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Ryan Lowe

Ryan Lowe

6/10.

I like his passion and communication.

The football has been more entertaining than Frankie or late Alex, but it hasn´t turned out to be as exciting as we were led to believe it would be.

In terms of results, we are better than under Frankie but not much. We were 18th when we fired Frankie and we are currently 14th. I would argue that Cameron Archer has made a big difference to our league position. I doubt we would be above 16th without him.

So, on the footballing side, not much improvement from coaching etc, and Riis is going backwards again goalswise, but Archer has helped.

Is the improvement more down to Lowe´s contacts than his coaching or tactics?

The reality is that even if this is the case it´s not necessarily as strong a criticism as it first seems. If PNE are ever again going to make a stab at the top 6 it will need us to bring in a few quality loans!

As others have said, let´s see in October where we stand. But I´m 6/10 and it´s on a downward trend.
 
pne_5000 said:
He's taken the job the for the money ! Well out of his depth and it's showing, can't make his mind up hence the tinkering. I don't like the guy, I don't like his management style.

Plenty on here still kissing the ass of Alex Neil, well sorry to break it to you pussies but he ain't coming back

For me, we need to get rid of RL and find someone else, someone like Leam Richardson would fit the bill. Our three point plan :

1) Stop ass kissing over your enjoyable recollection of Alex Neil - you're being an arsehole !
2) Get rid of Ryan Lowe - he's a shocker
3) Get rid of the dead wood - Brown, Potts, Hughes......maybe even Whiteman and Lindsay as well.
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Alright Voldemort, how you been?
 
SlaminSam said:
If he's taken the job without the option to assemble his own squad then he's an idiot.

I bet my bottom dollar our previous gaffers where told they could and look what investment they received.

For me, any manager is judged on the squad he assembles. Not the one he inherited.

He should atleast be allowed to bring in cover and starting dedicated wing backs as a minimum, if he wants to stick to a tactic he's proven works with Argyle. Which we may well be playing in 10 games time or so.
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Frankie wasn't afforded time to 'assemble his own squad'; pne manager and 'assemble his own squad' is an oxymoron.
 
Overall, I like RL and there are more positives than negatives but the 2 negatives for me are big ones.

1). Whilst I am not against him playing 3-5-2 you do need the right type of players to play that system and we clearly haven’t got them. It must be so easy to set up to play against us knowing that we will ALWAYS start 3-5-2 and without any recognised wing backs. When we go behind, or late on in games he changes to a more attacking formation which brings me to negative no 2

2). We tend to save ourselves for a late show and score more goals late on. Why he can’t set off with an attacking intent, get a couple of goals up and then revert to a 3-5-2 I have no idea. In a nut shell, RL is too predictable imo to be a success at this level. I hope he is successful but I think he will have to learn to adapt in order to be a success.
 
llanroc said:
Overall, I like RL and there are more positives than negatives but the 2 negatives for me are big ones.

1). Whilst I am not against him playing 3-5-2 you do need the right type of players to play that system and we clearly haven’t got them. It must be so easy to set up to play against us knowing that we will ALWAYS start 3-5-2 and without any recognised wing backs. When we go behind, or late on in games he changes to a more attacking formation which brings me to negative no 2

2). We tend to save ourselves for a late show and score more goals late on. Why he can’t set off with an attacking intent, get a couple of goals up and then revert to a 3-5-2 I have no idea. In a nut shell, RL is too predictable imo to be a success at this level. I hope he is successful but I think he will have to learn to adapt in order to be a success.
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Only 2 first half goals compared to 16 in the second half. Of those second half goals I suspect most are in the last 20 minutes.
 
llanroc said:
Overall, I like RL and there are more positives than negatives but the 2 negatives for me are big ones.

1). Whilst I am not against him playing 3-5-2 you do need the right type of players to play that system and we clearly haven’t got them. It must be so easy to set up to play against us knowing that we will ALWAYS start 3-5-2 and without any recognised wing backs. When we go behind, or late on in games he changes to a more attacking formation which brings me to negative no 2

2). We tend to save ourselves for a late show and score more goals late on. Why he can’t set off with an attacking intent, get a couple of goals up and then revert to a 3-5-2 I have no idea. In a nut shell, RL is too predictable imo to be a success at this level. I hope he is successful but I think he will have to learn to adapt in order to be a success.
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I don't like the guy, reminds me of Swiss Tony. This could be why I have a downer on him, I dunno that and the results of late plus the weird subs / tinkering
 
I like the guy and what he has done to to bring everyone together but I worry about his inflexibility and determination to play a system we do not have the players for . Variety is the spice of life and can keep opposing managers guessing rather than knowing exactly how we are going to be playing every week. As a lot have mentioned, the transfer window is going to be very interesting. 6.5 / 10
 
I think most signs are positive from Lowe but it's just been a tedious season, and the people who got giddy and thought we might have a play-off shot are now sulking because it unsurprisingly didn't materialise with our crap squad.

