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Ryan Lowe Interview.

Ryan Lowe Interview.

yeah, I get the arrogance thing but, at the same time, it's mitigated for me by a genuine warmth towards whichever club he's managing; he's not purely in love with himself. might be a slime ball, time will tell, but you can't really begrudge him making the management moves he has. anyone else would probably have done similar. I don't doubt he'd ditch us for a bigger club should we do well but isn't that just the nature of the game?
 
I think RL's arrogance and hard-line attitude is exactly what the clubs been after tbh. Too many players sauntering along, taking a decent wage and not doing much for it. The younger players coming through will be influenced by the senior players and that just creates a toxic culture.

RL coming in to pull the rug from under their feet and telling them they need to work hard just to be considered is the best thing that we could hope for.

Not keen on the mention of being hemmed in by a budget relative to our position/finances, but it's to be expected I suppose. For me, this is about attracting the right players. Any manager can pick a good player, but it's pointless if they don't want to come here. That article is a cracking start!
 
Some might say The Stone Roses were arrogant, or Oasis. Saying they wanted to be, or were the best band in the world.

Some might say they were confident in their own ability.

Depends on how you see it at the time.

Lowe has merely said he wants to get PNE promoted, crowds up, and playing better football, which is why we employed him.

And now he's trying to formulate the correct squad, and doing a fairly meaningful job so far i would say, especially on the outgoings. I get the feeling that if it takes him time, to perfect us, he'd rather that than sign a player who isn't going to improve us.
 
Doc Brown said:
Quite.

Lowe’s ‘charisma’ has seduced some of the fan base into employing a few double standards where criticising the manager is concerned, in my humble opinion.
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Neil did start tinkering with a wingback system at times during his final season with us in fairness, although no one would argue that he preferred 4-2-3-1.

Interested what you mean by 'charisma' - he is borderline arrogant, granted, but is self-confidence really a bad trait in someone who's meant to be leading a group?

Just before him, we had someone in place with all the 'charisma' of a postage stamp.
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
Mentioned it in the podcast thread a few weeks back but I just can’t take to him at all, find him unbearably arrogant.

Won’t affect my judgment of his performance in the job though and if he takes us up I’ll be forever grateful but just don’t like his personality.
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At least he has a personality. ‘The first goal killed us.’ That quote alone should be enough to demotivate any player.
 
cragtek said:
Personality and self-belief isn’t arrogance in my view. Especially if he can back it up with results.
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It's just arrogance if he can't back it up with results.

And sadly the nature of the game means that if he does do well at Deepdale, one or other of the Parachute Payments Clubs will start circling. He did stay at Plymouth for some time before coming, so I don't believe he's  that mercenary .
 
Worry about his tactics, same old, doesn't take a tachnical genious to overide Low Lowes wing back system, even more so when we don#t have any? How do you play 3-5-2 whan we don't have the players?
 
outreacher said:
Worry about his tactics, same old, doesn't take a tachnical genious to overide Low Lowes wing back system, even more so when we don#t have any? How do you play 3-5-2 whan we don't have the players?
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When Neil was here, people did nothing but complain that he didn’t know his best team and was fiddling the tactics based on the opposition

Now we’ve got a manager who’s got a tactic he plans on sticking to, no matter the opposition, and you get people complaining about that
 
jamesOB said:
When Neil was here, people did nothing but complain that he didn’t know his best team and was fiddling the tactics based on the opposition

Now we’ve got a manager who’s got a tactic he plans on sticking to, no matter the opposition, and you get people complaining about that
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You could describe Neil as having exactly the same approach with the high press ( which was really impressive to watch )............ And then we got loads of injuries, outsiders were brought in to analyse and then everything went tits up and stopped.... We were made to make do and mend and slow down rather than employing players that could cope with it ........... And then another 2 years down the pan 🙄

I just hope that Lowe doesn't leave here in the same pissed off manner when he's far more capable of achieving something if backed. Neil was let down and I really hope that now Trev is out of the picture there will be a different outcome. Fingers crossed.
 
jamesOB said:
When Neil was here, people did nothing but complain that he didn’t know his best team and was fiddling the tactics based on the opposition

Now we’ve got a manager who’s got a tactic he plans on sticking to, no matter the opposition, and you get people complaining about that
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No problem with that as long as we have players who can play that system, last season and up to now we haven’t , and please don’t say Potts and DJ definitely not as first choices , back ups in emergencies fair enough .
 
lenny said:
No problem with that as long as we have players who can play that system, last season and up to now we haven’t , and please don’t say Potts and DJ definitely not as first choices , back ups in emergencies fair enough .
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I think DJ could do well in that role personally
 
But then who plays as our number 10 , playing our forwards in or even scoring himself , we already lack players up the pitch able to do that . For me what we gain in Johnson playing a wingback role we lose in creativity higher up the pitch .
 
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