I can't disagree with you except for one point; I know the team in the play-off final would have been following Evatt's tactics, however, when things are going drastically wrong the team should take matters into their own hands, and play with freedom and determination, they didn't.
As for Evatt, I hope he can pull off a great escape and get us back into contention at the top of the league. Do I think it will happen, no. Something is missing in his management and coaching methods. He needs a good tactician coaching the team and he hasn't got one.
Now that Craddock is supposedly departing, he has the chance to change things, the question is will he make the right appointment?
This is a smallclip from the Bolton News. “Arsenal are a really difficult team to create and score against, and we had moments tonight which is pleasing,” the manager added.
Yes, they are hard to score against but they are a Premiership side. The point is, did he learn anything from that? Our defence has changed from a reliable defence into a leaky one. Work needs to be done.
Some of it is Evett's tactics of playing out from the back. I'm not advocating the long ball way of playing but that can sometimes be effective. I'm talking about the tippy-tappy football from our defenders when the opposition forwards are within striking distance.
How many mistakes has Santos made recently through bad judgment when opposition players have been in good positions to seize on mistakes? I would suggest too many.
Several factors. Was in great position after beating Fleetwood over Christmas. Lost Jones to Australia for weeks and he hasn't been anything like since. The cup ties against Luton and the EFL trophy got in the way, not enough investment in January/signed too late. Injuries to Baxter, Charles, Adeboyejo all out for weeks, cmg out for the season. The squad couldn't cope with it and lost ground to derby.
We were in the final and we were awful, we didn't even compete. What did Evatt say to them at halftime? Whatever it was it didn't work it got worse.
Don't forget, this is the fourth season in this league. I don't think any of us envisaged this. It certainly wasn't in the plan.
How long can he go on? If he hasn't made good progress by Christmas, that should be the time to get shut. You can't give him another budget for players, you need to get a new manager and let them spend the money.
We haven't got long, Christmas will be here before we know it
On another topic, we found a great house, had our offer accepted and now we have to wait for the solicitors to finalise the sale and get a date for the turnover. Everything should be moving now as we have had a memorandum of sale issued today.
I can start to relax now and let others get on with it.
Didn't think he was going to be here at the start of this season.
Worst thing he did was to rethink the entire system rather than understand why we couldn't deal with pressing.
He's now got a bit of time back again after changing back. If this next set of fixtures doesn't go well he will be off during the international break when there's more time for a replacement to be found.
As for the tactics. He needs to get away from trying to be Pep and hybrid between him and Klopp. In style not class of course.
Traditionally we sack the manager in the October International break, after a bad result at Millwall. Sadly a bad result at Millwall is beyond our reach this year, but the timing is right.
Whenever these discussions come up, I do wonder: who is available, better, and likely to want the job?
In answer to Exiled's question I understand that DJ Trump is currently technically unemployed.
Alright being serious for a moment your question is of course pertinent and needs to be considered.
However I firmly believe that it will become a secondary consideration and rightly so if we continue to play as badly as we have been doing. And even more so if we continue making schoolboy errors playing a system we're simply not equipped to use.
Frankly I think we need someone who will (a) keep it simple and recognise the limitations of our players and (b) Will instil in them the confidence that has been so sorely lacking for most of this calendar year if not even longer.
It doesn't have to be a big name, it could even be a rookie so long as that person is clear about what the realities are and can actually lead the club.
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posted on 26/9/24
I can't disagree with you except for one point; I know the team in the play-off final would have been following Evatt's tactics, however, when things are going drastically wrong the team should take matters into their own hands, and play with freedom and determination, they didn't.
As for Evatt, I hope he can pull off a great escape and get us back into contention at the top of the league. Do I think it will happen, no. Something is missing in his management and coaching methods. He needs a good tactician coaching the team and he hasn't got one.
Now that Craddock is supposedly departing, he has the chance to change things, the question is will he make the right appointment?
This is a smallclip from the Bolton News. “Arsenal are a really difficult team to create and score against, and we had moments tonight which is pleasing,” the manager added.
Yes, they are hard to score against but they are a Premiership side. The point is, did he learn anything from that? Our defence has changed from a reliable defence into a leaky one. Work needs to be done.
Some of it is Evett's tactics of playing out from the back. I'm not advocating the long ball way of playing but that can sometimes be effective. I'm talking about the tippy-tappy football from our defenders when the opposition forwards are within striking distance.
How many mistakes has Santos made recently through bad judgment when opposition players have been in good positions to seize on mistakes? I would suggest too many.
posted on 26/9/24
Several factors. Was in great position after beating Fleetwood over Christmas. Lost Jones to Australia for weeks and he hasn't been anything like since. The cup ties against Luton and the EFL trophy got in the way, not enough investment in January/signed too late. Injuries to Baxter, Charles, Adeboyejo all out for weeks, cmg out for the season. The squad couldn't cope with it and lost ground to derby.
posted on 26/9/24
We were in the final and we were awful, we didn't even compete. What did Evatt say to them at halftime? Whatever it was it didn't work it got worse.
Don't forget, this is the fourth season in this league. I don't think any of us envisaged this. It certainly wasn't in the plan.
How long can he go on? If he hasn't made good progress by Christmas, that should be the time to get shut. You can't give him another budget for players, you need to get a new manager and let them spend the money.
We haven't got long, Christmas will be here before we know it
On another topic, we found a great house, had our offer accepted and now we have to wait for the solicitors to finalise the sale and get a date for the turnover. Everything should be moving now as we have had a memorandum of sale issued today.
I can start to relax now and let others get on with it.
posted on 26/9/24
Didn't think he was going to be here at the start of this season.
Worst thing he did was to rethink the entire system rather than understand why we couldn't deal with pressing.
He's now got a bit of time back again after changing back. If this next set of fixtures doesn't go well he will be off during the international break when there's more time for a replacement to be found.
As for the tactics. He needs to get away from trying to be Pep and hybrid between him and Klopp. In style not class of course.
posted on 26/9/24
Traditionally we sack the manager in the October International break, after a bad result at Millwall. Sadly a bad result at Millwall is beyond our reach this year, but the timing is right.
Whenever these discussions come up, I do wonder: who is available, better, and likely to want the job?
posted on 26/9/24
In answer to Exiled's question I understand that DJ Trump is currently technically unemployed.
Alright being serious for a moment your question is of course pertinent and needs to be considered.
However I firmly believe that it will become a secondary consideration and rightly so if we continue to play as badly as we have been doing. And even more so if we continue making schoolboy errors playing a system we're simply not equipped to use.
Frankly I think we need someone who will (a) keep it simple and recognise the limitations of our players and (b) Will instil in them the confidence that has been so sorely lacking for most of this calendar year if not even longer.
It doesn't have to be a big name, it could even be a rookie so long as that person is clear about what the realities are and can actually lead the club.
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