YorkshireRoyal99Snowflake Royal It may be a controvertial opinion, and I'm not saying sacking him was the wrong call at all, but in retrospect I think Ince would have done a better job in L1 than Selles under the same circumstances. Even though he was very poor in the Champ and ignored and belittled our youth.
No in fairness I can see the logic in that to a degree. I think Ince worked with what he did last season. I don't think he necessarily wanted to play the way he did last season, I think it was the situation and the players around him that forced his hand a bit.
Ok, not a great deal more flexibility this season, but if he could have built on the foundations we wanted to set and showed at the start of last season, maybe he could have pulled in a couple of battle-hardened, experience pros for the spine of the team for example, then we maybe could have done a bit better.
It depends if he'd have trusted a couple of the academy/young players this season. Of course we are talking hypothetically, so who knows where we would have been under Ince. We could have still been 23rd and not using them as per last season.
His attitude was that the Academy players weren’t good enough, we weren't able to play football and compete with the same skill as other teams in the division and he had experienced alternatives.
I'd hope he'd have recognised that in a lower league our young players very much do have the skill and ability. And that he's the sort of nasty pcunt who would have helped them develop the nous and physical side of their game to cope.
I could certainly see him going with a solid backline and some midfield destroyers, and then the more flakey pace and skill upfront.
I think we'd have been less open under him than Selles.
End of the day he was still shit, deserved sacking and its only speculation. Maybe we'd be hovering just above the zone and similarly discontented.