oldage":31iaeub0 said:No different to posters like you hero worshipping Lowe .Feel free to ignore my posts .Nobby":31iaeub0 said:oldage":31iaeub0 said:It is not rubbish.I am fed up with some fans using every excuse in the book to justify our poor performances.Most fans recognised our defensive frailties last season and their worse fears were confirmed as the season progressed.Lowe who had witnessed the problems decided to concentrate on midfield and strikers rather than the defence and was so prepared in the January transfer window he signed a load of rookies to steady the ship when we were screaming out for experience.Keep the Faith":31iaeub0 said:Drake":31iaeub0 said:He can’t bloody win can he?
If he’d not mentioned his priority was defensive reinforcements he’d be hauled over the coals too.
Too many on here seem desperate to see him (and therefore Argyle) fail now. What a strange world we live in.
Great post and spot on. I’m fed up reading some of the rubbish spouted on here.
Except barely anyone is justifying our poor performances, or our defensive record. The defensive records is objectively indefensible, it is that bad and we all know we've been well below par. What people are justifying is that our run of bad results doesn't mean that Ryan Lowe should be sacked, doesn't mean he isn't good enough, doesn't mean he can't improve and doesn't mean he is to blame for everything that has happened.
If you think you're fed up, maybe take a second to consider how the rest of us feel logging onto PASOTI each day to see yourself and a minority of others just train-wrecking every thread to bash the manager. Even the thread specifically designed to allow us to discuss the positives of RL's efforts this campaign.
This is the problem. You're inferring a polarised opinion that simply doesn't exist by stating that I 'hero worship Lowe'. Just because you are very negative in your attitude towards the manager and some individual players, it doesn't mean that someone who disagrees with you is a 'Lowe-Worshipper'.
I'm well aware that Lowe deserves a portion of the blame for the defensive failings of the team and the recruitment of defenders who aren't good enough. I've criticised his post-match comments in recent weeks and I've criticised the 'groundhog day' performances we've turned out and his inability to address some of these failings. I have literally said the below just a couple weeks ago:
Nobby":31iaeub0 said:As far as I am concerned, the next 4 games mean very little and frankly the results don't really matter (although the players/staff shouldn't be thinking that way). The measure of how purposeful this last quarter of the season has been will be how we start next season. I want to see tangible improvement in the recruitment and more importantly the solidity of the team within the first 10 games next year. Lowe has talked about learning a lot this year, and that's fine, this was never going to be an easy season, particularly in the circumstances, but we need evidence that we are actually learning and that evidence has been lacking throughout this season, so it needs to be rectified this summer and produced next season.
I'm still confident Lowe is taking is in the right direction and that a bit of patience is required, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frustrated at the groundhog day nature of some of the performances this year. I find it hard to point the finger at the manager for individual errors, because he can't kick the ball for them, but too many goals have been conceded by the fundamental inability to defend crosses and leaving too much space in behind the wing backs. That has to be worked on, and it may be as easy as it being a communication issue, or someone taking leadership like Sonny Bradley did, or it may be a case of tactical changes. Our tactical flexibility next year will also be a sign of what Lowe has learnt from this year.
It is possible to accept that the manager is not at fault for every failing the team has.