Pressley Interview (2 Viewers)

[KG7]

How many good decisions that he has made can you think of? Can think of many bad ones he has made.

How many good and truthful statements has he made? Would say that the majority of them are different to what we see in the game.

You seem to think that we will survive this season. Where do you think that the points will come from? The teams at the bottom are gaining points. We are in the bottom 4 in 21st place. 23rd place is 1 point away with a better GD. 19th place is 5 points away. How much longer are you going to have faith in SP? Our squad isn't a bottom 4 one. It isn't a relegation one. I blame SISU for most of our problems. But not this one. Their fault was for giving SP a contract he did nothing to deserve. Maybe they thought they would sell him like they did MR.

So we can't afford to get rid of SP? To me we can't afford to keep him. We are heading for Division 4 FFS. The level that a club from a small town looks to escape. One step away from losing our league status. Our support is falling away. This costs our club a lot more than a bit of compo. It could even signal the end of our club if it continues.

We can't blame everything on SP. There are many people and institutes that are to blame for the position we find ourselves in. But he has much better than a relegation squad under him.

Good decisions - let's take yesterday...

- bringing Stokes in and playing him at left back
- playing Barton and fleck in midfield
- pushing our play twenty yards up the pitch rather than have us pass the ball across our own box
- giving fleck and O'Brien license to run forward with the ball
- dropping tudgay deep and telling Samuel to sit on the last man
- pushing Phillips on when United went down to ten men
- selecting Pennington and martin as centre backs (they were extremely solid until Pennington had a moment of panic)
- taking Barton off when he was booked.
- putting Haynes on when stokes got injured
- taking williams off when he was booked / ineffective (I thought this was a good decision at the time, but perhaps this wasn't with hindsight)

accurate statements
- I think everything he said yesterday was honest and accurate.

I don't think we are playing like a bottom four side, we are conceding goals and missing chances like a bottom four side. I can't see how a change of manager would change these two things. We created endless chances yesterday and looked totally solid all game - that's as good as you can do as a manager. You can't predict lapses of concentration (although if he had switched Pennington from centre back and brought Webster on he would have been ripped apart for that too on here).

i think we have a decent run of games after MK Dons and we will pick up enough points to get ourselves out of it. Although I would like to see someone else have a go at centre forward - although Samuel got two good goals, he didn't hold the ball up very well.

 

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[stupot07]

Good decisions - let's take yesterday...

- bringing Stokes in and playing him at left back
- playing Barton and fleck in midfield
- pushing our play twenty yards up the pitch rather than have us pass the ball across our own box
- giving fleck and O'Brien license to run forward with the ball
- dropping tudgay deep and telling Samuel to sit on the last man
- pushing Phillips on when United went down to ten men
- selecting Pennington and martin as centre backs (they were extremely solid until Pennington had a moment of panic)
- taking Barton off when he was booked.
- putting Haynes on when stokes got injured
- taking williams off when he was booked / ineffective (I thought this was a good decision at the time, but perhaps this wasn't with hindsight)

accurate statements
- I think everything he said yesterday was honest and accurate.

I don't think we are playing like a bottom four side, we are conceding goals and missing chances like a bottom four side. I can't see how a change of manager would change these two things. We created endless chances yesterday and looked totally solid all game - that's as good as you can do as a manager. You can't predict lapses of concentration (although if he had switched Pennington from centre back and brought Webster on he would have been ripped apart for that too on here).

i think we have a decent run of games after MK Dons and we will pick up enough points to get ourselves out of it. Although I would like to see someone else have a go at centre forward - although Samuel got two good goals, he didn't hold the ball up very well.

But isn't it difficult to judge some of those decisions as we played for 70+ mins against 10 men.

We have no idea whether martin and Pennington would have been solid 90 mins against 11 men, or whether barton and fleck in midfield was good thing (it was poor against Scunthorpe).

Barton was took off through injury not because he was booked.

Haynes for injured stokes was just a straight swap, I wouldn't call it a good decision.


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