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Post by cousindupree on Sept 24, 2018 17:17:29 GMT
Rowett's favourite...James McClean when he's fit. Now that would be fun. On a serious note Rowett rates him highly and has praised his character, and he will always be the first name on the team sheet.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 24, 2018 7:57:58 GMT
Clearly Rowett and his huge band of coaches don't seem able to organise a defence. I thought Lambert was shit but within a couple of games he organised the defence with only a little help from a random mate from Scotland and at a higher level even a shut out at Liverpool. He's now back having tea and bickies with his mum so why not ditch Davidson and get Lambo in as a defensive coach? It would also appease the many Stokies on here who value animation on the touchline. Rowett could stay admiring his trainers why Lambo does his demented gibbon act on the touchline...
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 24, 2018 7:39:31 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 24, 2018 7:15:46 GMT
Rowett ticks all the boxes as a manager for Coates. In fact I think Coates believes he has found the new Tony Pulis...he might be right we will see. He won't be going anywhere unless we are in deep relegation shit in January, which even though we are a complete shambles on the pitch I think even Rowett can muster enough points to be safe. I can't say Rowett has actually done anything in his time here to convince me he has the managerial ability to get a team promoted from this league and as long as he remains the manager we will stumble along in mid-table. Prepare for a long stay at this level. The only way we will get back to the premier league is by a change of ownership and with it better recruitment, day to day running of the club and a new manager with higher credibility to attract players and a better tactical ability. Coates has achieved all that he wanted as owner...promotion, a cup final and a European adventure, quite a journey. So what's left for him, he's achieved as much as a club of our size could expect? I can't see us ever replicating that period again and I can't see Coates having the drive to achieve it as there is too much wrong with the club, a few better players isn't going to make a huge difference. The chairman, the CEO, the Director of Football and the Manager are all very much 2nd division in terms of their capability. Like many things in life they have found their level and it's where they will stay until major change happens....we will slowly get used once again to life at this level.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 22, 2018 22:18:10 GMT
I'm still not 100% sure what I saw today (besides 79 minutes of embarrassing crap, that part we all take as read), just 99% sure. Option 1: It's just faintly possible the first 79 minutes was about players failing to do it Gary's way, then finally they got the message. Or Option 2: After 79 minutes the players decided fuck this, Rowett doesn't know what he's doing, let's just play some football and give it a go. On the basis it was almost certainly Option 2, it's 1* from me * if you were there please Option 2 Sal was a very astute bit of analysis. I think you were right, there was a short period towards the end when we had 6 players all within a few metres of each other and completely shapeless. They were just frantically charging around! Back to a mark for Rowett....it was going to be 1 for at least hooking Diouf at half time but lost that point and in fact also a whole heap of credibility with his needless and bizarre tirade on Bauer. Always always berate a subordinate behind closed door you tit! So its a big fat 0
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 22, 2018 16:35:51 GMT
Christ almighty that's six, yes six goals conceded at home to 2 teams who were playing league one last season. It's not just the defensive mistakes but the pedestrian tempo to start the game is baffling and allows the opposition to ease themselves into the match. In the first 10 minutes we must have passed the ball along the back and back to Jack 5 or 6 times instead of upping the tempo and getting them on the backfoot. Many on here will continue to blame the players. The simple fact is nearly all of them are playing well below their capabilities and this can only be down to the manager and coaching. He needs to go now while there is still a sliver of hope left for this season.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 22, 2018 16:26:48 GMT
It was a situation for a calm head and someone to take a fucking deep breath! I said to myself anybody but Berahino he just doesn't have the composure. Only Woods seems to have a calm and mature head on his shoulder or maybe Erik. The penalty miss summed up what a shambles the afternoon was presided over by a manager who is clearly floundering and sinking fast.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 22, 2018 12:08:36 GMT
0-0 0-0
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 21, 2018 12:25:24 GMT
His signings have been perhaps the best aspect of Rowett's short time here. Better than his tactical awareness or his game management strategy.
Woods, although early days looks an excellent signing. But we have needed a DM for years. Clucas if ever fit should be a useful utility player and a young replacement for Cameron Ince we all knew he was good at this level but his composure in front of goal is surprisingly poor. Martina Can't say I thought we needed this signing but has done OK. Better than Bauer? Not sure. Afobe top signing and the 15+ goal man we simply had to have to have any chance. Williams A knee jerk reaction to poor defensive displays by Shawcross and BMI. Our defence was woeful last season and needed some youthful upgrade. Should have been a main priority McClean Poor signing on many levels.
