1. The personal insults towards the players and BM are not acceptable, you are what you are and you play to the best of your ability.
2. Brian has done a lot ot stabilise this club, and has been an incredible servant. What he did was incredible, but, and A BIG BUT, how long is someone allowed to keep a job because of previous reputation, how stagnant or backwards should should let a club go? The time is probably coming for a change. BM has not shown a great deal of ability to learn from what has gone on this season, mistakes being made on Saturday were made earlier in the season.
3. We need someone to feed some tactical nous, whether this be a new assistant to Brian or a new manager I don't know. Our tactics are crap and have been all season. Play two wingers and two DMs, and we get found out. So we play 2 wingers and 3 DMs. We still get passed through and now we can't pass the ball ourselves and the one up front might as well be cleaning his boots. No variation. The wingers did not work, whatever the formation you played. Where's the variation, trying something different? I know we have the sow's ear not the silk purse, but that doesn't mean you have to serve it up as jerk pork week after week. Try something different, **swear word klaxon** Guthrie and Akpan in the middle with Legs shielding the back four, and let the wingers come inside through the middle. It may not work, It may be ridiculous, BUT IT WILL BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND IT WILL CATCH THE OPPOSITION OFF GUARD.
4. There are too many rumours circulating the club about player unrest for it to be nothing. I think some of the players could have handled themselves much better (Hello Danny!!!!
) but I don't think you can just blame them. Sometimes, some of this whole 'he's got a xxxx injury' scenario is just farcical, and some of the team selections seriously were eyebrow vertigo inducing!!! I can understand why some players got peeved.5. Transfers. Appalling, enough said. Whoever you want to blame (BM did he had got who he wanted in the summer) we acquired players in Guthrie and Pog who were wholly unsuited to the way we play (those tactics worked out though huh?) or players for money who were comparatively cack (Gunter). Some of the blame MUST go to BM here. Why get a midfielder who likes to pass, and a forward who likes the ball to feet if you are going hoof??? If these players were going to be brought in the system should have been adjusted accordingly to make the most of their attributes, who knows? Passes and threaded through balls may have got more out of other players.
6. If you play open and expansive football with the players we had you would have been stuffed week in and week out. However, by trying to play a stifling counter attacking game we were still getting beaten week in week out. The manager has to find a way of making the players available into a team that could get the required points total to get to 17th place. 17TH PLACE PEOPLE. I honestly believe we could have done that if BM had not stuck his head in the sand for so long.
7. Team selection. Intertwined with tactics. Poor poor poor too many times this season. Gorkss was played far too long when it should have been Pearce, Mariappa or ideally both. Everyone saw it why didn't Brian? I don't go with the Legs or Jobi bashing but if a player is performing poorly he should be dropped. This has not happened to those two on far too many occasions this season. By continually mantaining faith in them BM has limited the tactical options open to us before games, and changes that could be done during games. This recent Pearce episode is a case in point, dropped for mistakes in a game but others play on no matter their performance.
I really don't want to knock Brian as he seems a nice and lovable chap, and sacking him would feel like kicking the cat. However, he will not resign, I am sure I saw an interview somewhere where he says he tells people never to resign. We are not Wolves. If we keep BM into next season in the current set up then I cannot see us improving at all. The formation and tactics will be the same, the only difference is we will be in games as the opposition will not be so adept at ripping us apart. I am not sure if sacking him is the answer but at this time I cannot see any other way forward.
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8. Paolo Di Canio? No no no, as someone said the other day, whichever side he joins will have a great right wing
. OPen to the idea of Adkins.9. The husband didn't get the Extra Special Bacon as the recent govt report said processed meat is bad for you, so he got Quorn Bacon instead. It costs just as much.
