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According to Ridsdale at the time of Lowe's appointment, one of the driving forces behind his appointment was his preference for 352, as we had 'recruited for this formation during the summer'.
This despite (arguably the woefully inept Olosunde and Earl aside) there not being a natural wingback in the building. I can only think these comments were influenced by McAvoy's assertion that our defenders were not good enough to play in a back 4 at the start of last season.
The only real 'strategy' behind our recruitment seems to have been the stock piling of central midfielders window after window. People ask for a formation change, but the squad is also devoid of full backs and wingers so not really sure where we'd go with that...
Ultimately we've failed abysmally with plan A, and not even bothered with a plan b. There'll be a new manager in the seat before long, a fresh face to carry the can for the club's inability or lack of interest to produce any kind of long term footballing plan.
 
Paul Weller said:
More than half of all games are boring now: not just ours. You only have to watch the EFL show to notice that teams aren't having a shot on target until the 75th minute. This infers that a high perecentage of too many matches are tedious bouts of meaningless possesssion at the end of which the ball rarely enters the box. I'm rather wary of the type of football that will be on offer in Qatar given the current brand of possession football we are enduring, the stifling heat and the fear of making a mistake. God help football.
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Yup, agree. It's one of the many reasons I'm slowly falling out of love with football. Too much money at stake, too much underserved expectations leading to too much pressure on players and managers, too much cheating, too much time-wasting, the crap that is VAR and the utterly ridiculous failure to understand that it's only used when a "clear and obvious error" is made, Sky Sports and their absolute failure to consider fans journeys etc, the growing influence of foreign owners (especially Americans), foreign owners full stop, the lack of time given to young Managers who are hunted down by the club they work for only to face calls for the sack when things go poorly, the reliance on older Managers who do little other than follow the merry-go-round and pick up fat welcome and farewell payments.

BH, have I just typed that? Must have been listening to Radiohead.
 
Walton said:
Typical PNE eh, always sign the bridesmaid, never the bride. 😟 🤣
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That reminds me of the Westley era......... He came in with Dreyer as his assistant ( who he treated like a lacky behind the thug of a first team coach, whats his face Maamria, ) ... When he got sacked Dreyer took over for just the one game and we took top of the league to the cleaners ( bournemouth from memory )...... Another bridesmaid that but we should have kept although in fairness I don't think he was that interested in " managing "....... 😀
 
baldnobber said:
According to Ridsdale at the time of Lowe's appointment, one of the driving forces behind his appointment was his preference for 352, as we had 'recruited for this formation during the summer'.
This despite (arguably the woefully inept Olosunde and Earl aside) there not being a natural wingback in the building. I can only think these comments were influenced by McAvoy's assertion that our defenders were not good enough to play in a back 4 at the start of last season.
The only real 'strategy' behind our recruitment seems to have been the stock piling of central midfielders window after window. People ask for a formation change, but the squad is also devoid of full backs and wingers so not really sure where we'd go with that...
Ultimately we've failed abysmally with plan A, and not even bothered with a plan b. There'll be a new manager in the seat before long, a fresh face to carry the can for the club's inability or lack of interest to produce any kind of long term footballing plan.
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You've got to laugh haven't you? 😀
 
Liberation said:
That reminds me of the Westley era......... He came in with Dreyer as his assistant ( who he treated like a lacky behind the thug of a first team coach, whats his face Maamria, ) ... When he got sacked Dreyer took over for just the one game and we took top of the league to the cleaners ( bournemouth from memory )...... Another bridesmaid that but we should have kept although in fairness I don't think he was that interested in " managing "....... 😀
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Slightly off topic, Maamria is the new Burton Albion manager.
 
Liberation said:
That reminds me of the Westley era......... He came in with Dreyer as his assistant ( who he treated like a lacky behind the thug of a first team coach, whats his face Maamria, ) ... When he got sacked Dreyer took over for just the one game and we took top of the league to the cleaners ( bournemouth from memory )...... Another bridesmaid that but we should have kept although in fairness I don't think he was that interested in " managing "....... 😀
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His experience of being an assistant manager after us were Southport, ware, Oldham and Barnet. I don’t think his coaching experience is that good
Based on that.

Luckily we didn’t keep him and appointed Grayson - a proper manager who took us up 😀
 
RibbletonWhite2.0 said:
His experience of being an assistant manager after us were Southport, ware, Oldham and Barnet. I don’t think his coaching experience is that good
Based on that.

Luckily we didn’t keep him and appointed Grayson - a proper manager who took us up 😀
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We dicked Bournemouth though ............. And Grayson was just a poundshop version of Irvine... Far too comfortable with no ambition other than comfortableness..
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Where's Grayson now if we want to do some shooting down like you did with Dreyer? 😀
 
Liberation said:
We dicked Bournemouth though ............. And Grayson was just a poundshop version of Irvine... Far too comfortable with no ambition other than comfortableness..View attachment 9419

Where's Grayson now if we want to do some shooting down like you did with Dreyer? 😀
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Yes we did. We also won 5 out of 8 games under frankie so I wouldn’t really appoint an assistant manager based on one result. We beat Swansea and Barnsley (play off teams) under frankie…….

We appointed Grayson who did the job he was asked for and took us up. Saying Dreyer should have been appointed instead based on one match is stupidity at its highest.

The point I was making about Dreyer and his jobs after us was he can’t be that good if his next role after us was four years later at Southport. Grayson at least had some decent managerial roles once he left us although he failed in every one.
 
janiejones said:
To be fair to Barton, Jimmy Hill once blamed the ball girl for a goal scored in a Blackburn v Liverpool match.
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The ridiculous thing was, it was an own goal too! I was actually a ballboy for that match (don't judge me...!) when Radio Lancs summariser Mark Atkins scored an own goal to equalise for Liverpool in the last minute of an FA Cup tie.

There were so many complaints that the ballgirl involved, Gillian, ended up going all expenses paid to a few England matches and getting a full apology from the BBC!
 
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