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Management Relegation
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Because I don’t know how many goals we conceded with that DP?
Why did even Frank fuck it off then?
I still remember your statements about how much better Frank was going to make us. Actual coaching and all that.
Not relevant to this discussion, where your points remain invalid.
Hence your desire to stray to your FDS (Frank Derangement Syndrome) default.
If Frank had had the final third I posted he'd have been ok.
The lack of it, coupled with a team that had been programmed to lose games (and it be just fine), was too much to overcome in such a short period of time (with so many injuries)
Clear now it will take much longer, and many windows, to weed out.
Lol.------Vic----If we can somehow manage to get to something like that for the last 3 games, we might just be ok.
-----Spence----Danso-----VDV----Souza----
---Bentancur---Palhinha--
----------Kudus-----Xavi---Maddison------
----Solanke--
That wouldn't do it?
Maddison return fanciful?
Thoughts on how we stay up?
How could you drop Gray for that abject midfield pairing that got us here in the first place?------Vic----If we can somehow manage to get to something like that for the last 3 games, we might just be ok.
-----Spence----Danso-----VDV----Souza----
---Bentancur---Palhinha--
----------Kudus-----Xavi---Maddison------
----Solanke--
Just watched this.
"I was at Blackburn and didn't think they go down, but they did"
"Then I was at Villa and didn't think they'd go down and they did"
"And I played for Tottnum"
Been blaming Ange for this shit, but it was Brad all along. Guys cursed.
To try not to concede 2-3 goals every single match.
Because we didn't concede many goals with them there.
And would have those 4 players in front of them to score the goals we couldn't when they weren't all there.
So we could attempt to score without getting bum raided on the counter.
#Balance
That midfield was the only time this season we picked up any points FFS.
I'd rather play turgid and win than lose trying to be more expansive.
The squad available to Frank was part of the problem. We'll never know how the season would have unfolded had he had a full complement to work with. I suspect we'd have been top 10/12.
The main problem with Frank, for me, was that he was the wrong fit for our club. His footballing instincts were the antithesis of what this club is all about. He set his teams up to go out not to lose. He lacked courage and his teams, consequently, played timid, risk free, bland football that sucked all the life out of games. The summit of his ambition had mid table mediocrity at its heart. We would never have won anything under him. Nice man, but a square peg in a round hole.
The main problem with Frank, for me, was that he was the wrong fit for our club. His footballing instincts were the antithesis of what this club is all about. He set his teams up to go out not to lose. He lacked courage and his teams, consequently, played timid, risk free, bland football that sucked all the life out of games. The summit of his ambition had mid table mediocrity at its heart. We would never have won anything under him. Nice man, but a square peg in a round hole.
He sussed that the players couldn't pass through midfield and retain the ball enough doing so and got turned over and countered too much.
So he went with a beefier mf as a mainstay and tried to mitigate that and to also have some security when our final third play -- due to lack of real cutting edge due to injury -- broke down.
The fans were having none of it and demanded more dynamist through the middle (which was then echoed in press conference by journalists), so he changed it, but then tried to hit the flanks more to bypass the aforesaid vulnerability in turning over the ball in mf too frequently.
I understood how fans felt, but the situation was the situation and we had hella injuries and limited proper footballers who could actually pass the ball and be relied on to do so.
The football he played at Brentford was not the football we saw.
And those being honest with themselves can appreciate why.
He did make a few solid mistakes though, which I've criticised him for.
But he was handed a wet fish and was expected to swing it around without it slipping out of his hands.
If we had the above final third I posted, to start with, we'd have been fine re. our league standing, as he would have had the tools to counter the deep saturation of losing mentality that was absorbed by them last season.
Anyway, he's gone and the idiots above need to get a grip and make the right move at this point or we're well and truly fucked.
They need to find a way to give us the best CHANCE.
Desperate times desperate measures. I actually like what I’ve head from Dyche, he’s clearly a good manager.
Honestly, I'm not sure there is a better option. Someone who can stop us from leaking 3 goals to other relegation candidates would be a step forward.
I disagree with virtually all of that. Opinions eh?
Your prerogative to.
Didn’t Gray start and score the last time we won in the Prem? Palace away
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