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Lowe's Progress

Lowe's Progress

Thanks.... Actually that suggests that we do indeed concede 62% of goals in the second half but also score 62% in the second half too... certainly using the same measure. Maybe Lowe just is just super-tight in the first half and then more open in the second. ???
 
See our ”progress” as a train going round a bend full of loose tracks and sooner or later Things are going for a full on derailment.

been lucky some of the loans have come off well and effectively covered some cracks, but pretty much any pacy ball playing team with flair players will beat us.

all momentum from our promotion to the championship is long gone and the squad needs a big refresh, sadly and realistically that’s not going to happen.

progress is it appears, is a slow glacial decline in squad quality, performance and a slide to league 1. given the teams coming down from the premier league, up from league 1 unless there’s some big surprises next years going to be a big struggle For PNE.
 
Just more bullshit from the man I’m afraid. Bullshit that most can see through now.

He doesn’t have the capability to “keep building” or to “make progress”.

He “builds” players’ confidence saying it’s a good group and we’re a good side, does all his fist-pumping to get all the glory when things go right and then “destroys” his players whenever things are going badly. Sort of one step forward and two huge strides backwards. I call that regressing not progressing.
 
Berlinender said:
I still think Billy Davies and Lowe would make a dream Management pair, whereever they may peddle their bollocks 😀
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I don’t think KBD would accept his team rolling over and dying the way we do under Lowe.

At 2-0 on Monday there was half an hour left to get back into it, but I never thought we would.

They took the mick, played keep-ball without much pressure and could have scored more.

We went behind 23 times over the season and lost 17 of those games.

We got 12 points from losing positions (three wins Norwich, Boro, Wigan, three draws, Burnley, Luton, Blackburn).

We showed definitely showed fight in those games, but a cynic might say two were down to dodgy penalties, two came from Jordan Storey, Norwich scored a freak deflection for us and then there was THAT own goal. 🥳

Point is, once we went behind, there was a 74 per cent chance we would lose.

And a near 100 per cent chance that Lowe wouldn’t make a tactical change that would help us get something out of it. 😕
 
Staffordwhite said:
And a near 100 per cent chance that Lowe wouldn’t make a tactical change that would help us get something out of it. 😕
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"3-5-2 is my system" said Lowe upon appointment.

Which is entirely his problem; he's wedded to a system we don't have the players for, and doesn't seem capable of changing it up when opponents figure us out.
 
Regardless said:
Thanks.... Actually that suggests that we do indeed concede 62% of goals in the second half but also score 62% in the second half too... certainly using the same measure. Maybe Lowe just is just super-tight in the first half and then more open in the second. ???
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Or maybe it's because he ends up being tactically outdone more often than not
 
In his defence I think very often Lowe has been let down by players particularly "premier league" strikers who have time and again fluffed their lines in front of goal. If chances had been taken a good proportion of those early 0-0's would have been wins. Delap's first half miss on Monday summed it up for me. How Pep turned down £16 mill for him is beyond me. Last Summer Parrott signed a 3 year deal with Spurs, very odd.
 
Staffordwhite said:
Lowe talks about us 'making progress' and says we need to 'keep building'. 🤔

He also says we're heading 'in the right direction'. Really?

Some stats from the season compared to the previous one (when we had Frankie in charge for half of it):

Fewer points (63/64)
Fewer goals (45/52)
More goals against (56/59)
More defeats (17/14)
Worse goal diff (-14/-4)

We scored just 20 goals at Deepdale in 23 matches.

Only relegated Wigan (17) and relegated FGR (15) scored fewer at home in the entire EFL. It's absolutely pitiful.

He talks in the media like we've 'just fallen short' but we were six points (and a 27-goal swing) away from the play-offs.

It wasn't close; we didn't finish 7th - we were 12th.

When we did somehow get a glimpse, we folded like a pack of cards as soon as we played anyone half-decent (or more tactically astute).

(For example, he made a big thing about Sunderland 'paying us (ie him) a compliment' by matching us up at half time... Yep, and they duly stuffed us in the second half you numpty!😕)

Look, we know it's hard and changing the manager is just rearranging the deckchairs if Ridsdale is still stinking the place out.

But if this 'me-me-me (but it ain't my fault)' Billy Bullshitter left tomorrow - like he would if he were to get a serious offer - I wouldn't shed any tears.

Either way, he's gone by Christmas.
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FFS we had terribly bad luck with ER getting injured he scored 20 goals last season also CE missed a lot of matches same with Parrott.
Stop searches for negatives to prove a point .I no people arnt happy so let’s move on & start looking forward to a positive season.
People in this country have become so miserable & negative cheer up everyone it’s only football.
 
