Would you have hit the panic button had you been Mike Ashley a few weeks back?
I know everyone is frustrated but I fail to see changing managers is the answer. Brendan Rogers is finding it difficult after Suarez and the same can be said for the championship player of the month (Wilson) leaving us....it will take time.
Molding a team of youngsters will take time. Ryan Haynes has been sensational and then average and that's what Pressley has to work with and of course the dreaded loan market. I still have confidence in him to get it right. This league is the poorest for some time and there is plenty of games to mount a play off challenge yet.
The armchair lot are clamouring for him to go so for that reason I hope he stays.
It is admittedly difficult to make a case for him but yesterday he was let down by a bunch of players who couldn't give two fucks.
I hope this new low is the line in the sand we need.
Yes he needs to go and here's why:
1. Formations
Close season before last he sells McDonald because he will be playing 451 and won't need him, he then decides to switch to a 442 in which McDonald would have been very useful cover. He does later admit that this was an error to be fair but he does not replace him leaving us desperately short of cover after Clarke's departure.
Last close season he signs Swanson, O'brien and Coulibaly, all wingers, to play in his established 442. He then has his little World Cup Head Storm and switches to 352 leaving us with the wrong personel. The idea that you can play this system without proper wing backs is astonishing in itself.
After a disastrous start to the season he meekly switches back to 442 with hardly a mention!
2. Post-Match Interviews.
Just ridiculous. Full of superlatives and praise after abysmal performances to the point of farce. How can he be taken seriously?
3. Signings.
It does seem that he wouldn't know a player if he was beaten around the face and neck with one. Terrible record. Always banging on about DNA, it seems the required DNA for CCFC is somewhere around the bottom of the genetic barrel.
4. Loans
SP doesn't like loans, he told us so in no uncertain terms quite early in his tenure. We currently have 7.
5. Keepers.
It's plain for all to see that we have a problem here. But instead of bringing in an experienced keeper to steady the ship, SP signs a 7th striker.
6. The dressing room.
There are now indications that he has lost it.
The man is far too flakey for me, changes his mind with the wind, no constant philosophy, always carries an unbalanced squad and frankly I agree with Jordan Clarke, he doesn't know what he's doing and very much appears to be making it up as he goes along.
Please don't tell me he gives youth a chance... firstly, he has little option and secondly that is more to do with club policy than managerial decision making, the club sets the remit, the manager implements.
Bottom line: Not good enough and should go.
7% battery? Living on the edge.
Really? What a joke..
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I reckon we should give the job to a sky blues talk poster.
Most of you seem adamant enough and confident enough in your own thoughts about what we can do to change it, amazed you're not all professional football managers.
Really Robo, would you say if things are still the at Christmas you might get on board with the sack Pressley campaign?
I like everyone else would love some stability at the club mate but at what price? If Pressley isn't good enough then he has to go. He has had long enough now to at least imprint some of his DNA (as the dick calls it) onto this team but the problem is he keeps chopping and changing so much it's impossible and it seems to me that each new signing/loan/free is as bad if not worse than the last and his tactics are complete bollocks. You know me and I am passionate about my club and I bet I could walk into that dressing room and pick a team to play 4-4-2 and I would get them playing for the shirt they should be proud to wear, which he seems completely unable to do. If he has lost the dressing room then there literally is no hope for him or the team. Sadly, with Sisu and Pressley in tandem then I think we are going to go a lot lower yet because how many lines in the sand do we need before we run out of beach (do you like what I did there).
Fair points mate and nice turn of phrase.
There is something I like about Pressley and I think he has been dealt a terrible hand. I must admit I'm usually first to get on the manager out bandwagon but this time I can't see how sacking him would work.
I reckon we should give the job to a sky blues talk poster.
Most of you seem adamant enough and confident enough in your own thoughts about what we can do to change it, amazed you're not all professional football managers.
Most on here seem content to have grey clouds over their day on a regular basis with the ability to accept a ray of sunshine when it comes before returning to cloud cover.
If we win a couple in a row how many will still maintain the grey cloud over their heads consistently?
Pressley is useless and does not know football is a ridiculous thing to say.
Grendel I can't see what anyone other than Pardew could bring to Newcastle? They have achieved what they should for the most part. If anything the media think they are a bigger club than they are.
Rodgers has done remarkably well and currently has issues but I don't see why his job is threatened?
For once Grendel I'm in disagreement with you!
The point I was making is that Pardew has suffered chants from the fans that he "did not know what he was doing"? Well can those same fans claim that now? Surely not?
I'm not saying he is the best manager for Newcastle, who knows but he has answered his critics big time, has he not?
I personally think Pressley will do the same. Why? Because I've listened to him since he got here and I like the man and his approach to the task laid before him under extremely difficult circumstances which I can't recall any other manager having. The last man we had jump ship soon as he could and how did that turn out for him?
The point I was making is that Pardew has suffered chants from the fans that he "did not know what he was doing"? Well can those same fans claim that now? Surely not?
I'm not saying he is the best manager for Newcastle, who knows but he has answered his critics big time, has he not?
I personally think Pressley will do the same. Why? Because I've listened to him since he got here and I like the man and his approach to the task laid before him under extremely difficult circumstances which I can't recall any other manager having. The last man we had jump ship soon as he could and how did that turn out for him?
Brilliant. Can we keep you?
Why don't you just fuck off, pal? You're a rancid little troll, a nobody who wants to be somebody, but he enjoys negative attention too much.
Personally, I don't give a monkeys dollop if I'm popular or not, I have a set of opinions and principles that I try to enforce if possible.
You are merely a twat behind a keyboard, nothing more.
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