The Ryan Lowe Thread!

It's called movement and variation, like what decent managers work on each day in training.

Long ball is fine as an option, but doing it 90% of the time is disgraceful at this level.

Lindsay and Storey aren't going to pass through the lines but they can play simple triangles as professional footballers, providing the midfielders and wing backs give them an easy option.

Everything about Lowe's system is lazy.
We saw last season what happens when a team passes and moves against us on numerous occasions. We just never learnt.
 
I'd say its the players he has that's the issue as soon as the majority of our players get the ball with any sort of space their lack of pace and 1v1 take on ability means Woodman is usually just getting the ball back.
Who is choosing to sign and then extend the contracts of many of these players? Peter says it's the manager's decision. Is he lying? (Again)

Our football is dire because the club has no footballing philosophy of if it's own. We allow Lowe to veer from extolling an attacking "brand" one year, to punting the ball upfield the next. Much like the Frankie head coach experiment.

It's all just... whatever.

Lowe is helped out by the club not caring about entertainment (Lowe serving up just 20 home goals in 2022/23 clarified that).

1000's of fans are only coming on cos it's cheap, not because they see any progress. And to top it off we have Craig talking about how much he cares, whilst he's got Kathryn's fist up his ass.

They are building nothing here but an apathetic, depressing waiting room for the lower leagues.
 
Who is choosing to sign and then extend the contracts of many of these players? Peter says it's the manager's decision. Is he lying? (Again)

Our football is dire because the club has no footballing philosophy of if it's own. We allow Lowe to veer from extolling an attacking "brand" one year, to punting the ball upfield the next. Much like the Frankie head coach experiment.

It's all just... whatever.

Lowe is helped out by the club not caring about entertainment (Lowe serving up just 20 home goals in 2022/23 clarified that).

1000's of fans are only coming on cos it's cheap, not because they see any progress. And to top it off we have Craig talking about how much he cares, whilst he's got Kathryn's fist up his ass.

They are building nothing here but an apathetic, depressing waiting room for the lower leagues.

Probably we all know PR loves a bit of blame deflection and extending Storey and Hughes just looks so meh doesn't it don't mind it if either become backup after the summer but like the clear urn on my mantelpiece, remains to be seen. Neither good enough for different reasons to be regulars in a promotion aspiring team or one that wants to play attractive football like we've just heard in the statement.

I will be renewing this season but that's because of the habit and my love for North End not due to the excitement of what will or won't happen will the club change that this summer with some frenzied activity? We shall see.
 
It's called movement and variation, like what decent managers work on each day in training.

Long ball is fine as an option, but doing it 90% of the time is disgraceful at this level.

Lindsay and Storey aren't going to pass through the lines but they can play simple triangles as professional footballers, providing the midfielders and wing backs give them an easy option.

Everything about Lowe's system is lazy.
This on the edge of our own box is just a disaster waiting to happen.

I do agree we should be playing better stuff than we are seeing, but you have to play to your strengths (which we don't) and mitigate the risks (which we try to by sticking everyone behind the ball, but still are shit at the back).

I hate Lowe, and want him sacked, but if we actually had defenders that were decent on the ball, I'm sure we'd see more short goal kicks. Like we did whenever Bambo or Sepp played.
 
Now you're talking. The good old days. I wonder if they would flourish in RL's 'system'?

More to the point, with those two either side, in my opinion there would be far less criticism of Lindsay and Storey as the central pair (and I have been one of Lindsay's biggest critics in the past)

With two very competent fullbacks there's no need for a central defender to be dragged out wide in to a more vulnerable position.

The young Lindsay and Storey we had under Neil "couldn't" play in a back four, but with 100 or so Championship games now under their belt the have plenty of experience and awareness to cope now.
 
Yeah, they were so far above the defenders at that level, why not. With DJ picking up any loose balls.

In the Championship, we tried to look after the ball a bit better. Kilkenny was instrumental in that and very underrated.

I wouldn’t say instrumental. He only played 13 games for us starting 6 of them. It was Gallagher moving position that really changed the way we played.
 
I wouldn’t say instrumental. He only played 13 games for us starting 6 of them. It was Gallagher moving position that really changed the way we played.
Maybe mixing up games with our promotion season. Could have sworn he played more than that. Remember him hitting a screamer against Bristol City.

But yeah, Whiteman isn't a patch on Gallagher in any department really.
 
Maybe mixing up games with our promotion season. Could have sworn he played more than that. Remember him hitting a screamer against Bristol City.

But yeah, Whiteman isn't a patch on Gallagher in any department really.
Yeah he was definitely instrumental in them play off games. Yeah I remember that game. Bristol city battered us for the majority of it and Pickford pulled off a couple of a his usual worldie saves.
 
Goal kicks have absolutely nothing to do with Freddie holding onto the ball too long.

90% of our goal kicks this season were launched over 40+ yards or more. Average length: 62 yards.

When Woodman was at Swansea for two seasons he only launched 53% of his goal kicks. Average length: 40 yards.

When we signed Woodman, lowe actually said "His attributes are playing out from the back and his goal saving of course". Erm... only if you attempt to play out from the back Ryan.

Looking at the squad as a whole we attempted more long passes than any other team in the division. We just need to accept we are at our core a long ball team.

Apart from launched passes we also match up closely to L1 bound Rotherham in key statistical areas: expected goals, progressive carries, total number of shots & completed passes.

To be fair I felt woodman was brought in with the intention of trying to play out from the back. We did that quite a bit last season. But our defenders were so slow that style of playing changed to a more Wimbledon type style this season instead.

We must have given about four or five goals away trying to play out from the back last season.
 
We launch it long because our defenders are poor with the ball at their feet, and our only plan is hoof it for Potts to try and win a header and gain a foothold up the pitch.

Hope that helps.
And yet instead of trying to improve the defensive and signing players who can pass a ball and play out from the back we give them contract extensions
 
To be fair I felt woodman was brought in with the intention of trying to play out from the back. We did that quite a bit last season. But our defenders were so slow that style of playing changed to a more Wimbledon type style this season instead.

We must have given about four or five goals away trying to play out from the back last season.
When Lowe brought Woodman here it was with the understanding that we'd be playing out from the back. That was the brand fans were sold too.

But this is the problem when your recruitment doesn't align to the style of play or formation. You end up with centrebacks who can't control a pass and no proper wingbacks. You end up hitting long balls to strikers who aren't target men.

This comes down to a lack of footballing philosophy at the club that could be a constant, no matter who is manager.
 
Norwich have just sacked their manager after defeat in the play-off semi-finals. That us what you call ruthless. How long would RL survive somewhere like that?
 
Norwich have just sacked their manager after defeat in the play-off semi-finals. That us what you call ruthless. How long would RL survive somewhere like that?

They’ll want a young coach in. Make no mistake they’ll be unbelievably pi$$ed off that Ipswich have gone straight past them.
 
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