He'll sink or swim with his 3-5-2. He's drilling his system into the players and if they don't buy into it then i'm guessing they'll be pushed or frozen out next season.

The recruitment needs to be spot on in the summer, if it's not, then it doesn't really matter who the manager is, it'll be mid-table again or worse.
 
SMURF said:
I like the guy and what he has done to to bring everyone together but I worry about his inflexibility and determination to play a system we do not have the players for . Variety is the spice of life and can keep opposing managers guessing rather than knowing exactly how we are going to be playing every week. As a lot have mentioned, the transfer window is going to be very interesting. 6.5 / 10
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Might be a nice guy, good with children, helps the elderly across the road etc....he's not doing it in the dug-out as far as I am concerned.
 
SF said:
I think most signs are positive from Lowe but it's just been a tedious season, and the people who got giddy and thought we might have a play-off shot are now sulking because it unsurprisingly didn't materialise with our crap squad.

He'll sink or swim with his 3-5-2. He's drilling his system into the players and if they don't buy into it then i'm guessing they'll be pushed or frozen out next season.

The recruitment needs to be spot on in the summer, if it's not, then it doesn't really matter who the manager is, it'll be mid-table again or worse.
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My money is on "sink", he's not swimming that's for sure.
 
outreacher said:
Why play a formation that is now predictable for any team that does it's homework, we don't have the players to continue with 3-5-2. maybe next season when we have the wing backs. It's a stubborn approach, when he left Plymouth I read their website, and the critisms were that he wouldn't change formation and 3-5-2, shit or bust, not questioning RL, I know nowt about management of a football club, but to keep with the same formation without the players available for that formation is somewhat daft.
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Because it's the plan for next season. Our central defence needs to learn the roles Lowe wants them to play, as do the midfield and strikers.

What's the point playing a new formation we have no plans to recruit for going forward?

Not that we have the players available for anything else either. We have no centre halves I'd trust together in a 2, no fit full backs beyond Rafferty, and no wingers beyond Sinclair and Murphy, who'll be gone by summer.
 
Walton said:
It was just a general observation, we have heard it since Finney retired, I guess the law of averages says that it will come to pass one day, lets hope it’s “next season”.
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Dirty Harry said:
I'm also sick of hearing 'next season'. It's like Del Boy this time next year we'll be millionaires, Rodders.
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I see your point but out of all the seasons you and any other fan who has said ‘next season’ this is probably the one to say it.

I’m don’t mean in terms of going for promotion but having a new owner makes things a lot more interesting than previous seasons. Dismiss that all you want but surly you can admit a little bit that you are interested in what will happen once the new owner is in place and how will he take the club forward.
 
pne_5000 said:
He's taken the job the for the money ! Well out of his depth and it's showing, can't make his mind up hence the tinkering. I don't like the guy, I don't like his management style.

Plenty on here still kissing the ass of Alex Neil, well sorry to break it to you pussies but he ain't coming back

For me, we need to get rid of RL and find someone else, someone like Leam Richardson would fit the bill. Our three point plan :

1) Stop ass kissing over your enjoyable recollection of Alex Neil - you're being an arsehole !
2) Get rid of Ryan Lowe - he's a shocker
3) Get rid of the dead wood - Brown, Potts, Hughes......maybe even Whiteman and Lindsay as well.
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Please refer me back to two, or at the very best, three 'Ass-Kissers of Neil', who presumably don't realise how he got so hacked - off being given nowt for the last 2 seasons that he may as well have been working at McDonald's , yet it took a complete season for Ridsdale to realize his reaction....

This is such a comprehensive slagging.
In a style that would make any lurking Shitpool fans squeal with glee.

"Ryan Lowe is a shocker" shock .Yeh he S.F.A. at Bury & Plymouth, m8.

And who do we play next?

Please confirm you don't pong like a Bin-Lorry;- of Rotten Oranges....

Are you Crap-Pool in disguise ?

I ain't buying this drivel any more than my Great-Grandad bought the drivel on the 'Wireless' that 'Lord Haw Haw ' tried to tell him, 80 years ago.
 
SF said:
He'll sink or swim with his 3-5-2. He's drilling his system into the players and if they don't buy into it then i'm guessing they'll be pushed or frozen out next season.

The recruitment needs to be spot on in the summer, if it's not, then it doesn't really matter who the manager is, it'll be mid-table again or worse.
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I think this is exactly why he's continued to play it. If he can get 7 or 8 bought into the way it's played now then he'll be hoping with the addition of a couple of proper wing backs, potentially one he knows very well, things might to start to click. Otherwise he'd have a lot of work to do in the summer.

It's a 6/10 for me overall I think.
 
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