Pressley in at Fleetwood!! (5 Viewers)
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Philosoraptor
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Interesting article.
""At Falkirk I had to reduce the playing budget by close to 75% in three years. At Coventry we reduced the playing budget by 60% in two years - that was four years work that we put into two. "
"I'm very proud of the work that we did but my next job has got to be one where I'm not asked to tidy a club up."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34396177
""At Falkirk I had to reduce the playing budget by close to 75% in three years. At Coventry we reduced the playing budget by 60% in two years - that was four years work that we put into two. "
"I'm very proud of the work that we did but my next job has got to be one where I'm not asked to tidy a club up."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34396177
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letsallsingtogether
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So how much did all those players cost.
I am not arguing about the home record, what with the 10 point deduction as well he did a good job.
I am saying that he had it harder then any other City manager due to the circumstances.
You were one of those on here cooing and saying we should all go to watch this good football, but you were also one of the first with the knife at his back........ Say no more.
chinamans view
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Good luck to him , we should not hold any grudge against him, he had the club at heart but lost the plot after Clarke left.
Had no help from above also.
Had no help from above also.
ccfctommy
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Posted this on a different football forum today...
I give him credit for the season we had at Sixfields. We had a small squad, no money and started on minus ten points. Games were played in front of crowds sub 2000 people. He bought Callum Wilson through from the youth team, and him and Leon Clarke terrorised League One. He played high tempo, pressing football which worked and was talking about 'the way we play off the ball'. Everyone predicted we'd be relegated aswell.
Then there was last season. He made his own signings, but fell out with others. We changed to a 3-5-2 and played wing backs. Got rid of a decent LB in Blair Adams. Returned to the Ricoh and beat Gillingham in front of 32k people. Long story short. He complained about other teams loaning players whilst we must have wen't through at least ten last season. Got beat at home to Worcester. Played some of the most turgid, crap, boring football that I have ever seen at the Ricoh. Total opposite from Sixfields.
There may be a good manager in there somewhere, but I was delighted when he was sacked from CCFC.
I give him credit for the season we had at Sixfields. We had a small squad, no money and started on minus ten points. Games were played in front of crowds sub 2000 people. He bought Callum Wilson through from the youth team, and him and Leon Clarke terrorised League One. He played high tempo, pressing football which worked and was talking about 'the way we play off the ball'. Everyone predicted we'd be relegated aswell.
Then there was last season. He made his own signings, but fell out with others. We changed to a 3-5-2 and played wing backs. Got rid of a decent LB in Blair Adams. Returned to the Ricoh and beat Gillingham in front of 32k people. Long story short. He complained about other teams loaning players whilst we must have wen't through at least ten last season. Got beat at home to Worcester. Played some of the most turgid, crap, boring football that I have ever seen at the Ricoh. Total opposite from Sixfields.
There may be a good manager in there somewhere, but I was delighted when he was sacked from CCFC.
skybluepm2
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Interesting article indeed, he also adds a drop of humour in there from time to time;
"I have built up a very good reputation in England and I have a burning desire to manage at the elite level," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"That's not an arrogance. That's a belief. In order to do that, I think you have to manage in a country like England.
"I think the right opportunity will arise for me here over the next coming months."
Well it wasn't months he had to wait, just a matter of days. The promised land of Fleetwood Town awaits! I'm personally intrigued to see how he gets on there on an even keel, but my gut wrenching feeling is that he will take them down and that he is generally an abysmal manager.
Got my tickets for the game and he will get a polite applause from me as opposed to a barrage of abuse.
ccfctommy
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Did you watch any of last season?
letsallsingtogether
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Yes but like has been mensioned before lost his best players.
Do yo expect us to keep playing the way we are now if we lose or current best players?
SkyBlue_Bear83
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I'd have faith in Mowbray to replace them, never had the same faith in Pressley.
This team now is largely a team Mowbray has built over preseason, Pressley inherited his team and had no idea how to rebuild.
letsallsingtogether
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I hope you are right or the same posters will be back on here again wanting his head.
junglej13
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Pressleys main recruitment took place last summer. Attracting players to play at Sixfields in front of 1500 people would have been extremely difficult. His use of the loan market was pretty horrendous but the club had next to no scouts in place. Towards the end he did pick up Pennington and Samuel on loan but I still wouldnt trust him too much in the transfer market.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Its no surprise one of the first thing Mowbray does was bring in a trusted friend to sort out the scouting
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Gazolba
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The problem with Pressley was he lived in an alternate reality where poor players were considered rock-solid, where good players were discarded as useless, where poor performances were praised instead of criticized, where tactics that didn't work were persisted week after week after week, where a single striker at home was the preferred tactic and where not a single shot on goal in 90 minutes was considered perfectly acceptable.
Captain Dart
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That wasn't home.
Captain Dart
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Is he claiming Mowbray's budget is bigger than the one SP had? If it isn't lets judge at season end who is better manager.
