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Ryan Lowe

Ryan Lowe

Well the football is definitely better than under FM, everyone can see what he’s trying to achieve but I find the continued wing back formation difficult to understand when we clearly don’t have the players to justify it. I don’t think he’s doing himself any favours with this approach.

He’s done incredibly well to get the fans as excited as he has, considering the standard of football isn’t brilliant and the general malaise around the club. He’s a great front man who talks an excellent game and gets everybody up for it, but that fan love-in will wane very quickly if results don’t improve.

I’d definitely like to see what he could do with a better group of players.

Overall, I’d say

10/10 for PR and communications
6.5/10 for football, with the caveat that we have a very, very average squad
 
I think he's been the right man at the right time to be honest. We were incredibly stale and at the very least he's injected a bit of life back in to the club.
I think he's inherited a limited, unbalanced squad. We certainly haven't recruited for 3-5-2 in my eyes, yet we also have no wingers (Barkhuizen and Murphy have largely been unavailable while he's been here) so I'm not sure what formation we can play without an element of square pegs in round holes. Perhaps a midfield diamond to compensate our obsession for signing central midfielders?
Personally I'll be judging him at the end of next season if he's still here. But generally, I think he's done well with what he's got so far.
 
6/10 all things considered.

Personality wise he’s exactly what was needed after the end of Neil and then Frankie. Tactically he’s got a lot to prove imo. Personnel wise I think he’s managed some players badly. The early exuberant performances have dried up. I think that’s down to the age old problem of North End’s lack of genuine quality and depth though.

Plymouth are flying with Schumacher and Lowe finished 18th with Plymouth last season, 6 points above the drop.

Big big summer ahead, and an important season for Lowe to prove himself next time. Hopefully the takeover goes through because if it doesn’t, the squad will not improve, and next season will finish with a wimper, just like the last half dozen seem to have.
 
7/10 so far. At the moment I'll accept Wednesday was a blip.
Only 2 out of 18 goals scored in the first half so there is an issue there.
Until Luton we had been surprisingly solid away from home.
We have been playing better football without hitting great heights.
If he can prevent the all too frequent end of season fizzle out along with winning the derby games my rating may improve to 8 or 8.5.
 
California_PNE said:
We were starting from an incredibly low base weren't we under Frankie, so this is a factor.

For me he talks a superb game and that has rubbed off on many supporters who love him and his approach, excellent. Away support especially seem to thrive off it.

He's implemented many basic good decisions as he's a proper manager, solid basic shape and approach, players for the most part seem to be buying into it, massive improvement over the previous incumbent.

Imo he's getting only par out of this squad, the minimum requirement. Disappointed in the stubbornness with respect to formation and shape, we've seen zero variation really & opposition team preparation must be easy. There's been very little development of our corner routines, throw-ins, set pieces, nothing really, and he's failed to get the best out of our potentially 20 goal a season striker, in fact riis looks as low on confidence as ever.

Par for me. Not that impressed tbh. Can't see a couple of wingbacks sorting anything out and getting us "attacking with 6 and defending with 4"
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Riis doesn’t look as low as confidence as he was during his first 12 months here where he was treated like dog shit. In fact dog shit was probably treated better.
 
The feel good factor isn’t as good as the points tally justify(?) Too many draws(?) But we have stopped losing, and we are not easy to play against. Case in point the Bournemouth game. RL’s empathy with the fans is huge. And I suspect players really like playing for him. Riis is a hard one. I suspect he needs coaxed along a bit with RL.
I am convinced we will be top 4 next season . I even thought we’d make the playoffs this time. But remember Rome wasn’t built in a day. Give RL one summer of recruitment to fashion the team and we will be serious contenders. And keep Iverson any which way we can…..
 
RibbletonWhite said:
Riis doesn’t look as low as confidence as he was during his first 12 months here where he was treated like dog shit. In fact dog shit was probably treated better.
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Digging deep as ever you fucking troll 👍 think you need to get a life, subbing our top goalscorer off at half time is doing him the world of good isnt it 👏
 
Passion, togetherness etc is all there but you cant win games solely based on that. I think he can do well in the long term given his own signings. The stubbornness with this formation though and playing players out of position in it when it clearly doesn't fit with our squad is his biggest flaw so far
 
I think were just as crap as we were under the former management.

I didnt blame the former management and I dont blame the present management either, It goes so much deeper.

Been like this since the early 60s, 5 decades of nothingness. We are exactly where we were when I started supported them, 2nd tier with no real ambition of moving further.

Weve had the opportunities, finishing just outside promotion in the early 60s and a cup final, then nothing until along came Moysie but................ ?The chequebook said no, then came Billy Davies, so so close but again the chequebook said no. And that, my friends is that.

Weve had good managers, indifferent managers and some pretty poor ones but, to a man, theyve all worked with a hand tied behind their backs.

New owner?

New hope if it happens because, rest assured, if we stick as is then another 5 decades on we will be having the same debate.

I want to blame the players but they consistently achieve their brief which is keeping us in this league.

As for Lowe, I like the guy, hes brought a lot to the table, so far, but the football, whilst showing shoots of improvement remains dire. I dont think that is his fault.
 
Overall positive, however Jury out till we see what happens in the summer. Luton game resulted in a massive question mark. Gut feel is positive .
 
Personality wise a breath of fresh air.

Can’t judge him on form as he’s inherited years of poor buying and the odd culture some of the players seem to have.

Seems hell bent on wing backs when we haven’t got any. Worry about McCann.

Needs a chance with better players - fear he could be an innocent victim of the takeover.

6.5/10
 
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