I’ve always been backing Bowyer but tonight’s selection and tactics were appalling.
Sky Sports reported that we makes the most changes in the starting lineup. That’s really worrying! I don’t think Bowyer knows his best team this season.
Bowyers solution was to place 1 striker with another striker at half time!
Pains me to say this but I’m really starting to lose patience with him. Appreciate what Bowyer has done and his loyalty and the difficulty he faced but he’s had backing now and not using his players correctly.
Won’t be sad if he gets the sack but if I was Thomas Sangaard I’ll give him a final warning.
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Our squad is way to good to be performing like this... Even with Inniss and Famewo out
Happened around the time of Ipswich.
You can't put all of this down to poor quality of player.
They look void of ideas and rudderless.
If they were giving it a good go and unlucky then fair enough, but this is very very poor.
I feared last season he might hit one of those patches where you can't do anything right and get yourself in a tizz with chopping and changing in desperation.
Didn't really happen last season and he did ok. But it's happening now and it happens to the best of them. Happened to Curbs. Happened to Powell, but they always found a way out. Bowyer is deep into this spell now.
Not sure how long this can continue
When you can't connect two passes together you know you're in trouble. Time again I've seen teams like Lincoln, Crewe, Doncaster, Fleetwood, Accrington, Hull etc passing triangles round us, pressing instantly, making the right runs all the while you have Gilbey recieving the ball with 3 white shirts around him and nowhere to go. I do think the players are partly the problem as they're mostly older journeyman people who probably already fancy themselves as talent while these younger players at the above clubs are proving themselves, but it's the managers job to enthuse the team - and that isn't happening.
I love Lee for everything he's done, but I think it's time to call it a day. If we're below 8th come 4-5 games left and it seems impossible to make playoffs, I'd replace him so the new manager has time to build.
I don't even really completely blame him, I think the last few years has taken so much out of him to help create what we are at the moment, a really negative team.
With Sandgaard, it really feels like there should be so much positivity around the club right now, even the small things like the Valley Match Pass with Minto it really feels like a new dawn for us. But negativity is contagious and Bowyer just seems really out of place in that mood and vibe.
Our current team just doesn't seem well built for a salary cap limitations. Our best player is Aneke and he can't be trusted to play 90 minutes, let alone 2 games in a week. Williams is Williams. Maddison seemed a nice luxury signing, but a luxury signing in an incomplete team with a salary cap is bad management (that is on Gallen as much as Bowyer). We need to have a strong group of about 15 players who can play 38 games+ each, but we have just got so many who don't seem fit for that and need to be constantly rested, or accommodated for.
Bowyer will always be a legend for the last few years, and being at Wembley for the last Sunderland game is by far my best moment following the club but we're a different club now than we were then, and I think we need to bring someone new for that journey to start again with a pretty big overhaul.
I could soon look a complete moron in picking my trust in Sandgaard rather than Bowyer in a few years, but it does feel that way would lead to more success.
I have always had some slight reservations about him even in the 100% support belief I had that he should keep the job, with the little things like how he treats some players like Albie agitating me, but also that side that went up from League One with Bielik, Aribo, Lyle Taylor the further we get away from that season, seem like players who probably could have gone up automatically rather than via the playoffs, that might be for another thread though for that debate.
Bowyer looks tired, maybe last season and the follow summer took it out of him. I love him but he needs something big to turn this around. I don’t think he has it this time.
Another thing worth noting, is if this squad were mapped out player for player and assessed by pundits etc, it probably comes out as one of the best squads in the league.
Those two points ring alarm bells for me, I hate witch hunts and I hate bandwagons. But I’m slowly edging towards the “bowyer out” brigade.
And if it’s gonna happen it’s gotta happen ASAP!
His man management has been appealing this season. His tactics have been just as bad and it would appear, in my opinion, the players aren’t playing for him now and that’s just a recipe for disaster.
The players are some of the best in this division. Play them correctly and we’ll get promoted.
Our players should have done better with the opportunities they had.
I think there’s been a catch 22 circle of too much chop / change, but equally individuals not performing when giving the opportunity, leading to more chop / change. There’s no real partnerships and combinations throughout the team formed that you can clearly see in a settled side like Accrington and MK Dons (who on paper are not better than us).
Injuries have been a massive factor, but also some of the signings are starting to look questionable. Bowyer has to decide on some combinations and hang his hat on them for the next few games. If it turns out not good enough then his position starts to increasingly look untenable imo.
Said it before but the body language is wrong. This happens when a manager outs players in public but not others. Matthews, Morgan, Williams and Bogle outed, yet no criticism for the multiple Gunter errors. Will be interesting to see if he slags Pearce off tonight.
10 points from 10 games with 17 conceded is relegation form. It's pretty obvious he's not getting the best out of them and it almost looks as if some players aren't even trying.
If your Sandgaard watching this from afar every week you'd think what is the big deal about him?
Huge game against Rochdale coming up next for Bowyer.
We can only watch from a distance and have no sway or cant vent at a game or meet our mates and vent after a game over a pint etc....
He's earned a bad spell.... Even if this one is getting a bit long and annoyingly painful at a time when I'm sure many of us could use a lift.
I think the wider context is influencing people's perceptions to some extent.