Otis
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I'm very much hoping he signs the ever so talented, top international, rock solid Andy Webster in time for Saturday.
JulianDarbyFTW
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My belief is that Pressley didn't like the unpredictable players. People with the League One equivalent of the X factor, the people who could skin a man and rattle one from 20-yards one minute then trip over their laces the next. He preferred the Steady Eddies, solid and unspectacular. Except it's League One. So they weren't that solid. But they were incredibly unspectacular.
The difference with TM is that he accepts the risk, which is why he has Kent and Murphy and Lameiras, who can blow hot and cold and back again in the space of 5 minutes. This level of football just needs a couple of moments of magic to win a game.
When we talk about the players we lost / moved on - Baker, Wilson, Clarke, Moussa - they were the type who had that something extra. He didn't try and replace them like-for-like, he just went after the players who would give a 6 / 10 performance every week. Imho, Pressley won't be a top manager unless he learns that trying to grind out wins with bang average players just isn't going to work on a regular basis.
The difference with TM is that he accepts the risk, which is why he has Kent and Murphy and Lameiras, who can blow hot and cold and back again in the space of 5 minutes. This level of football just needs a couple of moments of magic to win a game.
When we talk about the players we lost / moved on - Baker, Wilson, Clarke, Moussa - they were the type who had that something extra. He didn't try and replace them like-for-like, he just went after the players who would give a 6 / 10 performance every week. Imho, Pressley won't be a top manager unless he learns that trying to grind out wins with bang average players just isn't going to work on a regular basis.
skybluetony176
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He could only do that because he has complete control of the budget. A luxury SP didn't have.
covcity4life
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and most probably didnt ask for
SP like all the many manager sbefore him tried to make it work with sisu
mowbray told sisu my way or the highway and thank god they listened
Grendel
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In an interview this morning he said his time away from football has been "terrific"
The truth is that Pressley had a good time in season one. He benefited from Sixfields due to having less scrutiny. He had a strong inherited set of players. The ones he signed, notably in defence were poor. Clarke Wilson and Moussa did carry him.
Tactically he was and remained poor. His interview style opened him up for ridicule and his man management of players often seemed unprofessional and inadequate.
Bottom line - he didn't deliver and ran out of the few ideas he had. He failed and all this bleeding heart approach from some posters misses the point.
Football managers benefit from the sack. Pressley gets paid off for failing to fulfil his brief and then gets paid again elsewhere showing no moral compunction for jumping into someone else's shoes who also now is jobless.
Not that we should blame him for that but nor should we sympathise. He knows the score and he knows the price of failure - another pay off and another job on the merry go round.
The truth is that Pressley had a good time in season one. He benefited from Sixfields due to having less scrutiny. He had a strong inherited set of players. The ones he signed, notably in defence were poor. Clarke Wilson and Moussa did carry him.
Tactically he was and remained poor. His interview style opened him up for ridicule and his man management of players often seemed unprofessional and inadequate.
Bottom line - he didn't deliver and ran out of the few ideas he had. He failed and all this bleeding heart approach from some posters misses the point.
Football managers benefit from the sack. Pressley gets paid off for failing to fulfil his brief and then gets paid again elsewhere showing no moral compunction for jumping into someone else's shoes who also now is jobless.
Not that we should blame him for that but nor should we sympathise. He knows the score and he knows the price of failure - another pay off and another job on the merry go round.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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His interviews were ridiculous, I think a lot of people losing the faith in him was because of his interviews after a poor performance. Football fans don't like to feel like there being made an idiot of or that someone is trying to pull the wool over there eyes and that is exactly what it seemed like he was doing. He'd have gotten more support near the end of his time here if he didn't keep insisting we were outstanding and was more honest in his interviews.
Otis
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His post match interviews made me doubt I was even there in the same stadium.
I'm convinced he will get a bit of a hard time, as his teams did produce some of the most inept, tepid, pointless performances we have seen in recent years.
Dull, dull, dull!
lifeskyblue
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Yes some of the post match interviews made me think we had watched a different game...mind you so did a lot of coleman's and a fair few of dowie's. I think he will do ok at fleetwood...far lower expectations than here. His teams have presented both good and awful football. So much depends on confidence and momentum. I hope after Saturday he does well at fleetwood
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LeamingtonBasedFan
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What is your point?
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Not sure I was looking to make a point but, clearly, you have one to make?
covcity4life
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good luck to SP this week, take a point for us!
LeamingtonBasedFan
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It was just a question - what is there at 02:30? Is there something that I cannot hear on an iphone?
ccfcway
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Pressley out of Fleetwood !
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp.../former-coventry-city-manager-steven-11664318
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp.../former-coventry-city-manager-steven-11664318
no_loyalty
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They want somebody to take the club in a different direction, my guess is that they are probably unimpressed with his new signings?
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Why does the Telegraph think people give a shit enough to lift a story from their Lancashire counterparts? Oh yeah ... cos it's lazy journalism!
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