Regarding MM, he's pretty much in an identical situation to that when he became our manager last season.
He tried playing a fluid system based on passing from the back, realised he didn't have the players to do that and resorted to ugly tactics. Horrible to watch but effective in digging out points (albeit not enough to keep his job).
Here's an interesting post from the Aldershot board:
Playing devils advocate here, and I will admit it sounded awful on the commentary tonight, but I would think that when Mark was bought in he was given one job to do, and that was to get us to safety. After the dire start that we had I don't think there were many people who realistically thought that we could do it. Since he has come in he has stabilised the team and we have been unbeaten in 10 of our last 11 games. We are now 13 points clear of the drop and heading in the right direction up the table. It's not pretty but who wouldn't have taken this after the Wrexham match? I think that once we get to that magic number of points, that will keep guarantee us staying up, the team will be able to play with more freedom and attacking football. But first we need to allow Mark to do his job. Next season will be another matter, a new start and more optimism, something that we can look forward to. We need to keep the support going. It's amazing that despite our home form, we appear to be over our budgeted average attendances so we appear to hitting our target for this season.
I think the Wrexham match was a 5-0 home defeat so he had to change his philosophy and shut up shop, which he did here. Another poster added that the players weren't good enough in possession to play a more expansive game.
Had MM stayed, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be playing this way now, especially if he'd had the backing RM gave PB over the summer. I was sad to see MM leave but his replacement was so awful that we have inadvertently benefited from his departure and allowed us to change the philosophy of how the club is run. Things are looking up and hopefully we'll be in a decent enough position to challenge for the play-offs at least next season.
He tried playing a fluid system based on passing from the back, realised he didn't have the players to do that and resorted to ugly tactics. Horrible to watch but effective in digging out points (albeit not enough to keep his job).
Here's an interesting post from the Aldershot board:
Playing devils advocate here, and I will admit it sounded awful on the commentary tonight, but I would think that when Mark was bought in he was given one job to do, and that was to get us to safety. After the dire start that we had I don't think there were many people who realistically thought that we could do it. Since he has come in he has stabilised the team and we have been unbeaten in 10 of our last 11 games. We are now 13 points clear of the drop and heading in the right direction up the table. It's not pretty but who wouldn't have taken this after the Wrexham match? I think that once we get to that magic number of points, that will keep guarantee us staying up, the team will be able to play with more freedom and attacking football. But first we need to allow Mark to do his job. Next season will be another matter, a new start and more optimism, something that we can look forward to. We need to keep the support going. It's amazing that despite our home form, we appear to be over our budgeted average attendances so we appear to hitting our target for this season.
I think the Wrexham match was a 5-0 home defeat so he had to change his philosophy and shut up shop, which he did here. Another poster added that the players weren't good enough in possession to play a more expansive game.
Had MM stayed, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be playing this way now, especially if he'd had the backing RM gave PB over the summer. I was sad to see MM leave but his replacement was so awful that we have inadvertently benefited from his departure and allowed us to change the philosophy of how the club is run. Things are looking up and hopefully we'll be in a decent enough position to challenge for the play-offs at least next season.
