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Manager Thomas Frank

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Richard Arlison said:

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Excellent press conference.

Disappointed with a draw and I felt we deserved more.

I hadn’t even clocked that this was after a European night. We were so limp last year after Europa nights but second half today and probably the first 20 mins of the first half we were aggressive and physically dominant.
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Pretty much how I felt, it was surprise to go in 2-1 down

We actually had two good halves, and the ref actually had big influence today with his awful, corrupted decisions.

It was good to see us keep fighting to the end though, and just a shame we didn't go on to win.
 
FightingIllini said:
Fixed the leaks at halftime, that's always encouraging to see.

I'm surprised how aggressively he's rotating the team, he virtually never did (other than to change the shape) at Brentford playing once a week. It's a good thing, so long as you can keep a consistent level and rhythm in the team.
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Many coaches have their first team that they play every weekend and whenever they play multiple games in a week they put on a pure secondary team. I like Frank's approach of rotating two or three players every game. That keeps the players fresh while maintaining a decent chemistry within the team.
 
Attack they said.

Frank said... OK.

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I like the way he's using the squad. Seen some people moaning at why we didn't start Sarr and Xavi vs Brighton but Frank's clearly trying to keep players fresh and not just running the same 11 into the ground.

Sarr had played almost every minute until yesterday and runs non stop. Makes sense to rotate him every now and then. Meanwhile Xavi's still new to the league and adapting. He should start 90% of games moving forward but it makes sense to ease him in a bit.

Just seems like smart squad and load management to me. Keeps players fresh and on their toes and we'll probably look better in games like Doncaster as it won't be 10 guys that have barely played at all. "Backups" like Grey, Tel, Johnson and Odobert have all started at least 1 game and generally had some involvement so shouldn't be too rusty. Even Danso has had minutes off the bench.

Feels like a marked contrast to pretty much every other manager we've had - almost all had such a clearly defined first 11 and rotation happened almost exclusively against weak teams. Not sure you can get away with that with the expanded European fixture list and sheer number of games.
 
Timberwolf said:
I like the way he's using the squad. Seen some people moaning at why we didn't start Sarr and Xavi vs Brighton but Frank's clearly trying to keep players fresh and not just running the same 11 into the ground.

Sarr had played almost every minute until yesterday and runs non stop. Makes sense to rotate him every now and then. Meanwhile Xavi's still new to the league and adapting. He should start 90% of games moving forward but it makes sense to ease him in a bit.

Just seems like smart squad and load management to me. Keeps players fresh and on their toes and we'll probably look better in games like Doncaster as it won't be 10 guys that have barely played at all. "Backups" like Grey, Tel, Johnson and Odobert have all started at least 1 game and generally had some involvement so shouldn't be too rusty. Even Danso has had minutes off the bench.

Feels like a marked contrast to pretty much every other manager we've had - almost all had such a clearly defined first 11 and rotation happened almost exclusively against weak teams. Not sure you can get away with that with the expanded European fixture list and sheer number of games.
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I’d like to see Porro get a rest, with Spence on as RB.
 
We're almost not noticing but that injury list of Solanke, Kolo Muani, Kulusevski and Maddison... that's serious attacking options, senior players with goals amongst them that Frank needed to do without and we started ok.
 
So many on here have complained that we run players into the ground and not rotate. We rotate and there’s criticism. Managers can’t win. Sarr needed a rest and will do him the world of good. Xavi has came in and played getting used to the pace of the Premiership and having him as an impact sub yesterday probably gave us the draw as he drove us forward and gave us something different in the final third.

Kudus will not start on Wednesday along with Mickey,Vicario,Porro,Bergvall and maybe Romero but I think he might start and come off early.
All will be fresh for Wolves.
 
Really good so far.

I just hope that Frank keeps Xavi centrally from now on.

He's our best and more creative player, and he needs to be central. As soon as we have a proper number 10 playing, we looked so much more fluid, dynamic and creative.

So yeah, please don't put him wide left Frank. You want Xavi central with runners either side of him so he can pick his passes.

Thankfully I have seen Frank's quotes where he talks about Xavi brining in what we expected to see from him in the 10 role so I am hoping the Xavi on the left experiment is over.

Yes our LW options are sub optimal, but the improvement Xavi offers the whole of our attack by being in the 10 position outweighs the inferior options on the left.

If we play Xavi on the left, we stifle him, we stifle the team.
 
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