Morning Nigel, Trust you slept well. Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon period, because it is now well and truly over. On Saturday we were comprehensively outplayed by a side that will probably struggle to finish top half. We had one effort on target. ONE. The football is dogshit. The players appear to lack belief and organisation. You accused the players of not following your instructions. Think about that. It is not clear to me what the tactics and gameplan is, but you insist it is not hoofball to Stockley. And yet that is de facto what we are seeing. We go again is the most boring and meaningless cliche. Something better change. Now. You are on the verge of losing the fans. Enjoy your breakfast.
A tough run of fixtures coming up too. The next 4 games could define our season & maybe even Nigel's future (although it's probably too early to say that)
I had really high hopes for this season. I'm so disappointed
The last two years xG has done a better job predicting our eventually finish than our early record. Let’s hope it works again. Right now no other club in L1 is underperforming xG more than us. Hopefully Nigel turns it around.
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
I am still not convinced we are stronger than last season, still to be proved in my opinion and of course we have not replaced the 15 goal striker we sold.
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
Confused me too. Perhaps the players who have left were the difference between then and now? I think the lack of a pre-season for the full squad, plus international absences and injuries have conspired to continue the poor run of form. Crewe was not representative of the current collective ability of the squad...
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
Two words: Alex Gilbey
And/or Jake Forster-Caskey I suppose. Still I guess it means that we weren't as reliant on Stockley as we thought we were!
According to the BBC, when we beat Hull on the final day of the season, we played 442 with Morgan and Watson in midfield, Millar on the left and Gilbey on the right of midfield, with Stockley and Washington up front, and Maatsen LB. I still think that sort of Curbs/Powell set up, with only one actual winger works well.
The bit that is confusing me is that the same manager played the same system last season (the part he was in charge for at least) and got much better results and performances with a weaker squad.
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
I am still not convinced we are stronger than last season, still to be proved in my opinion and of course we have not replaced the 15 goal striker we sold.
I'm not sure a crack team of Mr Motivator with Tony Robbins as his assistant could get a tune out of the absolute wastemen we've brought in over the past few years. But we may as well try.
Think a lot of people were underwhelmed when his name got mentioned
Only when he got confirmed, a lot of us decided to just get behind him
I said I didn’t want him, and that applied to similar managerial merry-go-round appointments.
He came in and after reading more about his career it seemed a positive appointment. He had bad owners at Hull and limited resources at Reading, while Sheff Utd took years to find the right manager. His personality seemed to fit with TS.
What’s been so disappointing this season is there’s no sign of a style of play. It doesn’t look like it’ll click into place, we’re just not good enough across every aspect of our game.
It looks like he’s relying on good footballers working it out themselves. Makes me think that’s really what he did at Southampton, great achievement but with some players who went on to do well in the Prem. His comment about never telling Kirk how he should play adds to that idea.
Think a lot of people were underwhelmed when his name got mentioned
Only when he got confirmed, a lot of us decided to just get behind him
I said I didn’t want him, and that applied to similar managerial merry-go-round appointments.
He came in and after reading more about his career it seemed a positive appointment. He had bad owners at Hull and limited resources at Reading, while Sheff Utd took years to find the right manager. His personality seemed to fit with TS.
What’s been so disappointing this season is there’s no sign of a style of play. It doesn’t look like it’ll click into place, we’re just not good enough across every aspect of our game.
It looks like he’s relying on good footballers working it out themselves. Makes me think that’s really what he did at Southampton, great achievement but with some players who went on to do well in the Prem. His comment about never telling Kirk how he should play adds to that idea.
I agree with all the above. I have a problem with a manager not telling signings how to play.
"Just keep doing what you're doing" doesn't work. But I think that's probably oversimplification from Kirk.
When I opened up this thread today I was looking forward to the latest "everything in the garden is rosey" video...well that didn't happen did it, so, how's the train journey this morning Nige, come on we are all here, looking forward to Gillingham tomorrow are we!!.....
Thought i'd bump this one again for the sheer hell of it.....I was just was wondering if Nige has any winter wear, or if he really does only go out when the sun is shinning and the birds are singing ..things are staring to show small shoots of improvement on the pitch, so get ya coat on Nige, we all miss you really..
A classy response from a decent human being. It didn't work out and he has to take some responsibility for that. The one thing that he never sought to do is to blame or even infer others might take some responsibility for our woeful start to the season too. From those responsible for the recruitment through to the players themselves.
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Trust you slept well.
Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon period, because it is now well and truly over.
On Saturday we were comprehensively outplayed by a side that will probably struggle to finish top half.
We had one effort on target. ONE.
The football is dogshit.
The players appear to lack belief and organisation.
You accused the players of not following your instructions. Think about that.
It is not clear to me what the tactics and gameplan is, but you insist it is not hoofball to Stockley.
And yet that is de facto what we are seeing.
We go again is the most boring and meaningless cliche.
Something better change. Now.
You are on the verge of losing the fans.
Enjoy your breakfast.
I had really high hopes for this season. I'm so disappointed
I'm glad that he's acknowledging that things really do need to change but as much as I like him on a personal level I do start to wonder what he's going to do to turn it around.
Perhaps the players who have left were the difference between then and now?
I think the lack of a pre-season for the full squad, plus international absences and injuries have conspired to continue the poor run of form.
Crewe was not representative of the current collective ability of the squad...
Plus we're missing Gilbey, JFC, Maatsen and/or Purrington, Aneke off the bench, and for certain games Darren Pratley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56960305
According to the BBC, when we beat Hull on the final day of the season, we played 442 with Morgan and Watson in midfield, Millar on the left and Gilbey on the right of midfield, with Stockley and Washington up front, and Maatsen LB. I still think that sort of Curbs/Powell set up, with only one actual winger works well.
Only when he got confirmed, a lot of us decided to just get behind him
Something isn't right this season, that's clear but I don't think Adkins is the main issue.
He came in and after reading more about his career it seemed a positive appointment. He had bad owners at Hull and limited resources at Reading, while Sheff Utd took years to find the right manager. His personality seemed to fit with TS.
What’s been so disappointing this season is there’s no sign of a style of play. It doesn’t look like it’ll click into place, we’re just not good enough across every aspect of our game.
It looks like he’s relying on good footballers working it out themselves. Makes me think that’s really what he did at Southampton, great achievement but with some players who went on to do well in the Prem. His comment about never telling Kirk how he should play adds to that idea.
"Just keep doing what you're doing" doesn't work. But I think that's probably oversimplification from Kirk.
Robinson wasn't nearly as bad as he's made out, he was just very inflexible.