as every other fan, but the manager can't be absolved of his responsibilities etiher.
Most other clubs in the division (large & small) manage to sign decent players, but not us? Why? Why do we make largely mediocre signings? (Woodman & Fernandez excepted)
Money spent on only one signing, the rest free transfers and loans - and that after reducing the wage bill by thousands.
What is the clubs strategy? What is our plan? Do we have either of these things?
However, as with all previous managers, we have to start looking at what Lowe is getting out of the players he DOES have, and ask if we would be getting better results with different tactics and different coaching.
1 goal in 6 home games simply is not good enough, whichever way you slice it. There really aren't any excuses for that. We can't keep a clean sheet in every game, so if we can't score then obviously we're in big trouble.
Feel really let down by the owners just as much as every other fan, but the manager can't be absolved of his responsibilities etiher.