i cant take you seriously anymore mumford, i really can't.
What you got with a Gunnar was a player who would support the strikers and push forwards into the space between the midfield and the strikeforce.
We haven't had that this season. Only Baker and McShuffty get into goal scoring positions (and now hopefully, Deegan). Bigi sits deep, Clingan sits deep and Connor Thomas hardly gets over the half way line.
I think Saturday was a lack of confidence in what they were doing and a lack of leadership on and off the pitch. I think you are right to raise the questions M&D despite the faith in AT of others. I know you are not advocating AT to go just that he looks at how and why. I do some coaching and the training courses at the FA always point out to coaches that they should look at themselves first if things are going wrong. The feel I get is that AT (understandably) is getting a little lost in the pressure/frustration of the situation.... cant see the wood for the trees.... he needs someone with a lot of management experience to sit down with him and talk it through. The squad is what it is but somehow there are players in it who say talk the talk but dont walk the walk...... mainly senior players and that is where a manager needs to motivate
Bottom line is we need a box to box player. Only Deegan fits the bill.
It's all well and good playing Clingan and Bigi further up the pitch, but I don't believe that is their natural game. Big has a good shot on him? Well so does Clingan. Doesn't motivate him to play higher up the park though does it. It's his natural instinct to sit deeper.
Stu - Gunnar was getting slated last season for his performances. The Gunnar of old we missed but not the one who played last season. Westwood weren't included because he never played towards the end of the season plus my issue is with the football played.
What would you value King, Gunnarson, Turner and Westwood at? 7 million? I doubt the team that we last put out are worth that much combined.
And look at the bench, what options does AT have?
I'm actually not convinced by AT either but how can I judge him as a manger when with this squad. I don't believe any of the managers we've had in the last 11 years or so could do a better job. I mean seriously you can tinker with the system we play, but all you'd really be doing is moving the deckchairs round on the Titanic.
Can't see why you can't see it.
King, Gunnar, (Turner?) and Westwood were a very strong spine. Now we don't have that spine.
And Gunnar was a nuisance to opposition midfielders every game, reducing space, winding them up, forcing mistakes...that kind of thing.
Also Westwood made 1-3 world class game-saving saves every game.
I blame SISU for appointing him in the first place - oops sorry SBID!
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