CountryRoyal Snowball Millsy
Yes yes ageed of course but what's that to do with what we do on the day!?? and my question of why we seemed not to go 4-4-2 much earlier than 88mins? You're saying it's because we weren't expecting a win anyway?
Are you suggesting the reason why we didn't try harder to get a point or three from that game is because most rational people would have expected a defeat so we were just happy with that? The players certainly didn't feel that way as they kept trying so something clearly wasn't communicated if that was the gameplan!
Even a point from a draw would be absolutely critical. So I still don't see a reason Pauno would, at 2-0 down, at this stage of the season where every point is absolutely cricital, not at least try to be a bit more gung ho with Puscas and Joao up front especially after they very effectively blocked our style of play in the second half. Why did it take him until the 88min to go 2 up top.. and with whom, his only option then was flipping Baldock!!!
Talk about locking the door after the horse has bolted!
Don't worry I'm not saying Pauno out at all, but this was just bizarre to me.
Manager basically said they were knackered after giving all from 13-45 minutes
After that, going Gung-Ho might have meant a 5-0 defeat.
A 2-0 defeat is not the end of the world if we can win our three home games
and maybe other teams will still screw up. For one thing, they play each other
Yeah this basically. They ran out of steam and energy. Sure going 2 up top earlier might have changed the game but it also might not have.
Look at how Brentford panned out. We played at such an intensity, still lost and then turned into dogshite for the next month or so.
Ok I can see the logic vaguely so thanks for answering my Q but I smell bullshit and it was wrong call and I question him even more. Thoroughly unimpressed if that's his actual thinking.
- I didn't see the players just giving up, they still gave their all.
- I didn't see Pauno revert to a play it is easy, total defensive attitude for the rest of the game to conserve goal difference. If that was his plan he did it very badly and strangely and is unable to get his game plan across.
- Why then suddenly at 88mins decide no actually we DO want to go 442 and try and get a point. If the gameplay was take it easy, save energy, kill the game why the sudden change at 88mins?
-Going 442 isn't exactly going gung ho is it? It's basically going into a basic normal style of play that's slightly more attacking than 1 up front. If we were to let in a third, ok then we shut up shop if we're worried about GD.
-It's not like we were being totally outplayed and battered. If it was this response would have been reasonable. And we'd actually shut up shop, which we did NOT (see above). Most would agree we made the better chances and were a bit unlucky. We were thoroughly in the game.
-It is beyond ridiculous given the above that we would go for goal difference over and above a point. But as I say at 3-0 down, that's fine. Not at 2-0.
-If going for resting players and settling for a draw (ridiculous for all reasons above but let's go with it) why the flying f**k risk João bringing him on? Either we're resigned to defeat in which case rest the guy and let Baldock dick around up front, or allow Puscas more of a deserved run out.
For the reasons above I'm sorry I just do not buy that BS excuse at all and if that is genuinely what he was going I have serious concerns about his game management ability and logic not least because he was totally ineffective at managing to do it as the players looked a million miles from taking it easy.
I suspect the truth is he was just beaten tactically and had no idea what to do. 2-0 down, ok, but then we could/should have got back into the game as we dominated. Half time and their manager makes changes that totally nullify our threat and we have no plan B, Pauno is completely unable to react. The players still exhaust themselves, work their socks off, we still bring on João in a desperate attempt to try to get something, the penny finally drops at 88mins as they continue to try to push for a point but it's too little too late. 442 much earlier on with Joao and Puscas would have been the obvious choice to shake things up a bit given their manager managed to easily nullify our 2-0 football, but he cocked it up.
I'd have respected "yes in retrospect we should have had 442 with João and Puscas, I made the wrong call". This just sounds like a messy excuse that doesn't add up.
Every point counts! If all we're doing is worrying about goal difference at this stage in the season we have no business even talking about the playoffs and the guy is utterly inept. Is that seriously our philosophy now? A team looking to compete in the Premier League? FFS.
No wonder since our opening honeymoon patch we've been basically shite.
