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Ryan Lowe

Ryan Lowe

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Marks out of 10 so far ? Noticed a few rumbles of justified criticism on From the Finney podcast this week .I wondered how everyone rates him so far ?.I'm going 9/10 Charisma and bringing feel good factor back to the club . Slightly worried about rigid tactics and odd sign he plays Browne no matter how poor his form is when McCaan could be played in that position.7/10 for football so far .
 
7.5 for me. The football has been a marked improvement and his fan engagement has been very good. The total inability to score in the first half is a massive concern though. Also seems to wedded to this wing back system when we simply don't have the players to carry it out.
 
Better than Frankie, but there are gym teachers out there who could reach that low bar.

He is mostly stuck with a pedestrian, amateurishly-assembled squad of players, but he has elements of inflexibility too - hard to say for sure which is the biggest contributing factor to e.g. a debacle like Luton.

Would like to see him with a competently-assembled squad of 352-compatible Championship players to work with, but I'm not convinced we ever will.

Have to give him 7/10 so far - with the blunt tools provided, he's doing what the club have asked of him (deliver mid-table while repairing the toxicity that had developed between the club and the fans).
 
7/10. Felt he was let down in the January transfer market when it was painfully obvious what was needed.

Wednesday was definitely the lowest point of his reign so far and there's only so much you can do with the amount of rubbish at his disposal.
 
33% win ratio with Archer, the postman had a 42% win ratio, keeping to his preferred wingback formation (when we don't have wingbacks is madness), getting the fans back onside is fantastic though.
Playing Browne irrespective of his form/ability/desire is getting to be a bit of a joke, jury is firmly out on RL.
 
billymac said:
33% win ratio with Archer, the postman had a 42% win ratio, keeping to his preferred wingback formation (when we don't have wingbacks is madness), getting the fans back onside is fantastic though.
Playing Browne irrespective of his form/ability/desire is getting to be a bit of a joke, jury is firmly out on RL.
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Now you've raised this I'm going to a 6 from 7.
 
I must watch more closely if Browne is ever as bad as this forum seems to make out.........or the manager as bad for picking him based on this forum.

Lowe has the same issues FMc had - not enough good players to cover all positions regardless of formation....though at least RL has Archer whereas FMc had only Riis.....

a generous 7 but can see it getting to a 9 when he gets new players
 
Feel good factor makes him an 8
But I am definitely not enamoured with the football. The tactical rigidity, square pegs in round holes and what must be poor coaching as there is very little improvement in the basics of football ( passing ?) that give the ball away stat against Luton ) puts him down to 6 for football. Have to say I listened to FTF . I’d recommend it for a dose of reality. After sixty years of following North End I desperately want them to succeed but if Lowe doesn’t get his way with incoming (what’s the chances of getting quality wing backs) or change to a formation that works for the players then I fear his tenure may be short lived . There’s echoes of Phil Brown in there somewhere.
 
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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