Bolton Shrimper
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He's being paid to be deluded/positive in an untenable position.Phil Brown you are deluded
We all know where the buck stops !!!
He's being paid to be deluded/positive in an untenable position.Phil Brown you are deluded
He's being paid to be deluded/positive in an untenable position.
We all know where the buck stops !!!
In connection to the above....I mentioned on another thread that the players have gone from MM using pre-match and in week videos taken by drones of training and vidoes of the opposition and tactics to deploy to PBs lump it into the channels. PB rarely watched the opposition before playing them last time he was here and nothing changed. The above doesn't come as a surprise. PB relies on old school management...bluster bravado confidence experience. Which is fine if all are available to use. The latter two aren't. Nouble gave us an exhibition on what even just an average athletic big forward can bring to the party. We have nothing that compares with his average ability and athleticism. The guy got villified for missing a header and who can blame him for going elsewhere.Might be a bit early for a contribution from the other side of Essex but I'd be really disappointed with his management of last night for a few reasons but the most glaring error is that he pitched a 5'8" striker up against two CB mountains and asked your team to lob balls up to him. He also admitted that he was surprised Col U's defences weren't trying to play it out from the back but went more directly quickly into midfield/channels - that's negligent as he'd clearly failed to watch the team since Mullins took over as that's a key change he'd made which has led to upturn in results over previous 5 games (Oldham being the exception) and therefore negated (I guess) what he was probably intending but having pace and energy up front to close down the defence whilst they tried to play out.
To be entirely honest Col U played poorly (especially in the first half) but we got away with it because your tactics were just wrong and (I suspect) based on what Brown thought we did (or used to do). I'm surprised your players are copping so much stick when it seems pretty obvious to me that they were set up wrongly and asked to do the wrong things.
Apologies if my analysis is too soon or unwelcome but just found it so odd that Brown has seemingly been given largely a free pass on last night
Might be a bit early for a contribution from the other side of Essex but I'd be really disappointed with his management of last night for a few reasons but the most glaring error is that he pitched a 5'8" striker up against two CB mountains and asked your team to lob balls up to him. He also admitted that he was surprised Col U's defences weren't trying to play it out from the back but went more directly quickly into midfield/channels - that's negligent as he'd clearly failed to watch the team since Mullins took over as that's a key change he'd made which has led to upturn in results over previous 5 games (Oldham being the exception) and therefore negated (I guess) what he was probably intending but having pace and energy up front to close down the defence whilst they tried to play out.
To be entirely honest Col U played poorly (especially in the first half) but we got away with it because your tactics were just wrong and (I suspect) based on what Brown thought we did (or used to do). I'm surprised your players are copping so much stick when it seems pretty obvious to me that they were set up wrongly and asked to do the wrong things.
Apologies if my analysis is too soon or unwelcome but just found it so odd that Brown has seemingly been given largely a free pass on last night
In fairness, he was almost certainly there primarily to scout out Exeter who were our next opponents. Barrow being an added bonus we are playing them later in the season.He made a big thing about driving a 650 mile round trip to watch Barrow
That analysis looks spot on - I've said elsewhere it was the most tactically incoherent performance since Mohsni was asked to play centre-mid at Wembley - other than the bit about Brown not watching you. He made a big thing about driving a 650 mile round trip to watch Barrow. Surely even a chancer like him wouldn't have neglected preparing for the biggest match of the season?
Could watch on ifollow though?Barrow were playing Exeter so he killed two birds with one stone.
Last night would have been too soon and I think you’re being kind suggesting you were poor. We’ve seen a lot of poor sides this year and scratched our heads wondering how they’re doing well in the table, I personally thought you outplayed us in every area on top of us setting up so woefully.Might be a bit early for a contribution from the other side of Essex but I'd be really disappointed with his management of last night for a few reasons but the most glaring error is that he pitched a 5'8" striker up against two CB mountains and asked your team to lob balls up to him. He also admitted that he was surprised Col U's defences weren't trying to play it out from the back but went more directly quickly into midfield/channels - that's negligent as he'd clearly failed to watch the team since Mullins took over as that's a key change he'd made which has led to upturn in results over previous 5 games (Oldham being the exception) and therefore negated (I guess) what he was probably intending but having pace and energy up front to close down the defence whilst they tried to play out.
To be entirely honest Col U played poorly (especially in the first half) but we got away with it because your tactics were just wrong and (I suspect) based on what Brown thought we did (or used to do). I'm surprised your players are copping so much stick when it seems pretty obvious to me that they were set up wrongly and asked to do the wrong things.
Apologies if my analysis is too soon or unwelcome but just found it so odd that Brown has seemingly been given largely a free pass on last night
To be fair nowone has the chance to run as we rarely shoot.The first goal last night came about because their player followed the original shot in case the keeper mishandled it which of course he did. Our guys never do that we have nobody with a goal poachers instinct. Maybe just once this season when ANG scored at Harrogate.
No no he should just give up. Raise the white flag. No wonder we are where we are. This thread hasn’t aged well. We may not have a great chance but it one believing in and if the manager doesn’t the players sure as hell won’tI know I shouldn't but after today there's a small glimmer of hope inside me thinking Brown might be right, I'm very tempted to watch Barrow's march Tuesday.