Define much worse than relegation.
Not only getting relegated, coming bottom, less points, being relegated weeks before we did, knowing there was no chance of surviving. Had we beat Brizzle and Peterborough, I reckon we would've beat Donny and stayed up. Of course we didn't but we were close to staying up. Story of our season; we didn't win when we should have.
We were effectively relegated after the first 23 games.
We finished 8 points adrift, it is not even close.
As I have said, you can tell us how wrong we were when he gets hired elsewhere and is able to unleash his talent properly, we obviously held him back too much. Seeing as you hold him in such high regard as a manager, he won't be out of a job for too long. I suspect there are clubs now contemplating brining him in.
8 points adrist suggests we were safely relegated but, we were v close to survival and had we beaten Brizzle, there would've been a great chance of staying up, we lost (as we all know) and our form declined rapidly as we were relegated when we lost to brizzle, which MAY have cocked up our form. As I believe had we had a good easter weekend, we would've beaten (or not lost atleast) to Millwall and Donny, if it went to the last day, we MAY have nicked a draw, possibly a win had we played a full team with a chance of surivival, we didn't, we got sacked...
The stats you're quoting are rather misleading in a sense, as it doesn't show how close we were at the latter end of our season (pre-p'borough + brizzle away).
At the end of the day we still finished 8 points adrift and we well relegated, you really are clutching at straws.
I respect your opinion that you rate him so much as a manager and I look forward to you proving me wrong.
4-4-2 doesn't work in football. Yes you get width, but you also get outnumbered in the middle.
4-3-3 works best IMO. The have width but 3 in midfield.
Sometimes teams even attack with one formation and defend with another. Oooohh progressive.
Yes he is. Shaw does not have the title manager - he is a caretaker.
Doesnt matter what formation a team plays if the players in it can not master the basics, concentrate or compete for 90 minutes plus added on time. Players win or lose games when you get it down to real basics........ managers can influence it ........ formations only provide a framework.
Our problem this season has been the under performance of big chunks of the team at any one time. Yes they have periods where they play well but that is more than out weighed by the periods they do not. The formations used may or may not suit but thats academic if the players fail to do basic simple things on the pitch.
To be fair MMM, caretaker statistics would be ignored anyway and not unreasonably so.
I don't disagree with you dear chap; however, I equally think that Grenduffy would be happily including Shaw's stats should then have compared favorably to Thorn's don't you think?
If we'd have won three league games on the bounce under Shaw, I somehow thing Grenduffy would have such stats the subject of a facial tattoo to piss on Thorn's chips
No I wouldn't - 3 games is no measure to compare anyone against and everyone deserves a fair chance.
I don't disagree with you dear chap; however, I equally think that Grenduffy would be happily including Shaw's stats should then have compared favorably to Thorn's don't you think?
If we'd have won three league games on the bounce under Shaw, I somehow thing Grenduffy would have such stats the subject of a facial tattoo to piss on Thorn's chips
5-3-2 got to be worth a shot just to stop leaking goals
For a team hoping for promotion? No! Too many people here just suggest random formations for us to play.
For our team, diamond, 4-3-3*, 4-2-3-1*, 4-5-1* should be the only formations under consideration.
*we need atleast 1 more winger for this to work well.
To the 4-4-2 lovers, get over 4-4-2, it's out-of-date, doesn't suit us and we don't to need to follow the trend, we can be revolutionary!
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