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Ryan Lowe

Ryan Lowe

It's great being an idealist if you can make a good stab at those targets with the means at your disposal. He's persevered with a formation including Wing-Backs and has had to , game by game, find out His Way, that the Club doesn't have any player, apart from Brad Potts that has been a successful 'convert'. Full marks for trying, and I hope he gets what he wants in the summer. This is his 'assessment' period, and it's a bit hard to chew for us at the moment.
What I don't like is the constant picking of an only-average Browney, and a constantly overlooking of McCann.
Full marks for publicity, engagement,public relations or whatever you call it.
6 & a half.
 
A generous 7/10 for me.
Great rapport with the fans, which is very welcome and kudos for that, the football however is only slightly better now than before.
Frankie played 3-5-2 but it often degenerated to 5-3-2. RL has got them playing a little more forward, but not much and this has been his achilles heel by insisting on playing a system that we just do not have the Players for, that and his reluctance to play the one real talent we have in McCann.

I think he has made a mistake in trying to fit Players into a system rather than choosing a system to suit the Players we actually have at thiis moment. Surely a basic precept of any management concept!!

I would however like him to be given the opportunity to sign his own squad and THEN play his preferred style.
 
Once he gets his own players in and we are about 10 games in next season then the jury will be out on RL.

For me he's been an improvement on what we've had at the club recently.

One question that I would be asking myself If I was RL is will I get the chance to get my own players. I'd bet the last five North End managers were all lied too, and RL either should of seen this or has taken a gamble like the gaffers gone.
 
Liberation said:
For " togetherness " he gets a 10 from me..........The football gets a generous 6.
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FFS It's the football that counts most.I could generate a feel good factor. I couldn't manage a team though. They are 2 different skills. Give me a winning miserable atmosphere over a buoyant losing atmosphere. If you feel good being a mid table team ,fair enough. Not for me though.
 
twickerspne said:
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…..
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Tell Luton we are not easy to play against! We were lucky to get NIL.
 
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.
 
Definite improvement in the general match day experience, I look forward to going to games again, it had become a complete chore under McAvoy. I can definitely see an improvement in our play, there is a semblance of an idea rather than just playing for throw ins despite not having anyone who could take a long throw. We remain hampered by the fact we have extremely limited quality in our playing squad assembled from the Aldi middle aisle. Lowe at least understands the fans and, whilst it's a bit local panto at times, there is a mutual respect there.

All that said, if we lose to Derby and (particularly) the lashers then I can well see the mood being back to Novemeber times.
 
At last a thread which most fans seem to agree on ,yes some marks are on high side some on the low.
But his stubbornness to play the wingback system when we haven’t really got any and the fact McCann seems to surplus to requirements in the mid field department when he showed that is definitely where he should be playing is already I’m afraid starting to worry me .
As I’ve stated previously for any football team to do well in most leagues you have to have more than one formation depending on the team you are playing against . If we do sign two decent wingbacks and one gets injured we are back to square pegs in round holes , a different formation has to be found on occasions.
 
lenny said:
At last a thread which most fans seem to agree on ,yes some marks are on high side some on the low.
But his stubbornness to play the wingback system when we haven’t really got any and the fact McCann seems to surplus to requirements in the mid field department when he showed that is definitely where he should be playing is already I’m afraid starting to worry me .
As I’ve stated previously for any football team to do well in most leagues you have to have more than one formation depending on the team you are playing against . If we do sign two decent wingbacks and one gets injured we are back to square pegs in round holes , a different formation has to be found on occasions.
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Me too, I thought McCann was a class signing, baffles me why he isn't included as a starter, if I was McCann I would bang in a transfer request and bugger off where he is wanted and can play as a midfielder, not as a LWB utter stupidity.
 
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65on said:
FFS It's the football that counts most.I could generate a feel good factor. I couldn't manage a team though. They are 2 different skills. Give me a winning miserable atmosphere over a buoyant losing atmosphere. If you feel good being a mid table team ,fair enough. Not for me though.
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But surly the two things go hand in hand. Teams who are winning aren’t going to be miserable. Teams who are losing aren’t going to be buoyant.

We were sleep walking into a relegation battle under frankie so getting the fans back on side after that was and the shambolic summer transfer window what was needed and I feel he has in the most part.

Let’s see how he does next season.
 
Walton said:
If you had a quid for every time you heard someone say “next season” you would be in a position to buy the club yourself.
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Lowe has done well so far this season but I want to see how he really does bringing in his own players and putting his stamp on the team. I think that’s only fair. Plus we will have new owners next season too.
 
5/10 from me.
Appears to be as stubborn as AN and like him plays Golden Browne rain or shine.
As others have said, insists on 3/5/2 without having the players but at least shows some passion.
Exit door will be busy over summer........
 
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Lowe has done well so far this season but I want to see how he really does bringing in his own players and putting his stamp on the team. I think that’s only fair. Plus we will have new owners next season too.
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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”.
 
7/10 for me. Brought some enthusiasm back into supporting North End for me.

I’ve been surprised how solid we’ve been some games and then other games we’ve looked all over the place at the back.

I think there have been games where we has been out-thought by more experienced managers at this level but hoping with more experience and a summer to bring in players to fit his system, we should become more consistent.
 
Does make me laugh to read coments about this not being his squad and we can't judge him until he has his own players. I hope nobody is thinking Lowe will be able to bring a new starting 11 into the club this summer?

There's a fundamental squad shake up required, I have no faith whatsoever it will happen, and for all the talk of takeover it'd be a miracle if the new ownership were able to shift out all the shite we have and recruit the quality required to compete in one summer. The question will remain is Lowe the right man, long-term to manage us through this potentially exciting period? Imo to make himself unsackable he has to get a lot more out of this squad than he has so far through his own coaching and tactical approach.
 
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