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Post by pterrier on Oct 4, 2024 18:33:58 GMT 1
Can’t believe how many people think we should stick with Duff, he has done nothing to suggest he has a clue what he’s doing at town. His stubbornness to change is also alarming. Yes, some of our players aren’t great but they’re much better than most of the others at this level but our manager is making us look like the Dog and Duck in comparison to the mighty Northampton town and the like. I’ve never thought anyone can call for a manager’s head without first having some idea as who can come in to replace. Any suggestions? Id rather have worthington and we already have him at the club. There’s a plethora of out of work managers who have achieved more than duff has and as well as that I’m sure we could attract an assistant manager who has been part of a decent coaching set up from a bigger club (like what we did with corberan). It doesn’t have to be a big name, it just needs to be someone who knows what modern, progressive coaching looks like. One name off the top of my head would be martyn pert who is the assistant manager at Ipswich. They’ve had a remarkable few years and play an incredibly positive brand of football. He’s also worked at Manchester United before ispwich. |
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Post by deepc on Oct 4, 2024 18:47:24 GMT 1
The problem is not the manager.
It is a squad that is not up to the job.
Simple as that
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Post by crux on Oct 4, 2024 19:14:33 GMT 1
The problem is not the manager. It is a squad that is not up to the job. Simple as that The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! |
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Post by deepc on Oct 4, 2024 19:47:25 GMT 1
The problem is not the manager. It is a squad that is not up to the job. Simple as that The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! You may have a point re his tactics.But he is working with a group who cannot find a teammate from 10 yards away.A laughable strike force who are permanently in the treatment room and a midfield who are hiding.Pep would not get a tune out of these wasters. By all means change the manager but we will be stuck with same old dross we have had for a couple of years.This will not end until we clear them all out and have a total reset. Unfortunately I have zero confidence in the recruitment team . UTT |
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Post by prestonrues1 on Oct 4, 2024 19:48:53 GMT 1
Confused how anyone can vote 8 when he's had 9 already 😀😀 I’m suprised your suprised a few datm posters who really really don’t have much knowledge on town issues. That’s saying it nicely really . As proven with the poll. 81 votes as it stands of which 8 voted 8. Nearly 10 percent. Flabbergasted!!! And a true indication of how little should be made of views of many on football forums. |
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Post by townarentbest on Oct 4, 2024 21:07:05 GMT 1
The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! You may have a point re his tactics.But he is working with a group who cannot find a teammate from 10 yards away.A laughable strike force who are permanently in the treatment room and a midfield who are hiding.Pep would not get a tune out of these wasters. By all means change the manager but we will be stuck with same old dross we have had for a couple of years.This will not end until we clear them all out and have a total reset. Unfortunately I have zero confidence in the recruitment team . UTT I disagree, Pep definitely could get a tune out of them, just as MD could (and hopefully will), but he HAS to change the approach to cater for the patently obvious weaknesses and if he doesnt do it sharpish then we and he are screwed. The major flaws in our game are down to the way the system is being played...not really much to do with the individual mistakes, which we should expect in players at this level. Adapt the system to enable us to create actual productive attacking possession and crowd the middle of the park a bit more defensively and we've easily got a squad capable of top 6, even with the injuries. All he's got to do is DO IT. Its not that difficult, I don't really know why he seems to have done so little tactically with how we're playing, he's got a massive opportunity to elevate his profile back to being a Championship manager (even WITHOUT getting us promoted), all he has to do is get things more right, with what looks like an easy job, its not as though we're playing really well and just losing and you can't think of what to tweak. |
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Post by Waterloo Terrier on Oct 4, 2024 21:23:57 GMT 1
The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! You may have a point re his tactics.But he is working with a group who cannot find a teammate from 10 yards away.A laughable strike force who are permanently in the treatment room and a midfield who are hiding.Pep would not get a tune out of these wasters. By all means change the manager but we will be stuck with same old dross we have had for a couple of years.This will not end until we clear them all out and have a total reset. Unfortunately I have zero confidence in the recruitment team . UTT I’d have more sympathy with that if Carlos hadn’t got half of the same squad to keep the ball much better and work to a plan that kept us unbeaten for three months. If Duff wants us to pass the ball, they should be able to keep possession much better than we can by now. Steve Bruce’s Blackpool did. |
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Post by htafcdreams on Oct 4, 2024 22:07:16 GMT 1
The problem is not the manager. It is a squad that is not up to the job. Simple as that 100% squad is thin, old, injury prone and weak mentality Injuries has exposed the first 11s weaknesses It’s needing some proper brass spending on some quality, pace and hunger. The clubs strategy under Kevin is this surgical, highly focused, strategic approach of signings due the clubs income is extremely difficult for any football club to do (bearing on totally unrealistic) Then with the limited CV of Cartwright / Edwards in English football with low budget football club - the decision making won’t be at the level it needs to be |
