2/10 is too poor a record for it to be coincidental, imo.
Someone actually asked him the question once around a year ago regarding the same thing, and he just brushed it off.
That was me, they looked absolutely dead on their feet in the last 15 minsTotally agree with this, and we usually play shit as well. Someone mentioned earlier that we looked knackered. That is one thing we surely shouldn’t look after a 2 week break.
It's a strange record for an exceptional manager who is so thorough in his preparations for games. I would have expected the longer we have to prepare for a game under him, the better our results would be.2/10 is too poor a record for it to be coincidental, imo.
Someone actually asked him the question once around a year ago regarding the same thing, and he just brushed it off.
It's a strange record for an exceptional manager who is so thorough in his preparations for games. I would have expected the longer we have to prepare for a game under him, the better our results would be.
Perhaps the players are given too much time off in the 1st week, and it takes a while to find our rhythm again?
There is one at the end of March as well.There’s another international break next month, then no more for the rest of the season.
That’s fine we’ll be champions by thenThere is one at the end of March as well.
Gaffer said, according to iFollow, he wasn't sure what to expect from a Mark Bowen managed side. That and, as you say, recovering the rhythm cost us big time.
I wasn’t aware of that. I thought the last two qualifiers were next month. Is the one in March for pre-tournament friendlies?There is one at the end of March as well.
I like the attention to detail that AN gives his players about the opposition, but I’d prefer us to play on the oppositions weaknesses rather than try to annul their strengths. IF he was unsure about Bowen’s tactics he should have gone for broke today and shown them how good we are. The table doesn’t lie. Before today’s game, we were in the top 3 and they were in the bottom 3. AN has got his tactics spot on quite a few times this season but he missed a trick today imo.
As the saying goes, one swallow doesn’t make a summer. Stoke are where they are because they have consistently not been good enough. If they continue to improve they may finish up mid table and because of how shit they were at the beginning of the season that will be where they deserve to end up.We're not winning games by being a fantastic side, we're winning them by tactically out-thinking them. We don't create that many chances. AN finds weaknesses to exploit and as such raises our team's level beyond the sum of its parts. There are precious few actual poor sides in this league- we can't play Wigan and Barnsley every week.
And yes, the table does lie, pretty often. Look at Stoke.
We're not winning games by being a fantastic side, we're winning them by tactically out-thinking them. We don't create that many chances. AN finds weaknesses to exploit and as such raises our team's level beyond the sum of its parts. There are precious few actual poor sides in this league- we can't play Wigan and Barnsley every week.
And yes, the table does lie, pretty often. Look at Stoke.