The worst tactician I've ever seen manage us, and I include Carl Fletcher in that. Looking at the jobs he's had since, sure he did ok at Newport, Fleetwood and Carlisle (firefighting roles - all that he's good at), but was horrendous at Notts County, Chesterfield, Wigan and (now) Swindon. His lack of tactical know-how and downright refusal to use any sort of analysis will mean that he'll continue to be nothing more than a firefighter. Or perhaps a chief scout, because (as others have said) he was capable of signing some bloody good players. And then making them underperform.
I couldn't care less what he was like in terms of "getting" the area, referring to us as Plymouth, whatever. Its not important. What is important is how he set us up tactically and motivationally - obviously we can only guess at the latter, but from what we could see on the pitch, tactically, we were appalling - bailed out by those players so often. We never ever looked like a team - only merely a talented group of individuals.
Did very well to keep us up in 2013 (not as well as Fletcher did the year before, but still, did well). Then spent 2 years assembling a bunch of bloody good players and underachieved with them.
Tin hat very much on, but if you'd given Carl Fletcher that squad of quality players (McCormick, Nelson, Hartley, McHugh, O'Connor, Bobby Reid, Reuben Reid) we would have finished higher than 7th. Obviously Fletcher's main problem that he signed players that were mostly absolute garbage. But tactically, he was better (less bad) than Sheridan.
I couldn't care less what he was like in terms of "getting" the area, referring to us as Plymouth, whatever. Its not important. What is important is how he set us up tactically and motivationally - obviously we can only guess at the latter, but from what we could see on the pitch, tactically, we were appalling - bailed out by those players so often. We never ever looked like a team - only merely a talented group of individuals.
Did very well to keep us up in 2013 (not as well as Fletcher did the year before, but still, did well). Then spent 2 years assembling a bunch of bloody good players and underachieved with them.
Tin hat very much on, but if you'd given Carl Fletcher that squad of quality players (McCormick, Nelson, Hartley, McHugh, O'Connor, Bobby Reid, Reuben Reid) we would have finished higher than 7th. Obviously Fletcher's main problem that he signed players that were mostly absolute garbage. But tactically, he was better (less bad) than Sheridan.
