Warwickhunt
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All it takes is for every player to concentrate for the entire game and we will win! How many games have we lost due to our players errors rather than good football moves which carved us open?
There were plenty that got blocked by a defender, often because the player wanted one extra touch to get off the perfect shot. That's partly confidence, partly technique, partly... lower league.The thing is, were there really actually 19 chances on goal?
Aside from Bakas 2, the goal, Sterling, Shipley's at the keeper was there actually that many that didnt get blocked before they even got in the box.
The thing is, were there really actually 19 chances on goal?
Aside from Bakas 2, the goal, Sterling, Shipley's at the keeper was there actually that many that didnt get blocked before they even got in the box.
I would be more concerned it we werent actually creating chances. The fact or the matter is we are.The stats say there were 21 shots on goal, 6 on target, throughout the entire game from a City perspective. I previously failed to take into account the goal, that's my bad.
Whether it was Baka's two chances, Shipley's chance, or generally just being in and around the box and having efforts blocked by defenders, we need a striker who is ice cold in that situation, something right now we don't posses.
Speaking of strikers that we do posses, I do wonder if Ponticelli would fit in our system? Yes he might not have the pace Chaplin does and he might not be the target man like JCH was, but as a natural finisher I would say JP is probably the best we have, albeit he is injured right now, could he be the answer?
I really don't get all this 'if he doesn't mount a promotion challenge next season he should go' either.
The stats say there were 21 shots on goal, 6 on target, throughout the entire game from a City perspective. I previously failed to take into account the goal, that's my bad.
Whether it was Baka's two chances, Shipley's chance, or generally just being in and around the box and having efforts blocked by defenders, we need a striker who is ice cold in that situation, something right now we don't posses.
Speaking of strikers that we do posses, I do wonder if Ponticelli would fit in our system? Yes he might not have the pace Chaplin does and he might not be the target man like JCH was, but as a natural finisher I would say JP is probably the best we have, albeit he is injured right now, could he be the answer?
So Paul Tisdale should have been sacked for all those seasons Exeter didn't win promotion?I disagree, as a manager Robins needs to find solutions to the problem.
Ponticelli would have scored a few in recent weeks if he'd have had the same chances we've been having. Hopefully he can get back to full fitness soon and get a chance. If not I suspect he'll be off.
So Paul Tisdale should have been sacked for all those seasons Exeter didn't win promotion?
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So Paul Tisdale should have been sacked for all those seasons Exeter didn't win promotion?
The natural conclusion is Robins should be sacked if we don't win the Champions' League. You can aim as high as possible while mixing it with a dose of realism, and accepting that any manager we get in has the same constraints, so to continually change for the sake of change ignores the problem.
Ponticelli also missed a few sitters last season.
Which is kind of the point. Expectation has to be reprogrammed with realism.His downfall was expectation caught up with him in the end
Normally managers have a natural 'expiry date', I think Robins will be OK this year unless we flirt too closely with relegation.
Next season he really has to deliver a play-off place at the very least.
Without attempting to be sarcastic every striker does, I’m not expecting JP to score every time he strikes for goal, but I think if you put JP in Baka’s position on Saturday he scores both, if you put JP in Chaplin’s position against Blackpool he scores.
Time to press ignore on Grendel before I slit my wrists. Don’t think you ever have something positive to say about the club or any of our players
Absolutely, how many of those so called chances were drilled into the legs of a defender 3 yards away ?The thing is, were there really actually 19 chances on goal?
Aside from Bakas 2, the goal, Sterling, Shipley's at the keeper was there actually that many that didnt get blocked before they even got in the box.
Time to press ignore on Grendel before I slit my wrists. Don’t think you ever have something positive to say about the club or any of our players
Absolutely, how many of those so called chances were drilled into the legs of a defender 3 yards away ?
Maybe thus far I've picked poor matches to watch live, Scunthorpe lost 2-1, Plymouth won 1-0, Portsmouth lost 0-1, Luton lost 1-2 { Missed our goal due to being fecking freezing and heading off} Gillingham drew 1-1........4 goals in 5 matches, 2 of those penalties. Meh !
I wish I had !You should have gone to Bradford with me
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The difference being they are dining at the very top table and for every Aguero there is a Santa-Cruz or Jo or Robinho (I'm sure many other that I can't recall) - the difference being they can afford to write off bad signings providing they find good ones too. We need to be 100% certain and it's not that easy, especially if you're not offering huge salaries etc.
Also different pressures - the managers at those clubs also lose their jobs despite much greater success than a L2 play off victory.
I really don't get all this 'if he doesn't mount a promotion challenge next season he should go' either. The club's a basket case, it's horrendously mismanaged from the top, and structurally any success we get is despite of that, not because of it. All a manager can do is progress... whatever form that takes. The only concern I have with Robins is the reliance on loan players that's sneaked in recently - that doesn't bode overly well for next season and developing. Overall however we're building a club, we're imposing a style of play that's a club identity (and let's not forget that lower league players can well be lower league because they can't act on instruction as quickly as higher league ones!)
We have no right to be higher and, of course, we'd all like to be higher - I'm sure Robins would love to be taking part in the Champions' League himself! But there's got to be a certain pragmatism with that as well. If it's so easy to establish a club while the base is ripped out of it, then Nilsson, McAllister, Reid, Adams, Dowie, Coleman, Boothroyd, Thorn, Pressley, Mowbray, Venus, Slade would have all done it by now.
Without attempting to be sarcastic every striker does, I’m not expecting JP to score every time he strikes for goal, but I think if you put JP in Baka’s position on Saturday he scores both, if you put JP in Chaplin’s position against Blackpool he scores.
With the 4 striking acquisitions last summer we’d all agree he’s got 0/4 and has already shipped 1 out. That’s criminal considering we paid fees for 3 of them and had ample time to identify replacements for McNulty. And we’re not talking Aguero here, we’re talking someone who can put away complete sitters.
Teams face us knowing if they score just once they won’t lose.
Apart from Charlton (twice), Oxford, Southend, Bradford, Doncaster you're spot on
Absolutely rightI really don't get all this 'if he doesn't mount a promotion challenge next season he should go' either. The club's a basket case, it's horrendously mismanaged from the top, and structurally any success we get is despite of that, not because of it. All a manager can do is progress... whatever form that takes. The only concern I have with Robins is the reliance on loan players that's sneaked in recently - that doesn't bode overly well for next season and developing. Overall however we're building a club, we're imposing a style of play that's a club identity (and let's not forget that lower league players can well be lower league because they can't act on instruction as quickly as higher league ones!)
We have no right to be higher and, of course, we'd all like to be higher - I'm sure Robins would love to be taking part in the Champions' League himself! But there's got to be a certain pragmatism with that as well. If it's so easy to establish a club while the base is ripped out of it, then Nilsson, McAllister, Reid, Adams, Dowie, Coleman, Boothroyd, Thorn, Pressley, Mowbray, Venus, Slade would have all done it by now.
He signed Eastwood on a huge contract - total clown
'Terrible' doesn't hardly begin to do him justice.I agree. He had one of the best teams in the league at his disposal and we finished 17th. He’s a terrible manager.
The buck stops with the manager, you have to draw the line somewhere, he gets paid to win football matches, so therefore I would give him another three games to turn it around.
ALternatively, he's more flexible with changing things than it's made out...
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