So a 6/10 from me. My main gripe is that if Rowett is insistent on sticking with 4-3-3 then to score enough goals and win 25 plus games with that formation you have to have significant goal contributions from midfield...Allen Etebo and Woods might contribute 3 or 4 maximum. Failing that you have to have major contributions from ALL of the front 3. Afobe and Ince, if he manages to put his shooting boots on the correct way around, will deliver but McClean has never been a goalscorer. That's why McClean was a major error and we should have looked for better. Lack of match winners will be our failing this season for sure.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 20, 2018 14:17:57 GMT
Re: Berahino - We don't need him to look good though, we need him to produce... to have end product... to create or score. Its great for him he seems to have got his shit together - that's positive and must have taken some guts. But its a different pt on whether he is an answer to any question worth asking. We all saw that squads in and around the POs need 3 players to score or create 15 goals. Villa have 5 capable of that - Hourihane, Kodje, Abraham, Grealish, and Adomah if they get him back. WBA have 4 in Philips, Barnes, Rodrguez and Gayle. We have only 2 - Ince and Afobe. That pretty much, for me, puts a ceiling on what we can achieve and defines us as a mid table team at best, in a league when many games are 5050 settled by the individuals with the composure and technique to make critical moments pay. In our current squad, the only other hope - long shot - would be to get Bojan going. Fit and on form, he could contribute 15. But he has only played about 15 games a season for the last 5 hasn't he? And produced v little since injury. So long shot indeed. Its going to take this season and another to get a frontline that can challenge it seems. Don't mean to bash Berahino more than he has because he is looking a competent footballer again, but for this mission, at this level.... sorry.... Yep this post is absolutely spot on. To get promoted you need to win 25 games and to do that you need match winners and goalscorers. And it's been pointed out many times if Afobe gets injured we are left with Bera diouf and Crouch up front. It wasn't good enough last season and again it's not good enough even at this level. I have absolutely no idea what Berahino offers. He clearly isn't a goal scorer, lone target man or god forbid a No10 since his time here he has scored one goal and made one assist! Maybe in January the penny will drop and we will bring in extra fire power. Until then if Rowett ever plays 4-4-2 then I hate to say it but Diouf is a better option or Bojan at least they are likely to get chances.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 19, 2018 12:53:42 GMT
He certainly looks like we finally have our Whelan upgrade actually with bells on!. He was getting rave reviews at Shrewsbury and was player of the season at Brentford. The mystery for me is why it took so long for us to sign him, surely Rowett knew all about him but initially went for an injured Clucas. We have needed a Whelan upgrade for what 3/4 years and all the recruitment team have come up with was a lazy arsed signing of a knackered Darren Fletcher. And Coates thinks there is nothing wrong with our recruitment process ffs!
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 19, 2018 12:39:17 GMT
6 No bizarre subs thank god. His style of football isn't easy on the eye and a makeshift Swansea often looked better than us without really threatening. Still a win and we should really have scored more, what is it with our finishing? Thought we had a crack attacking coach?
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 18, 2018 22:52:29 GMT
What was the REAL attendance tonight ? According to the BBC it was 22,078
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 18, 2018 19:23:15 GMT
Great stream cheers mucker. I am watching this on my laptop sitting in my local sports bar in Atlanta....its wall to wall fucking champions league. So thanks Barbarian
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 18, 2018 18:14:03 GMT
No brainer. We were positively purring for 30 mins at the weekend. Repeat, cut out the errors at the back and be more clinical up front and the jobs a good'un! With the same players it's more likely to be a repeat of last saturday. Every game there are defensive mistakes and every game Diouf misses sitters
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 18, 2018 11:44:32 GMT
I hear what people are saying about Clucas, but why the fuck did we buy him, we need / needed players now not some point in the future. This isn't a Rory job or anything and it isn't even as though we got a star player on the cheap as a gamble. I think we did get him on the cheap. You would hope so based on the facts that Swansea didn't want him, he has a long term serious injury and we will not see any return from this investment until next year. Or maybe Swansea grossly paid over the odds for him and ne isn't worth 6m. Odd signing to file alongside McClean and Williams.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 18, 2018 11:39:14 GMT
So which home grown player should be on the bench , and in place of who? That would also mean demoting Edwards of course. Oh you mean the rule no one at the club knew about at Leeds? Anyone instead of Fletcher? Whatever the reasoning the player doesn't have to be made a prick of by being sent to Sunderland to play with the kids on a Tuesday night if it's just a football decision. Rowett again in yesterday's presser said Bauer had asked to play to maintain his fitness. Sadly he will be gone in January.....Bauer not Rowett which is doubly sad
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 17, 2018 14:30:34 GMT
0-0 2-0
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 16, 2018 16:16:51 GMT
Shaq Arnie and Yarm as a front 3 was so close although Hughes probably wouldn't have seen that Arnie was a good no 9. It would have been an amazing roller coaster as all 3 are shite defensively.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 16, 2018 14:36:50 GMT
Genuine question, didn't see game or hear commentary what's the fans view?
