18-05-2022, 20:31
(This post was last modified: 18-05-2022, 20:36 by theo_luddite.)
In my opinion Devon - Carlos would have learned a lot from Bielzebub, but Bielzebub seemed to have Plan A and only a Plan A. It was a bloody good Plan A I'll give him that, but when injuries kicked in Plan A didn't work because while everyone had a job to do and knew their job well, he didn't have enough players in the squad to replace them when they got top players injured - so they didn't know the other blokes job either.
Now, Carlos was pretty much the same last season. Just as it looked like he'd got things going, we got a load of injuries over Xmas/New Year and everything went pear shaped for a long while until the injuries cleared up. Our defence was a shambles, our attack was mediocre and we relied on 3 players to score, nobody reached double figures.
This season he's had multiple plans and multiple players that know each others job not just their own. He switches it round more in a game than many that called him a one trick pony last season would ever believe (he played the cards he was dealt at the time). Had it been perfect this season we'd have been in the top 2, but I'll take 3rd all day long in a division where anyone in the bottom 4 can beat at least one of the top 6 (sometimes home and away) for no apparent reason related to form, injuries, money or anything else that makes any sense.
He's a lot to learn and IF we go up he'll have a lot more to learn very quickly. While Bielzebub went up with an expensive Championship squad assembled to get promotion and then improved some more to stay up - once again we've a squad assembled to hopefully go from bottom 3rd to middle 3rd and we've actually finished up 3rd and in the play-off final.
Thing is if (like Peru) you either keep the ball off the opposition, or you beat them for speed on the break and you play to your strengths and can stop the oppo playing to theirs, you'll win more than you lose - as long as you take your chances when they arise.
(Cough) Arsenal!
PS good luck against Halifax but I've told you before where my loyalty lies on that one.
Now, Carlos was pretty much the same last season. Just as it looked like he'd got things going, we got a load of injuries over Xmas/New Year and everything went pear shaped for a long while until the injuries cleared up. Our defence was a shambles, our attack was mediocre and we relied on 3 players to score, nobody reached double figures.
This season he's had multiple plans and multiple players that know each others job not just their own. He switches it round more in a game than many that called him a one trick pony last season would ever believe (he played the cards he was dealt at the time). Had it been perfect this season we'd have been in the top 2, but I'll take 3rd all day long in a division where anyone in the bottom 4 can beat at least one of the top 6 (sometimes home and away) for no apparent reason related to form, injuries, money or anything else that makes any sense.
He's a lot to learn and IF we go up he'll have a lot more to learn very quickly. While Bielzebub went up with an expensive Championship squad assembled to get promotion and then improved some more to stay up - once again we've a squad assembled to hopefully go from bottom 3rd to middle 3rd and we've actually finished up 3rd and in the play-off final.
Thing is if (like Peru) you either keep the ball off the opposition, or you beat them for speed on the break and you play to your strengths and can stop the oppo playing to theirs, you'll win more than you lose - as long as you take your chances when they arise.
(Cough) Arsenal!
PS good luck against Halifax but I've told you before where my loyalty lies on that one.
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