Is there anyone on here who is in full agreement with the manager's tactical decisions yesterday?
Before someone says it: no, you won't get comments such as these when we are winning, because there is no need for them, but when we get performances like yesterday's, of course people are going to bring this topic up again. These comments are my possibly futile attempt to try to get things to improve. I feel entitled to make them because, at the end of the day, I am a customer, and what I am paying to see is not always up to much. Over 7000 people paid over £100,000 to watch yesterday's display, and they are entitled to feel peed off if that is how they feel. I live a long way away, so don't get to many home matches, but the last home game I went to (Morecambe) cost me over a hundred quid, and it was dire. I shall go to Dagenham and it will cost me about seventy quid.
My specific questions about yesterday would be:
Why was Cox started in place of Lee, and ahead of Norburn? Surely a defensive strategy from the outset. As proven.
Why was Blizzard brought on, again ahead of Norburn? Hardly an attacking strategy. When does Norburn in fact get a game at all, if not today?
Why was Mellor put on as a striker ahead of Harvey, or indeed why not put Nelson up front? An incomprehensible move. As proven when Mellor fluffed a great chance.
Why did he put on all three subs at the same time? As proven when we lost Mellor for five minutes injured.
Why bring on subs ten minutes after they scored, and only give them thirteen minutes on the pitch?
Such baffling decisions on the manager's part are the reason why many on here think he is quite probably not tactically up to the job. There is a consistent pattern of bewildering decisions taking place, this is not just a one-off occurrence. One win in two seasons after going behind, does say an awful lot. He occasionally manages to get the team playing well, but then presides over it going to pieces, just at the wrong moments, and usually in front of a decent crowd.
Leaving aside such comments as "Who else are we going to get?" or "It's the best season we've had in years", is such a view of the manager's performances unreasonable, based on what we often see taking place?
Before someone says it: no, you won't get comments such as these when we are winning, because there is no need for them, but when we get performances like yesterday's, of course people are going to bring this topic up again. These comments are my possibly futile attempt to try to get things to improve. I feel entitled to make them because, at the end of the day, I am a customer, and what I am paying to see is not always up to much. Over 7000 people paid over £100,000 to watch yesterday's display, and they are entitled to feel peed off if that is how they feel. I live a long way away, so don't get to many home matches, but the last home game I went to (Morecambe) cost me over a hundred quid, and it was dire. I shall go to Dagenham and it will cost me about seventy quid.
My specific questions about yesterday would be:
Why was Cox started in place of Lee, and ahead of Norburn? Surely a defensive strategy from the outset. As proven.
Why was Blizzard brought on, again ahead of Norburn? Hardly an attacking strategy. When does Norburn in fact get a game at all, if not today?
Why was Mellor put on as a striker ahead of Harvey, or indeed why not put Nelson up front? An incomprehensible move. As proven when Mellor fluffed a great chance.
Why did he put on all three subs at the same time? As proven when we lost Mellor for five minutes injured.
Why bring on subs ten minutes after they scored, and only give them thirteen minutes on the pitch?
Such baffling decisions on the manager's part are the reason why many on here think he is quite probably not tactically up to the job. There is a consistent pattern of bewildering decisions taking place, this is not just a one-off occurrence. One win in two seasons after going behind, does say an awful lot. He occasionally manages to get the team playing well, but then presides over it going to pieces, just at the wrong moments, and usually in front of a decent crowd.
Leaving aside such comments as "Who else are we going to get?" or "It's the best season we've had in years", is such a view of the manager's performances unreasonable, based on what we often see taking place?