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Post by deepc on Oct 4, 2024 22:10:33 GMT 1
You may have a point re his tactics.But he is working with a group who cannot find a teammate from 10 yards away.A laughable strike force who are permanently in the treatment room and a midfield who are hiding.Pep would not get a tune out of these wasters. By all means change the manager but we will be stuck with same old dross we have had for a couple of years.This will not end until we clear them all out and have a total reset. Unfortunately I have zero confidence in the recruitment team . UTT I’d have more sympathy with that if Carlos hadn’t got half of the same squad to keep the ball much better and work to a plan that kept us unbeaten for three months. If Duff wants us to pass the ball, they should be able to keep possession much better than we can by now. Steve Bruce’s Blackpool did. We are into the third season post Carlos.The remaining players from that team are three years older.Hogg ,Lees and Pearson could not pass a ball back then and time hasn’t made them better.There is Koroma and I can’t think of any others from Carlos’s side who is still around. |
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Post by rougeboy31 on Oct 4, 2024 23:28:04 GMT 1
I’d have more sympathy with that if Carlos hadn’t got half of the same squad to keep the ball much better and work to a plan that kept us unbeaten for three months. If Duff wants us to pass the ball, they should be able to keep possession much better than we can by now. Steve Bruce’s Blackpool did. We are into the third season post Carlos.The remaining players from that team are three years older.Hogg ,Lees and Pearson could not pass a ball back then and time hasn’t made them better.There is Koroma and I can’t think of any others from Carlos’s side who is still around. Sadly there’s a few more, Turton, ruffles, ward, Nicholls. Hard to think of another career where so many people could be so bad for 3 years and still be employed |
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Post by Waterloo Terrier on Oct 5, 2024 0:18:56 GMT 1
We are into the third season post Carlos.The remaining players from that team are three years older.Hogg ,Lees and Pearson could not pass a ball back then and time hasn’t made them better.There is Koroma and I can’t think of any others from Carlos’s side who is still around. Sadly there’s a few more, Turton, ruffles, ward, Nicholls. Hard to think of another career where so many people could be so bad for 3 years and still be employed And they were hardly top players to begin with. Good coaches make players better, which we are seeing little evidence of at the minute |
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Post by goodbet on Oct 5, 2024 0:41:00 GMT 1
Personally I think we need to stick with Michael Duff for a decent period of time. He's come into a club that's just been relegated, having narrowly avoided relegation the season before. The players are scared by constant defeats and struggles. Mentally the squad as a whole is really weak (I do hope we are making use of top quality Sports Psychologists and/or Therapists to aid the players. I think he needs another 2 windows at least to get players in and out and build his own squad. He knows how he wants to play, but at the moment just doesn't have enough of the right type of players to play that way. I think after another couple of windows the squad will contain a lot more players who are totally comfortable and used to playing the way he wants. This season could still be a good one. We're only 3 points off a play off place with 37 games left. So long as we're in touching distance come January, when you get into the business end of the season, then we're in with a shout. DM was very poor and some wanted to give him more windows to turn things around, I doubt we would have seen any improvement based on our transfer record. MD should we dump him now, I doubt it but giving him another two windows with Cartwright in control of who we bring in will not help him or the club. We need a root and branch change of the club from top to bottom and then we may have an idea if he should go or not. |
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Post by townarentbest on Oct 5, 2024 15:51:00 GMT 1
The problem is not the manager. It is a squad that is not up to the job. Simple as that The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! Oh look, Wiles is encouraged to play as an actual midfield player, we don't get over-ran, and we've got players able to support attacking possession and create chances...what a surprise!! Seven games too slow...hopefully those three points help him get the message that you can tweak plenty within a 3-5-2. |
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Post by crux on Oct 5, 2024 16:20:30 GMT 1
The head coach/manager isn't helping with his insistence in playing a bizarre version of 3-5-2. We have one central midfield player within 5 yards of the centre halves, but about 30 yards away from the other 2 midfield players, who are almost holding hands with the wing backs. We also seem to be hitting long balls to and over the two strikers, none of whom have the ability to hold the ball up or any genuine pace to run behind. Apart from that, he's got the tactics spot on! Oh look, Wiles is encouraged to play as an actual midfield player, we don't get over-ran, and we've got players able to support attacking possession and create chances...what a surprise!! Seven games too slow...hopefully those three points help him get the message that you can tweak plenty within a 3-5-2. It was a much better setup of the system today and yet still within the 3-5-2. It helps with the mobility of Kasumu and Hodge in central midfield. |
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