Sounds about right.
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Sounds about right.
I think he'll get West Ham
All the bookies now have it as a 2 horse race between Frank and Nuno
I'd say Frank needs the win. Nuno needs a draw.
One of them will be gone following that match.
To be devils' advocate, that is easily argued as much as
"This second half crushes any argument that this season comes down to our tactics not being good enough.
They CAN play a lot better than we’ve seen under Frank.
Our style isn’t as good as it should be, but it’s not as awful as some portray it."
The main difference was RKM being central to the play and actually having a decent game. He's not looked interested and has halted a lot of our attacks more recently, but for whatever reason wasn't doing that last night.
I don't think it takes any of the blame or pressure off the players. If you worked with someone lazy and clumsy, but who showed competence for half a day in a month, you'd be looking at them more than the workplace.
They’ll need an interim plan or replacement. That must be the hold up. Any new coach (not interim) will demand signings which our tight owners are probably aware of so will be happy to run down the January window before making any decision.
Who ever loses gets the sack?
First time either set of fans doesn't want to win?
It doesn't
It is clear the tactics, intent and shape we are set out with
This is management, not players
You're probably right.
But it shouldn't fucking matter now. He's not good enough regardless.
I like Mckenna but he'd be eaten alive. A lot of our fans wont care he was once in our youth team, they'll see we've gone for a relatively inexperienced manager of Ipswich that took them down. Our fanbase has been patient for 7 years but its all now too febrile. A few bad results and he'd be under the cosh immediatedly. We need a proper root and branch rebuild and that requires a manager that will hopefully last 3 years, someone that immediately gets the fans onside.
We were never in a relegation scrap last season and we are not in a relegation scrap this season even if we lose the next 2, 3, 4 or 5 games
We will have a new manager if that happens and all he will have to do is get us 3 more wins from a minimum of 12 games to be safe.
Maybe even less if WHU and Forest carry on with their current form which is highly likely.
McKenna no way, too placid a character and totally unproven .
While I think McKenna has great potential, I can tell you that a lot of Ipswich fans are unsure about him after last season. "He's too rigid to adapt his tactics", " he does not pick players on form", " He doesn't know how to get the best from the squad he's got", " He reached his level in the Championship and was found out in the EPL".
Thats a flavour of some commentary on the Tractor Boys Forum. Does any of it sound familiar?
How can you say Mckenna’s football is better than Franks? From when one managed a decent Brentford team and the other a relegated Ipswich team? Let’s have a crack at either Iraola, De Zerbi or Xavi. Please don’t mention Silva.
Mate it's a little bit of everything - and it just compounds. Can't overestimate the cost of this ongoing calamitous injury crisis though. It's now happened under two managers at pretty much the same time of year. It's just impossible to get any continuity going when large chunks of a specific area are missing.
Yet they came out at half time with hot coals under them.
Same manager.
Those first half performances were there under the last manager, and luckily there are extended highlights on you tube if anyone fancies checking it out.
We'll get nowhere pretending 'tactics' is the only reason why vicario is letting in 32% of the shots he's faced
Tactics are dreadful. Free kicks now are not forward but sideways. Wingers often try to beat 2-3 markers and there’s no Spurs player anywhere near enough for them to pass to. Creative Forward passing from deep….not happening amd we say we have n9 player good enough in doing that, how do we know until they try.Romero takes a bloody age to pick out a pass the it’s invariably sideways. Our main problem is poor tactics and that’s down to Frank.
Because he isn't Steven Gerrard, and this is the 2nd manager under, basically, the same group of players already
Yet they came out at half time with hot coals under them.
Same manager.
Those first half performances were there under the last manager, and luckily there are extended highlights on you tube if anyone fancies checking it out.
We'll get nowhere pretending 'tactics' is the only reason why vicario is letting in 32% of the shots he's faced
What does Vicario not being that good have to do with anything? He's not helped by Franks open door policy of allowing shots in front of the box (tactical
) but I don't really see the relevanceWe have now 31 games to draw on, and the vast weight of evidence is that Frank sets us up to the antithesis of what happened in the second half, not that he's aiming for that sort of performance all the time and the players just aren't doing it...
While we're at it we should also be asking why Villas average base salary is higher than ours despite our incoming dwarfing theirs, if we want to wonder how we're underperforming.
A new manager will help, but we're still being run by tightasses