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Libertine said:
In his defence I think very often Lowe has been let down by players particularly "premier league" strikers who have time and again fluffed their lines in front of goal. If chances had been taken a good proportion of those early 0-0's would have been wins. Delap's first half miss on Monday summed it up for me. How Pep turned down £16 mill for him is beyond me. Last Summer Parrott signed a 3 year deal with Spurs, very odd.
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They're "Premier League" strikers, but they're not Premier League strikers - they're young lads at Prem clubs, similar age to the lads we pack off to non-league on our outsourced pathway.

Today for Lancs.Live, Lowe points out we fought off League One interest for Cannon and Fernandez - that's the market we're in, battling with L1 clubs - while also mentioning 7-figure permanent signings by Millwall, Coventry and Luton, that "they were probably competing with a couple of other teams - hence why they had to pay a bit more to get them".

The message is clear - we'll compete with L1 clubs for loans and players, but we won't compete with Championship clubs.

So if our Prem loans struggle to score for us this season, this could be one reason why - we're gambling on them being able to skip L1 and go straight into the Championship - similar to the way we hope to integrate our own youth players into the first team, without them having loans at L1 clubs first.

If we step back and look at the big picture, we're basically behaving exactly like a L1 club, not a Championship club. This is presumably our "strategy".
 
Thracia said:
They're "Premier League" strikers, but they're not Premier League strikers - they're young lads at Prem clubs, similar age to the lads we pack off to non-league on our outsourced pathway.

Today for Lancs.Live, Lowe points out we fought off League One interest for Cannon and Fernandez - that's the market we're in, battling with L1 clubs - while also mentioning 7-figure permanent signings by Millwall, Coventry and Luton, that "they were probably competing with a couple of other teams - hence why they had to pay a bit more to get them".

The message is clear - we'll compete with L1 clubs for loans and players, but we won't compete with Championship clubs.

So if our Prem loans struggle to score for us this season, this could be one reason why - we're gambling on them being able to skip L1 and go straight into the Championship - similar to the way we hope to integrate our own youth players into the first team, without them having loans at L1 clubs first.

If we step back and look at the big picture, we're basically behaving exactly like a L1 club, not a Championship club. This is presumably our "strategy".
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Think Parrott scored 10 (?) for MK Dons in League 1.

I suppose it's a hit and miss market, we've not done so bad in in the last two seasons. Archer, Cannon, Fernandez have been great. I believe the defensive side of Fernandez has improved a great deal with us. P
 
nomorebigideas said:
"3-5-2 is my system" said Lowe upon appointment.

Which is entirely his problem; he's wedded to a system we don't have the players for, and doesn't seem capable of changing it up when opponents figure us out.
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We don't the type of player to switch it up... We don't have players for any system... Who can he bring on to change things ? Woodburn? Ledson? More to do with budget than coaching imo... And for the people saying he bigs his players up then puts them down, what is he supposed to do ? Say they are shite all the time? Manager's are supposed to call players out if they aren't performing.
 
Rodney Bewes said:
And we tend to concede more in the second half after the opposition has made their tactical changesView attachment 12514

I bet there's only a handful of games where we make the first sub
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How does this compare with when goals are scored in general across all games? My initial gut feeling is that more goals are scored in the second half of games but I may be wrong.
 
Thracia said:
They're "Premier League" strikers, but they're not Premier League strikers - they're young lads at Prem clubs, similar age to the lads we pack off to non-league on our outsourced pathway.

Today for Lancs.Live, Lowe points out we fought off League One interest for Cannon and Fernandez - that's the market we're in, battling with L1 clubs - while also mentioning 7-figure permanent signings by Millwall, Coventry and Luton, that "they were probably competing with a couple of other teams - hence why they had to pay a bit more to get them".

The message is clear - we'll compete with L1 clubs for loans and players, but we won't compete with Championship clubs.

So if our Prem loans struggle to score for us this season, this could be one reason why - we're gambling on them being able to skip L1 and go straight into the Championship - similar to the way we hope to integrate our own youth players into the first team, without them having loans at L1 clubs first.

If we step back and look at the big picture, we're basically behaving exactly like a L1 club, not a Championship club. This is presumably our "strategy".
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Archer went to the North East for a reason. He came and had a look at us and decided he didn’t want another spell at a league 1 club that’s in the championship 😩
 
Libertine said:
In his defence I think very often Lowe has been let down by players particularly "premier league" strikers who have time and again fluffed their lines in front of goal. If chances had been taken a good proportion of those early 0-0's would have been wins. Delap's first half miss on Monday summed it up for me. How Pep turned down £16 mill for him is beyond me. Last Summer Parrott signed a 3 year deal with Spurs, very odd.
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But they don’t play in the premier league. They aren’t premier league strikers yet.

Just because you are a passenger in a Ferrari doesn’t mean you own one.
 
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