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Early days but we now seem to be able to come back from nowhere........ Can he take us a step further?
Small Steps But...
Yes!
No question(with a little help in the transfer market)
I seem to have come away from today's game feeling a little less optimistic than many on here.
We're more attractive to watch admittedly, but we're conceding goals still and saving games with exciting draws isn't going to push us to the next level.
A lot of work is needed on the squad and I don't really have the belief in those upstairs to think that work will be done to the required standards. Hope I'm wrong but experience says I might not be.
We're more attractive to watch admittedly, but we're conceding goals still and saving games with exciting draws isn't going to push us to the next level.
A lot of work is needed on the squad and I don't really have the belief in those upstairs to think that work will be done to the required standards. Hope I'm wrong but experience says I might not be.
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We’re still far away from where we need to be buts its been a good start. Every team we come up against seems to have better wingbacks. McCann for me needs a run of games to help us control that midfield and turn the play over. I’d love to know how much they are willing to throw at this to get us firing on all cyclinders. Todays performance was a 5/10 and a big disappointment after the effort they put in against West Brom. Why did we not fight like that today?
I agree with this.
I think it'll take a bit of time for Ryan to get us to where he (and we) wants us to be. I'm delighted with the improvements he's clearly made - I'm sure if we still had Frankie we would've lost today and last week against Sheff Utd.
But, I think we still have a squad where a lot of the players clearly just aren't good enough and that will take more than one transfer window to sort out.
I've been banging the drum for those upstairs to back Ryan - do I trust them to not make the same past mistakes? I'm not so sure but we'll see.
So to answer the initial question, yes IF he gets the proper backing.
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And get a home win? Absolutely! 😉
It's really encouraging to have a manager who is clearly drilling his team to never give up and to take risks to get back into games - seems like years since we've had that.
But breaking into the top 6 is going to require a better squad - on the bench today (and even on the pitch today), there's quite a few "do a job" types, just filling a space. Too many of our backup players are the sort you only want to bring on as a last resort, which means we're forced to run our better players into the ground over multiple back-to-back games.
The long overdue massive squad overhaul has to happen if we're going to progress.
The worry is, come the summer, we'll need to sell off a few assets to pay for the rebuild, leaving the squad short of quality yet again.
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I’m hoping there’s more chance of the purse strings being loosened now we Lowe on board. He’s clearly ignited some belief in the team and amongst the fans, hopefully he’ll inspire the owners too.
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Don't doubt that Cha.. I have the same worries..ie He won't be supported (from years of witnessing it ). Lets hope that the Manager and owner now both see it differently... What's the point of owning a football club unless you want it to be successful? Come on Craig, you can't take it with you. :}
I'd like to hope so.
We were just really poor in midfield first half today. All 3 were abysmal. I actually felt sorry for Ledson as I thought Whiteman and Browne were worse than him but he was taken off for McCann.
They're all good footballers, they just had an off day but let's move on, they were all terrific on Wednesday at West Brom.
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My Mum was tight as a ducks arse and wouldn't lend me a tenner but left me 50k when I was way past needing it................ Both my kids are now on the property ladder because I don't believe in leaving it in wills so gave them half each.. Help now, not when you've snuffed it.. Are you listening Craig?🙂
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I'm sure tiredness has something to do with it. As fans I think it's hard sometimes to understand how some of the players are feeling on the pitch. Alan Browne certainly looked a few yards off the pace today.
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Puts it in perspective when you think you could have used your inheritance to cover a fairly shit player’s wages for a month or so.
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This might be a controversial opinion but I’m yet to see any evidence that McCann is a better player than Ledson
No, that’s a fair comment.
They’re both good players imho and both deserve a proper chance to show what they can do under RL. And that means a reasonable run of games in their favoured positions.
Because they are not fit enough to do it twice in a week, in my opinion. No surprise at all given what I hear about the training regimes over the summer and the start of the season.
Honestly think McCann could make a huge difference to us.
Our wingbacks don’t push up (like today) because the other team push up and our wingbacks are not fast season to cover back, so they sit deeper as to cover this limitation.
McCanns pace, fitness and reading of the game could cover for that limitation and be massive when we have proper wingbacks hopefully in the future.
I think the midfield is always missing that regardless of whether it’s DJ or Ledson playing.
Hope McCann gets and takes his chance on Tuesday.
Would be impressed with Lowe if he makes that decision.
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Today's game was a pretty good example.
Only Ledson thinks he's better than he actually is!