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RE: Bielsa has just made himself public enemy number 1 at the big yellow skip .... - theo_luddite - 02-05-2019
I think you'll find Devon that Fat Sam turned us down without even being asked when Wagner left because he couldn't improve us defensively, it was our inability to score goals that he couldn't handle and said so. Our problem was, and always was under Wagner, that we didn't score enough goals. I've mentioned it on here many times.
Since Wagner left, and he had more than a slackhandfull of apologies after games from refs for their pisspoor decisions, none of which get you the points back, we've likely had more spankings under Siewert than we had under Wagner in a similar period, not that we didn't get any in The Chumpionship (Fulham twice for example) or in Wagner's 18 months in the Prima Donna League (6-1 at City on opening day this season), but we have at least ventured over the halfway line in some games. Something we had more or less forgotten how to do under Wagbo for much of last season and many games apart from November, strangely, when we somehow went unbeaten.
You don't score goals passing the ball to each other in your own half. Keeping clean sheets at best gets you a draw. Nobody ever won a League game by scoring 0 but we sure as hell lost plenty that 1 or 2 would have got us a share of or sometimes all 3 points.
Good luck to him a Schalke, if that's where he goes. He changed the way we played football overnight when he arrived to get us to eventually be the 20th best team in the Prima Donna League. He tried for about 10 games this season to make us more attacking than last season, but once the two upfront (rarely played together) made it plain they couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo between them, despite having more chances to do so than last season, he went into his defensive shell and tried to keep us in games for a last 10-15 minute push. Had we scored anything like the number of goals that those just above us have scored, who knows, we might have been going to Sarfamton next weekend (not this weekend) with something still to play for?
As an aside - we won the old 4th Division, many, many moons back under Mick Buxton. Without looking it up, our defense shipped 60 odd goals that season from what I recall, which was probably the most among the top 4 clubs that went up and a good further few below us too, but our strikers bagged over 100. 20 scored so far this season, 28 last season. How does investing in defenders improve that record? Yeah, we've conceded more too, but that happens when you've a blunt instrument up front that doesn't stop the ball coming back at your defense.
Fresh faces next season, whoever is in charge, that have mostly lost (or don't have) the losing mentality should see us improve that total in a big way.
Apart from that, what did the Romans ever do for us and isn't this supposed to be a L666s thread?