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 14, 2018 11:01:47 GMT
It's been obvious for some time that we needed a highly qualified well respected in Europe Director of football to oversee all aspects of our football matters. It's been a scandal that we have relied on organising the football side of the business being managed by a lightweight ex agent and a fucking accountant. Once Hughes had run out of ideas and exhausted his European contacts we struggled in recruitment.Maybe now we are in the champs such a role is not a top priority
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 14, 2018 10:53:26 GMT
More worrying is Rowett's inability (so far) to get a tune out of proven Championship players. I quite like Clucas and agree with your valuation of him. I agree to an extent. But he's bought some shit (McClean) that won't help the player best suited to score us goals in Afobe. I think there's an over burden on the we spent money thing. Money doesn't buy you success. We've signed 3 players that we needed imo, Woods, Afobe and Ince. The rest are much of a muchness to what we had before or worse. I think the recruitment has been poor tbh but that stems from the recruitment team and the ethos of the club. Tend to agree Bayern. 3 decent signings and some bang average.Yet quite a few on here seem happy with our window. There were some transfers done by our competitors that we should have been all over but seemingly weren't interested. This is mostly Rowetts team when Clucas is fit so has nowhere to hide. Still surprised at the poor form of players who did ok last season...thats a concern.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 12, 2018 8:46:31 GMT
0-1 1-3
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 11, 2018 13:39:37 GMT
I spoke to Clucas the other week after training and he said his best position is midfield but happy to play anywhere. I spoke with someone who worked with Clucas at Hull. Apparently he's a great lad and a good professional. He's a good player, very versatile but his best position is as a holding midfielder. When further forward, he lacks the vision and speed of thought in the final third and needs 3 or 4 options before playing a pass and 3 or 4 touches also. The same person actually used Charlie Adam's vision and ability to pick a pass to a single option with limited touches as something that Clucas lacks. He also commented on Charlie's "lack of fitness" rather than lack of ability. He could "do a job" at left and on the left side of midfield but his lack of quality in that key area of the pitch is a problem when in that left sided role. I am pretty sure Clucas has been brought in as a holding midfielder but with the added value of covering a couple of left sided roles. The above description of his skills makes you wonder what the scouts at Swansea were thinking when they saw him as the replacement for Sigurdsson, the sort of muddled thinking you would expect from our recruitment team. Rowett will always favour 2 holding mids so him and Woods will be the first names on the team sheets with Etebo or allen being benched. Rowett doesn't see the need for creativity in midfield solely relying on that coming from the wide players Ince and McClean....which will result in not winning enough games for promotion.
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Sept 7, 2018 14:17:45 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 7, 2018 14:17:45 GMT
Lambert was absolutely shite and clearly didn't know how to win a game and it sealed our relegation. But he did get us organised defensively very quickly and he did it with a coaching staff of just one random mate from Scotland. Here we have Rowett and a team of 6 or is it 7 coaches. It includes a Head of Performance and a Head of TACTICAL INSIGHTS!!! Christ on a bike what the fuck has this bloke been doing? I realise the question was rhetorical, but the answer is supposedly this... trainingground.guru/articles/uncovering-the-work-of-footballs-tactical-analystsCheers for that TA interesting and I am sure the analysis is beneficial. Sadly GR doesn't appear to have benefited much as far as I can see. Perhaps this guy was asleep during the Wigan game.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 7, 2018 13:31:22 GMT
Lambert was absolutely shite and clearly didn't know how to win a game and it sealed our relegation. But he did get us organised defensively very quickly and he did it with a coaching staff of just one random mate from Scotland. Here we have Rowett and a team of 6 or is it 7 coaches. It includes a Head of Performance and a Head of TACTICAL INSIGHTS!!! Christ on a bike what the fuck has this bloke been doing?
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 7, 2018 11:36:44 GMT
For the players we have and the need for goals it's a good option. But can't see GR moving too far from his dumb 433 very often. He says he has flexible tactics but all I have seen is shit and shittier.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 5, 2018 21:00:45 GMT
I have posted this before, Rowett is on the record as saying we have 4 players who can play wide and a fifth if you include Bauer who has played there before and now even a sixth as he has no problems playing our number one striker out wide....seemed he was happy with the options so maybe the pizza ragazzi are not mea culpa on this one.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 5, 2018 18:52:45 GMT
It's doing my head in know. Football or something else. Everlickly we are struggling. To many with Thier minds on other things. Lime light! Aaah the Lime Light in Crewe....great memories fantastic live music venue.Anyone else visit?
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 5, 2018 18:30:57 GMT
Well I hope he is back and playing by 10th November as I would hate for the poppy pantomime to be cancelled. I was looking forward to that more than the footie.
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